Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, pepita chicken. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook pepita chicken using 10 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Pepita chicken:
- Make ready 1 small onion
- Take 6 Tomatillos
- Get 1 bunch cilantro
- Prepare 2 eggs
- Get 1/2 cup cornmeal
- Make ready 1 cup chicken stock
- Make ready 3/4 cup pepitas (roasted pumpkin seeds)
- Prepare 2 clove garlic
- Get 4 thawed chicken breasts
- Take 2 tbsp olive oil
Learn more about these flavorful seeds and how they can add crunch to your cooking. Pepitas, or roasted pumpkin seeds, are a delicious seasonal snack. Unlike sunflower seeds, whose outer shell you must remove before eating, you can just pop 'em in your mouth and eat 'em whole. Dip chicken into the eggs and then the flour mixture, back to the eggs and then into the pepita/panko mix to coat.
Instructions to make Pepita chicken:
- Peel and quarter Tomatillos
- quarter onion
- add following ingredients to a blender
- Tomatillos, onions, 1/2 bunch of cilantro, 1/2 cup pepitas, chicken stock, garlic
- blend until smooth
- put in pan heat until reduced by half
- beat eggs, put in shallow dish, put cornmeal in shallow dish
- dredge chicken in egg then cornmeal
- add oil to medium skillet, heat medium high.
- cook chicken until golden brown and meat thermometer reads 160
- place chicken on serving dish, pour sauce over the top. use remaining cilantro and pepitas to garnish
Spray baking sheet with cooking spray and place chicken on top. NOTE The coated chicken WILL cook VERY quickly and is best to use caution to lower the heat than to have it burn. Pepitas are pumpkin seeds that don't require shelling. A good source of healthy fats and fatty acids, the edible seeds What are pepitas, really? And are they any different from regular ol' pumpkin seeds?
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