Popcorn crusted chicken with bacon crumbs
Serves: 4-6
Prep time: 15 minsTotal time: 
/ Recipe Jenna Leiter / Photographer Ria Osborne
Popcorn crusted chicken with bacon crumbs
Serves: 4-6
Prep time: 15 minsTotal time: 
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Nutritional information (per serving)
Calories
378Kcal
Fat
21gr
Saturates
4gr
Carbs
19gr
Sugars
9gr
Fibre
0gr
Protein
28gr
Salt
1.8gr
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Ingredients
- 4 Taste the Difference oak smoked bacon rashers
- 50g caster sugar
- 40g plain flour
- a generous pinch of cayenne pepper
- 75g bag salted popcorn
- 2 medium eggs, lightly beaten
- 1 x 460g pack chicken breast fillets, cut into bite-sized pieces
Step by step
Get ahead
Make the crumbs up to a few hours ahead
- Preheat the oven to 180/160fan/gas mark 4. Line a baking sheet with foil and place the bacon rashers on top. Sprinkle the caster sugar evenly over each rasher, making sure each one is completely covered in sugar. Bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes, until nicely caramelized. Transfer to a wire rack and leave to cool before transferring the slices to a food processor and blitzing to crumbs.
- To make the popcorn chicken, season the flour with salt, pepper and the cayenne pepper and whiz the popcorn in a food processor to smallish crumbs. Put the seasoned flour, the popcorn and the beaten eggs in three separate shallow bowls. Coat each chicken piece in flour (dusting off the excess), then in egg and finally in popcorn.
- Heat just enough oil over medium-low heat in a large, heavy based frying pan to cover the bottom of the pan and come up the sides by a few millimetres. Fry the chicken pieces for 6-8 minutes, in batches, turning regularly, until the outside is golden and crisp and the chicken is cooked through.
- Remove the popcorn crusted chicken with a slotted spoon and transfer to a plate lined with kitchen towel before tipping it into paper packets or a serving bowl; sprinkle over the bacon crumbs before serving.
