Pecan Chicken
Recipe: #12281
March 18, 2014
Categories: Chicken, Pecan, Sunday Dinner Oven Bake, Gluten-Free, No Eggs, Boneless Pieces, Chicken Dinner, more
"From a community cookbook - delicious."
Ingredients
Nutritional
- Serving Size: 1 (163.6 g)
- Calories 590.3
- Total Fat - 42.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 15.3 g
- Cholesterol - 125.6 mg
- Sodium - 287.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 25.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 2.7 g
- Sugars - 22.4 g
- Protein - 29.2 g
- Calcium - 54.8 mg
- Iron - 1.7 mg
- Vitamin C - 0.3 mg
- Thiamin - 0.3 mg
Step by Step Method
Step 1
Toast the pecans;
Step 2
Preheat the oven to 250F, place the pecans in a single layer on a cookie sheet, cover with 1/2 cup melted butter, bake for 15 minutes, being careful not to burn, then take the nuts out of the oven-set aside.
Step 3
Preheat the oven to 375F.
Step 4
Season the chicken strips with creole seasoning, salt, pepper and garlic powder.
Step 5
In a large, deep skillet, heat 6 Tb butter over medium heat.
Step 6
In batches, cook the chicken in the skillet until browned on both sides ( approx 2 minutes per side)- transfer the chicken to a large casserole dish.
Step 7
To the same skillet, add the sugar and syrup- cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly. Add the pecans and cook for another 1 minutes then pour the sauce over the chicken.
Step 8
Cover the casserole with foil and bake for 15 minutes or until he chicken is cooked through.
Tips
No special items needed.