Southern
Pecan-Crusted Chicken
Pecan-Crusted Chicken is Southern home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1.5 cups chopped pecans
- 3/4 cup panko breadcrumbs
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 large eggs
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 2 tbsp honey
- 3 tbsp butter
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
How to cook it
- Heat the oven to 400F and line a sheet pan.
- Pulse the pecans with the panko until coarsely ground, then spread on a plate.
- Set up the flour seasoned with salt and pepper in one dish and the eggs beaten with the Dijon and honey in another.
- Dredge each chicken breast in the flour, dip in the egg mixture, and press firmly into the pecan mixture to coat.
- Melt the butter on the sheet pan in the oven, then lay the chicken on top and drizzle with any extra butter.
- Bake until the crust is golden and the chicken registers 165F, about 22 minutes, turning once.
- Rest 5 minutes and serve.
Serve it with
A Southern dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Pecan-Crusted Chicken, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
-
The cooked vegetable
-
What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Pecan-Crusted Chicken carries tree nuts, dairy, gluten, and eggs. It is free of the remaining 6 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | Yes | BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwiches |
| Dairy | Yes | Cajun Jambalaya |
| Gluten | Yes | Blackened Catfish |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | Yes | Blackened Catfish |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Nuts and seeds, Grains, and Egg
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Pecan-Crusted Chicken takes about 40 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken and pecan.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
Meal suggestions support your goals. They are not medical advice. Please ask your doctor about your family's health needs.