If you’ve ever bitten into a dry, bland piece of chicken and wished for a more flavorful and succulent experience, then the secret to culinary bliss might just lie in a simple yet transformative technique: brining. Picture tender, juicy meat infused with flavors with every bite. Brining isn’t just reserved for chefs or food connoisseurs; it’s a kitchen hack that elevates even the most humble chicken dish to gourmet status. Prepare to revolutionize your cooking game and impress even the most discerning palates with this age-old method that promises nothing short of poultry perfection.

1. Oven-safe frying pan

1. Chicken Breasts
2. Salt
3. Brown Sugar
4. Eggs
5. Bread Crumbs
6. Garlic
7. Oil
8. Water

Directions for Brine Chicken

Place your chicken into a bag or sealable container.

Mix brown sugar, salt, and water until dissolved. We like to heat a little water to help dissolve the sugar and salt, then add it to a lot of cold water. We don’t want to cook the chicken, so make sure the brine is cold. Add the brine to the bag.

Let the chicken brine for at least an hour in the refrigerator. When you take them out and drain them, you should see that they are plumped up. Wash them off and they are ready for whatever. You’ve made brine chicken!

Ours is going to be breaded. Whisk the eggs in a bowl and set out a plate with bread crumbs.

Get some oil in a pan and add in the garlic to give it some flavor. Or in our house, add garlic until it makes you happy.

Fry the chicken in the garlic-flavored oil. Yum!

We aren’t really looking to cook the chicken here. We just want to make it look nice and golden.

Throw the whole thing in the oven and cook until the chicken is done.

We enjoyed ours with noodles and, our favorite, broccoli.

Until next time,
Hubby

Brine Chicken

Chicken brined and breaded.

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Course Main Course

Cuisine American

Equipment

• 1 Oven-safe frying pan

Ingredients

  

Brine

• 2 Chicken Breasts
• ¼ cup salt
• ¼ cup brown sugar

Breading

• 2 eggs
• 2 cloves chopped garlic
• 1 cup bread crumbs
• 2 tsp oil

Instructions

 

• Add salt and brown sugar to 2 cups of water.
• Boil water until salt and sugar dissolve.
• Add 6 cups of cold water. Make sure that the brine mixture is cold.
• Add chicken to the brine and allow it sit for at least 1 hour in the refridgerator.
• Remove chicken from brine and rinse.
• Scramble eggs in a bowl and put bread crumbs on a plate.
• Dip chicken in eggs and cover with bread crumbs.
• Heat oil with garlic and add breaded chicken to pan.
• Cook on both sides until golden.
• Cook the rest of the way in the oven at 450℉

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