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Almond Chicken
There are many things I miss about my hometown of Dearborn, Michigan.
I miss my family. I miss friends. I miss all the fun gatherings, events and celebrations!
At all of these gatherings, there is always a large selection of delicious foods.
Aside from all the delicious home cooked meals, I miss the easily accessible halal food.
We are limited on halal options here, so we generally prepare things at home.
As you know from previous posts, LA Bistro is a popular restaurant in Dearborn, with a variety of cafe style Mediterranean food. One of my favorite dishes they serve, is the almond chicken. So, I developed a copy cat recipe!
Here is my recipe:
Almond Chicken
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Serves: serves 4
A delicious pan fried chicken breast with almonds and a creamy sun dried tomato sauce!
Ingredients
- For The Chicken
- 4 skinless boneless chicken breasts, cut or beat into 1/4 inch thick pieces
- 1 1/2 cups Italian bread crumbs
- 1/3 cup sliced almonds
- 2 eggs, whisked
- 3/4 cup flour
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/2 teaspoon Hungarian paprika
- 1/2 cup vegetable oil (I use grape seed oil)
- For the sauce
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons all purpose flour
- 1 pint heavy cream
- 3/4 cup sun dried tomatoes, sliced
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground white pepper (can use black pepper)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Instructions
- In a bowl combine flour, salt, pepper, paprika and garlic powder.
- In a second bowl whisk together eggs
- In a third bowl combine bread crumbs and almond slices.
- Set up dipping station. First flour mixture, then egg, then bread crumbs.
- Dredge chicken breasts into flour, then egg wash, then coat them with the bread crumbs. Gently press the almonds into the chicken so they stick.
- Heat oil in pan. Cook chicken 3-5 minutes on each side, until golden brown. Place on rack.
- To make the sauce, mix butter and flour to create a roux. Allow flour flavor to cook out; approximately 5 minutes. Stirring constantly.
- Whisk in heavy cream, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper and garlic powder.Add in the sun dried tomatoes. Continue stirring until the sauce thickens.
- Serve the sauce over chicken.
- Serve with a side of rice and vegetables.
- Enjoy 🙂
Loved the sauce of sun dried tomatoes that you’ve used, exotic blend. Chicken is my all-time fav 😛
Thank you! It is delicious 🙂
Amanda this was amazing!! I made it for dinner tonight and the whole family loved it! Looking forward to more recipes from you ☺️☺️.
Yay! I’m so glad you enjoyed it 🙂 Suhtein 💗
Hey, Salam, Amanda! I too love this recipe and have been looking for a mock for a while. Thank you for posting 🙂 We are trying this tonight and I am wondering, did you dredge the chicken twice in the dipping station ingredients? Your directions look like so but I just wanted to confirm 🙂
thanks!
Hi Aseel! Thank you for your kind words 🙂 The chicken is dredged once in flour. Then dipped into the egg wash, then into the bread crumn/almond mixture. Hope this answers your question 🙂