My Favorite Kind of Food...

...Comfort southern food!  Since the weather has been cooler and actually feeling like fall, I decided to make some comfort food.  I decided to make one of my favorites (which I had never actually made before), chicken fried chicken!  The breading was the best ever.  I served it with mashed potatoes and green beans.  It was delish!

Snap off the ends of the green beans and rinse.

Put crackers in a zip lock.

Use a rolling pin and crumble up the crackers.

Cracker crumbles

In one breading bowl, combine the crackers, flour, S&P, cheyenne pepper and baking powder.

In the other breading bowl, combine eggs and milk.

Whisk together.

The cracker combo.

Cover the chicken breasts in the cracker combo, then the eggs, then back in the crackers.

I used our iron skillet.  

Fry up the chicken!

Isn't the breading gorgeous?!

Make a white cream gravy in the iron skillet with the left over chicken bits.

Boil the green beans until slightly crispy.

When done, put in an ice bath.

Melt some butter and add garlic.

Saute the green beans so they can soak up the butter/garlic goodness.

YUM YUM YUM

Chicken Recipe:

4 chicken breasts, thinly cut
2 eggs
about 2 cups of milk
1 package Saltine crackers
about 1 1/2 C flour
a pinch of cheyenne pepper
a pinch of baking powder
S&P to taste
about 2 TBSP vegetable oil

Place the crackers in a zip lock bag and seal.  Take a rolling pin and crush the crackers into tiny pieces.
In breading pan, combine the eggs and milk and whisk together.  In another breading bowl combine the crackers, flour, cheyenne, baking powder, S&P.  Combine.

Next place the oil in a cask iron skillet and get it very hot.  Dredge the chicken in the cracker mixture and then dip in the milk mixture and back in the crackers.  Place in the hot skillet and fry on each side until golden brown.

Next, make a cream gravy however your little heart desires :)...in the same skillet of course to use all of the delicious pan drippings! Don't forget to drain some of the oil before.

I added milk, flour and more seasoning.