Shook and cook coating mix (and cooking methods)

1 Servings

Ingredients

Quantity Ingredient
½ cup Fine dry breadcrumbs
1½ ounce Pkg. spaghetti sauce mix; (dry)
1½ ounce Envel. dry onion soup mix
2 cups Self-rising flour

Directions

Combine the first 3 ingredients in a blender, using and on/off speed on High until thoroughly mixed. Dump it into a 1½ quart mixing bowl, and stir in the self rising flour. When well mixed, place in a contaner with a tight fitting lid, such as a 12 ounce Cool Whip container. You can then store it at this point until ready to use.

For Chicken: Oven Bake: Run 1 piece of chicken at a time from 3 lbs. cut up under cold water. Shake off excess water. Place one piece at a time into a bowl containing the coating mixture. Secure the lid in place. Shake bowl a few times to coat pieces. Arrange pieces after coating on Pam sprayed 10x15x3/4" jelly roll pan about 1 inch apart. Set aside. Melt ¼ pound of butter or margarine in small skillet or saucepan. "Lap" it on top side only of each piece of coated chicken arranged on the prepared pan. (keeping pieces skin-side up.) Use only enough of the melted butter or margarine to evenly and lightly caress each piece. Then place ½ cup of th coating mixture in a small flour sifter. Sift ot all over the margarine covered chicken pieces. Bake, uncovered, without turning the pieces at 400 F. for about 1 hour.

Skillet Method: Melt equal parts margarine and oil sufficient to cover the bottom of a roomy skillet, keeping oil mixture at least ¼" deep. Coat pieces of chicke nas directed above for oven method. Brown about 2 minutes on each side on Medium-High heat. Don't over-brown these or meat will be tough. Transfer browned peices to greased baking pan and continue heating in oven at 400 F. about 10-15 minutes or to desired doneness.

For Pork: Allow 4 center cut pork chops for amount given in the chicken coating recipe, but add to the coating mixture in a bowl: 1 tsp. chili powder, ½ tsp. paprika, ¼ tsp. cumin powder. Proceed as recipe directs for coating and baking.

For Cube Steaks or Chicken Fried Steak: (such as Denny's ) Follow directions for eaith the oven or skillet method for chicken pieces but to the coating mix in the bowl, before applying to moistened steas, add 1 tsp.

brown sugar, ½ tsp. bottole lemon peel or finly grated lemon rind. Follow recipes as otherwise directed.

Fpr Coating Fish Fillets: follow recipe for either method of preparing chicken, but to the coating mixture, add 1 tsp. paprika nd 1 tsp. finely grated lemon rind or bottle peel (zest). Proceed as recipe otherwise directs.

For Coating Veal Cutlets" Add 1 tsp. dry marjoram leaves to coating mixture and follow recipes as given for preparing chicken. MC formatting by bobbi744@...

Recipe by: Gloria Pitzer's Better Cookery Cookbook Posted to Bakery-Shoppe Digest by Roberta Banghart <bobbi744@...> on Apr 05, 1998

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