Baked Firecracker Chicken

When it's snowing in October I will find any reason to turn on the oven. Sunday meal prep for lunches this week...baked firecracker chicken. 

Ingredients:

1/2 cup hot sauce (I used Sriracha)

1/2 cup brown sugar

1 Tbsp soy sauce

1 Tbsp cider vinegar

1 Tbsp minced garlic

1 pinch red pepper flakes

1 Tbsp oil

1 pound boneless and skinless chicken breasts

Salt and pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Heat the hot sauce, sugar, soy sauce, vinegar, garlic and chili pepper flakes in a small sauce pan until the sugar has melted into the sauce.

Heat the oil in a large oven safe skillet over medium-high heat. Season the chicken with salt and pepper. Add to the pan and brown, about 3-5 minutes per side.

Transfer to oven safe dish. Pour 1/3 of the sauce over the chicken and bake until cooked, about 10-15 minutes, basting with the sauce every 5 minutes.

Enjoy with the remaining sauce!

Baked parmesan tilapia (Fareway recipe)

Review by Lyndee:

Ingredients:

4 filets tilapia

1 cup flour

1 large egg

¾ cup grated Parmesan cheese

2 tsp paprika

1 Tbsp fresh parsley

1 dash Salt

1 dash pepper

1 Medium lemon, cut into wedges (optional)

Directions

Preheat oven to 400F.  Place flour in shallow dish. Beat egg and place in a separate shallow dish.  Combine cheese, paprika and parsley in a shallow dish. Drizzle fish with olive or canola oil and dredge in flour, then egg, and then cheese mixture. Place on foil-lined baking sheet and bake until opaque about 10 to 12 minutes.  Serve with lemon wedges.

I love the crusted tilapia that they sell at the meat counter at Fareway so when I saw they posted this recipe I was super excited.  I followed the directions and it turned out magnificent! Next time I will try ¼ cup egg beaters instead of an egg to cut some fat and calories.  Also, I didn’t have lemon wedges so I just sprinkled some lemon juice on the filets.  So yummy!!

Servings: Makes 4 servings  Total prep time: 20 minutes

Nutrition information per serving:  252 calories; 13 g fat; 5 g saturated; 74 mg cholesterol; 344 mg sodium; 1 g carbohydrate; 0 g fiber; 33 g protein