Monday, March 1, 2010

What to do with cornflakes and pancake mix?

My friend Meagan, who lives in Japan, accidentally ordered a ten pound bag of pancake mix from Costco delivery.  I wish I could have seen her face when they delivered that package!  That's a lot of pancakes!  Celia and Charlie would eat pancakes at every meal if we would let them, but that bag would still last for at least a month or two.  Meagan asked if Whats for Leftovers? could create a recipe that has pancake mix in it to use some up.  Here's the first of several pancake mix recipes (hopefully).  Up until now, I never thought about using pancake mix for anything other than pancakes, but I have to tell you, tonight's chicken strip recipe turned out great.  They were incredibly moist on the inside and crispy on the outside.  I fried them, but you could probably bake them in the oven for a healthier version.  Meagan, keep us updated on how much more pancake mix we have to go!


Breakfast Chicken Strips
Ingredients:
1 and 1/2 Cups Pancake Mix
1 and 1/2 Cups Crushed Cornflakes
4 Boneless Chicken Breasts
1/2 Cup Milk

1.  Mix together pancake mix and crushed cornflakes.  Make sure you measure your cornflakes after you have crushed them.  They need to be pretty fine. 
2. Cut up chicken breasts into strips.
3. Heat a thin layer of oil in a large frying pan.
4. Pour 1/2 cup of milk in a bowl.  Dip chicken strips into milk.  Next dip them into the pancake and cornflake mix.  Make sure you coat both sides of the strip well.
5. Put chicken strips into frying pan.  Fry on one side until golden brown and then flip and fry on the other side until chicken is cooked.  You will probably have to add oil as you cook your chicken. 

**Be careful not to get your oil too hot.  This happened to me and I had to dump my oil and start all over.

1 comment:

Rozema Family said...

The pictures look fun! Thanks for adding them!