This pretzel crusted rooster makes a flavorful and quick weeknight dinner! My recipe is kid-friendly, might be baked or pan fried, and contains an irresistible honey mustard sauce. Recipe features a how-to video!
An Simple, Flavorful Weeknight Dinner
With a crispy-crunchy exterior and a young juicy heart, my pretzel crusted rooster is the flavorful, EASY weeknight rooster that the entire household will love (at the very least mine positive does!)! It stays good and crispy, in contrast to many baked breaded rooster recipes, and it has an attractive golden brown exterior.
This rooster is juicy, tender, and stuffed with taste. We’ll dip it in a honey mustard egg batter earlier than coating within the crisp and crunchy pretzel items. I additionally embody a honey mustard drizzle/dipping sauce, which actually takes issues to a complete new degree!
Why You’ll Love This Recipe
- Makes a fast, but so flavorful weeknight dinner (like my creamy cajun rooster!). It feeds the entire household in roughly half-hour! In the event you want extra weeknight dinner concepts, take a look at my weeknight dinners e mail sequence!
- Simple and kid-friendly. My children will fortunately eat this meal, which makes it well-liked round right here. It’s additionally straightforward to swap out the rooster breast for rooster tenders, which they love.
- Features a tasty honey mustard sauce that pairs completely and takes issues excessive.
- Crispy with none frying wanted (although you may pan fry if you’d like; I discuss extra about this beneath).
Components
Right here’s what you’ll must get began:
- Rooster. We use both rooster breasts or rooster tenders. Rooster tenders are good in case you plan to serve this dish to children, since they’re simpler to chunk into.
- Pretzels. I just like the small twisted type, and advocate you employ the identical. I typically crush my pretzels with a meals processor, however I usually simply use a Ziploc bag and rolling pin to maintain issues good and simple.
- Honey. Obligatory for a honey mustard sauce, however we additionally add this to the egg dip that we use to assist the crushed pretzels adhere.
- Dijon mustard. Much like the honey, we’ll add this to our sauce and our egg combination (it provides a lot taste!). Don’t use common yellow mustard; you need the deeper and extra subtle taste of Dijon for greatest outcomes.
- Spices. Together with black pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and smoked paprika (a favourite from my rooster and rice soup). We’ll additionally add a small pinch of cayenne to the honey mustard sauce. You’ll be able to skip this if you’re particularly delicate to spice, but it surely’s such a small quantity that even my children can tolerate it.
SAM’S TIP: The finer you crush your pretzels, the extra simply they’ll follow the rooster. I like to make use of my arms to actually coat the rooster with as many pretzel crumbs as I can and ensure there aren’t any bald patches.
Bear in mind, that is simply an summary of the components I used and why. For the total recipe please scroll right down to the underside of the put up!
The right way to Make Pretzel Crusted Rooster
- Make the dipping sauce: whisk the mayonnaise, mustard, honey, vinegar, and cayenne collectively in a shallow dish. You’ll be able to both make this earlier than prepping the rooster (this provides the flavour extra time to develop) or you can also make it whereas the rooster is baking within the oven.
- Dredge the rooster in the flour combination first. Ensure you evenly coat it, in any other case your egg combination received’t stick correctly.
- Dip the rooster within the egg combination till utterly coated. Ensure that there’s no dry spots of flour uncovered (dip it once more if that you must!).
- Lastly, coat the rooster within the crushed pretzels. Place on a parchment lined baking sheet.
- Drizzle the rooster with melted butter. This provides much more taste!
- Bake till cooked by; this may take a bit longer in case you use rooster breasts as an alternative of tenders. I like to recommend checking your meat with a thermometer to be protected.
- Serve with honey mustard sauce, if desired. You too can use the sauce as a dip!
SAM’S TIP: I often bake my rooster, however you may also pan fry it. Pan frying is extra work and extra mess, but it surely yields a juicier and extra flavorful rooster. I embody directions for pan frying this recipe within the notes beneath. Word there’s a little bit of a studying curve when making ready the rooster this fashion; in case you’re not cautious or don’t use sufficient oil, you may simply burn it and find yourself with a smoky, blackened mess.
