Tender, juicy chicken coated in a crunchy cornflake crust. It’s hard to not love my Healthy Oven Baked Cornflake Crusted Chicken! Set in a brine including light buttermilk and dill pickle juice for a minimum of one hour–this healthy chicken recipe is bursting with flavor. The cornflake crust gives us that golden crispy exterior we crave. Serve this alongside a vegetable and starch for a well-rounded meal the whole family will love. Better yet? Opt to serve this cornflake crusted chicken on a potato roll with pickles, cheese and lettuce for a mouthwatering sandwich you’ll crave.
What you will need to make this Healthy Oven Baked Cornflake Crusted Chicken
For the brine you will need:
- Light buttermilk
- Dill pickle juice
- Onion powder
- Garlic powder
- Cayenne pepper
For the breading you will need:
- All purpose flour
- Garlic powder
- Onion powder
- Kosher salt
- Cayenne pepper
- Cornflakes
- Non-stick cooking spray
When it comes to equipment you need to make this recipe–I’ve kept it simple:
- Sheet pan
- Wire rack
- Tinfoil
How to make this Healthy Oven Baked Cornflake Crusted Chicken
To start, combine your brine ingredients. Submerge the chicken breasts in the brine for a minimum of one hour. You can let it sit all day–the longer the better!
When you’re ready to cook, preheat your oven to 400F and line a baking sheet with foil.
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How to serve this Cornflake Crusted Chicken
This chicken recipe pairs great with smashed or mashed potatoes and a vegetable. I recommend trying my Easy Smashed Potatoes or Golden Hasselback Potatoes with this recipe. If chicken sandwiches are more your speed (Hello, Lightened-Up Nashville Hot Chicken Sandwich!) serve these crunchy, juicy chicken breast pieces on a soft potato roll with cheese, pickles and lettuce. Chicken sandwiches and French fries are a match-made-in-heaven. You really can’t go wrong.
Cornflake Crusted Chicken Tenders
If you love cornflake crusted chicken, I hope you’ve tried my Cornflake Crusted Chicken Tenders with Honey Mustard! These chicken tenders can be made in the air fryer or convection oven. I’ve included instructions for both methods in the recipe.The homemade honey mustard is delicious and made with just three ingredients. I love serving these chicken tenders on top of a salad for a healthy protein-packed meal.
Healthy Oven Baked Cornflake Crusted Chicken
Equipment
- sheet pan fitted with wire rack
Ingredients
- 1.5 lbs chicken breast, sliced into 6 pieces
Brine
- 1 cup light buttermilk
- 1/2 cup dill pickle juice
- 2 tsp onion powder
- 2 tsp garlic powder
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
Breading
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 tsp garlic powder
- 2 tsp onion powder
- 1 tsp kosher salt
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
- 5 oz cornflakes, crushed
- non-stick cooking spray
Instructions
- Combine the brine ingredients and submerge the chicken breasts in the brine for a minimum of 1 hour, up to all day (the longer the better).
- When ready to cook, preheat the oven to 400F and line a baking sheet with foil.
- Top the baking sheet with a wire rack sprayed with cooking spray. Prepare the breading station.
- Add the garlic powder, onion powder, kosher salt and cayenne to the flour in a shallow bowl.
- Crush the cornflakes and pour them into a different shallow bowl.
- Remove the chicken breasts from the brine, wiping off any excess brine, and set the brine aside.
- Dredge the chicken breasts in the flour mixture to coat on all sides.
- Next, dip the floured chicken breasts into the reserved brine, and then coat them in the cornflakes.
- Arrange the coated chicken breasts on the wire rack and spray with more cooking spray. Bake for 40 minutes or until cooked to 165F.
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Try one of my other popular chicken recipes!
- Healthy Air Fried Asian Glazed Chicken Burgers with Slaw
- Air Fried Pecan Crusted Chicken with Maple Honey Mustard
- Herby Panko Crusted Chicken Tenders
- Air Fried Chicken Cutlets
- Blazing Buffalo Chicken Tenders
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Can you freeze this? Can’t wait to try it !
This was the BEST crispy chicken! We put them on a Martin potato roll that we toasted in the cast iron grill and topped the chicken with lettuce and Chick-fil-A sauce! My son used hot sauce! EVERYONE raved about the crunch and flavor! The next. day we are still talking about how great they were! Make them, yiu won’t be disappointed!!!
These are awesome! Definitely going in the rotation.
This was crunchy and delicious and so easy to make! It turned out just like the recipe photos and definitely satisfied that ‘fried’ chicken sandwich craving!
Do you refrigerate the chicken once in brine?
Or on counter? Wasn’t sure safe that way!!??
Do you refrigerate chicken once in the brine?
Yes chicken and milk need to stay cold or it goes bad.
This recipe was much easier to make than I expected it to be! Sooo delicious, perfectly cooked chicken and made it a sandwich like Steph suggested. Will make again (and again!)
This way by far the best oven-baked crispy chicken recipe I have ever tried. I am sorry to use the M word as I know it icks some people out, but I can’t get over how moist this chicken stayed! And it was super easy. This will be my new go-to. Thank you!!
Delicious!! So many great recipes!
This chicken recipe is insanely good. I just meal prepped it for the second week in a row; have been making sandwiche/wraps or topping salads with the chicken. It satisfies the friend chicken craving but is even better. Not to mention, super easy to make! Thank you!!
this is one of my favorite meals to make!!! The chicken is so delicious!
These are so delicious! My entire family enjoyed them. I doubled the recipe and am excited to have leftovers tomorrow.
This is absolutely fabulous … I don’t know why I waited so long to try this recipe as all of Steph’s are great. Love the specificity of 5 oz. cornflakes and 1/4 c. flour as there was very little waste. Suggestions: 1) I Watch carefully while baking the 6 breaded slices as they were crispy crunchy and already over 17o° after only 30 min.; and 2) Stir the brine while soaking the chicken and while dipping it during the breading process, to make sure the spices haven’t sunk to the bottom of the liquid. Great recipe!
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