Mom's Baked Soda Cracker Chicken
 
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Buttery cracker breaded chicken cooked to tender perfection. Comfort food that Mom used to make for Sunday Dinner.
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Recipe type: Dinner
Ingredients
  • 4-5 pounds of bone-in chicken drumsticks, thighs, breast, or a combination of all three. I prefer to take the skin off, but if you like skin, you could leave it on.
  • 1 sleeve of soda crackers (approx 40-45 crackers)
  • ½ cup butter, melted
  • salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
  1. Put crackers into a large Ziploc bag and crush them with a rolling pin.
  2. Add salt and pepper to taste. (approx ½-3/4 tsp salt and ¼ tsp pepper
  3. Set up a dipping station with a bowl of melted butter, a bag of crushed soda crackers, and a large cookie sheet to place the dipped pieces on for baking.
  4. Take the first piece of chicken and dip it in melted butter, then shake it in the crushed crackers. Place it on the cookie sheet. Repeat steps with each piece of chicken
  5. Bake chicken for 2 hours at 350 degrees. (Remember if using boneless chicken you will only need to cook it for 75-90 minutes.)
  6. Once chicken is cooked you can make gravy if you desire. Remove the chicken from the baking pan and pour a couple of cups of water onto the pan. Use a spatula to scrap all the drippings off the pan. These give lots of great flavor to the gravy. Once you have all the drippings scraped up, carefully pour the liquid into a saucepan. Add a little more water if you want to make more than two cups of gravy. Check the flavor to see if it is strong enough. If not add some chicken bullion or salt to taste.
  7. Bring it to a boil and then combine 2-3 tbsp of cornstarch or ¼-1/3 cup of flour (depending on how much gravy you are making) with about ⅓-1/2 cup water, whisk it to get out lumps and then slowly whisk it into the boiling gravy liquid. It should thicken, If you want it a little thicker add a little more. If you are using flour, once you have it to the thickness you prefer, it will need to simmer for about 10 minutes to get the starch-y taste out and will need to be stirred often.
  8. Serve chicken and gravy with steamed veggies and mashed potatoes or steamed rice.
Recipe by Real Life Dinner at https://reallifedinner.com/moms-baked-soda-cracker-chicken/