Ceaselessly Requested Questions
I suppose you can, however I’m undecided how lengthy it will must prepare dinner. In the event you do do this recipe within the air fryer, let me know the way it seems for you!
I don’t see why not! You would possibly wish to regulate the seasoning within the flour combination in case you do although (and it’s possible you’ll or might not wish to use the honey mustard sauce, relying on the flavour you employ). I’d love to listen to what you experiment with!
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Pretzel Crusted Rooster
Servings: 2 -4 servings (see observe)
Energy: 1139kcal
Components
For the honey mustard sauce
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Directions
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Preheat oven to 400F (205C) and line a baking sheet with parchment paper (alternatively calmly grease with butter). Put aside.
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Make the honey mustard sauce: Whisk collectively the mayonnaise, honey, dijon mustard, white vinegar and cayenne pepper in a small dish. Cowl and refrigerate till able to serve.
2 Tablespoons mayonnaise, 2 Tablespoons honey, 2 Tablespoons Dijon mustard, 1 teaspoon white vinegar, ⅛ teaspoon cayenne pepper
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Crush pretzels: Place pretzels in a meals processor and pulse till damaged into effective items (alternatively, place the pretzels in a plastic bag and beat with a rolling pin till completely crushed). Pour right into a shallow dish and put aside.
3 cups (130 g) pretzels
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Put together the flour coating: In one other shallow dish, whisk collectively flour, salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder, and paprika. Put aside.
¾ teaspoon desk salt, ¼ teaspoon floor black pepper, ½ teaspoon onion powder, ½ teaspoon garlic powder, ½ teaspoon smoked paprika, ⅓ cup (42 g) all-purpose flour
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Put together egg dip. In one other shallow dish, whisk collectively egg, dijon mustard, and honey.
1 massive egg, 1 Tablespoon dijon mustard, 1 Tablespoon honey
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Put together the rooster: If utilizing rooster breast, use a pointy knife to chop every breast into cutlets (minimize in half lengthwise and, if wanted, pound to an excellent thickness).
1 lb (453 g) rooster breast or rooster tenders
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Pat the rooster dry then dredge by the flour combination till utterly coated, then dip within the egg, ensuring all the piece of rooster is totally coated in egg, then lastly coat with the pretzel combination, making certain the rooster is totally coated.
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Bake: Switch rooster cutlet to ready baking sheet and repeat till all rooster is coated, spacing at the very least 2” (5cm) aside on baking sheet. Drizzle rooster with melted butter then switch to heart rack of 400F (205C) preheated oven and bake till rooster is cooked to 165F (74C) when the middle is checked with a meat thermometer (about 15-16 minutes for tenders, 16-18 for rooster breast.)
2 Tablespoons salted butter
Notes
To pan fry:
Comply with directions by step 6. Add 2-3 Tablespoons of avocado (or different impartial cooking oil) to a ten” skillet and warmth over medium warmth till shimmering. Add rooster to pan, permitting at the very least 1” of area between items (prepare dinner in batches if wanted). Prepare dinner roughly 2-3 minutes per facet, making certain rooster is cooked by with an prompt learn thermometer (should learn 165F/74C). Take away to a paper towel lined plate, wipe out the skillet, add new oil, and repeat till all rooster has been cooked.
Storing
Retailer leftovers in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 4 days. Rooster is greatest reheated till warmed by in a 350F oven or within the air fryer.
Servings
This recipe simply feeds my household (2 adults and a pair of kids) however it’s possible you’ll wish to double it if feeding 4 adults.
Diet
Serving: 1serving | Energy: 1139kcal | Carbohydrates: 141g | Protein: 67g | Fats: 34g | Saturated Fats: 11g | Polyunsaturated Fats: 10g | Monounsaturated Fats: 9g | Trans Fats: 1g | Ldl cholesterol: 263mg | Sodium: 3084mg | Potassium: 1247mg | Fiber: 6g | Sugar: 29g | Vitamin A: 861IU | Vitamin C: 6mg | Calcium: 85mg | Iron: 8mg
Dietary data is predicated on third-party calculations and ought to be thought of an estimate solely. Precise dietary content material will differ primarily based upon manufacturers used, measuring strategies, cooking methodology, portion sizes, and extra.
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