Show us Your Life... Main Dish Recipes

Paula Deen's Oven Fried Chicken

Today, I am participating in Kelly's Korner Link Party "Show us Your Life: Main Dish Recipes". This is by far our favorite Chicken recipe and I love to make it! We made it for the first last year on Valentine's Day with Macaroni and Cheese and Lemon Asparagus;

it was D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S!

Ingredients
2 cups Panko bread crumbs
1 cup grated Parmesan
4 tablespoons olive oil, divided
2 tablespoons freshly minced thyme leaves
Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
1/4 cup Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons water
2 1/2 pounds boneless skinless chicken breasts, pounded to 1/4 -inch thickness

Directions
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Line a baking sheet with heavy-duty aluminum foil. Place a cooling rack over pan and spray rack with nonstick cooking spray. In a shallow dish, combine bread crumbs, cheese, 2 tablespoons olive oil, thyme, salt and pepper, to taste. In a separate shallow dish, combine mustard, water, salt and pepper, to taste, and remaining olive oil. Coat each chicken breast with mustard mixture; dredge each in bread crumb mixture. Place on prepared rack in pan. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until chicken is golden brown. Serve immediately.

recipe from Food Network