Turkey Cutlets

I wanted to make another comfort food dinner and found some turkey cutlets at the grocery store. This is such an easy dinner! I had everything else I wanted at home.

Ingredients
1 package of turkey cutlets
1/3 # fresh green beans, washed and cut
2 potatoes, skins on, washed and cut into wedges
Panko bread crumbs
Thyme
Onion powder
Flour
Paprika
Garlic powder
Salt and pepper
2 eggs
Vegetable oil
Hot salt mix (given to us by friends, but feel free to try Spike instead, or whatever seasonings you like!)
Butter

Start with the green beans and get them ready and in the steamer basket.

Green beans ready to steam

Next cut the potatoes into wedges and put them in a bowl of water to soak out the starch. Let this sit for a half hour. While this is soaking, get the items ready for the cutlets.  Measure about a cup and a half of the panko and put it into a bowl. Add a couple of good shakes of onion powder, and three shakes of thyme leaves. Mix this together. Next, add to a ziplock bag a little bit less than one cup of flour. To this add some paprika, garlic powder, salt and pepper then shake the bag. Then take two eggs and beat them really well.

Cutlets, flour bath, egg wash and panko are ready

The potatoes should be ready by now to prepare, so drain them and pat them dry. Then  put them into a bowl and add a bit of oil and the hot salt seasoning, and a good shake of paprika. The oven – heat to 350 degrees. Lay the potatoes out on a silpat if you have one, or on a greased baking sheet.

Potatoes are seasoned, on the silpat and ready for the oven

Bake these for 30 minutes, and get the cutlets ready.  First, take a cutlet and shake it in the flour bag.  Then dip and turn a number of times in the egg.  Follow this by dredging in the seasoned panko.  Set the cutlet on a bread rack to dry.  Repeat this with all the cutlets, and let them sit to dry.

Cutlets are breaded and need to sit to dry a bit

At this point the potatoes should be ready to turn.  Do this and set the timer for another 30 minutes.  At this point, if I have anything left to clean up I get it done now, and get my plates and silverware ready.  20 minutes before the potatoes are done, start to heat some butter in a large skillet and when it just starts to bubble, add the cutlets. Cook these over medium high heat.

Cutlets are cooking in butter

Five minutes into cooking the cutlets, turn on the heat to start the green beans steaming. After another five minutes, turn the cutlets.

Turn and continue to cook

The cutlets, green beans and potatoes should all be done at the same time!

Sit back and enjoy this dinner with a Grenache!

Dinner is served!

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Oven Fried Chicken

I really love fried chicken, but I do not like the mess on the stove, and that I have to do it in batches. So, when I want a good and easy fried chicken I do it in the oven. Here is a recipe I adapted from the Betty Crocker cookbook.

Ingredients
Fryer, cut up an washed
1 1/2 cups of flour
Four shakes of garlic powder
Two shakes of onion powder
1/2 tsp. of cayenne pepper
Healthy shake of black pepper
Two shakes of old bay seasoning
salt
1/4 cup vegetable shortening
1/4 cup butter

Take the washed chicken and pat it dry.

Chicken is washed and ready

Mix the flour, garlic and onion powder, cayenne pepper, pepper and salt in a gallon size plastic bag. Take the excess fat from the back and wrap this up in foil with the neck, the gizzard, the heart and the liver.

Liver, Heart and Neck packed for a dog treat

I use this as an added treat for the dog. Set this aside.

Next take the butter and shortening and add to a 9×12 baking pan.

Shortening and Butter ready for the oven

Set the oven temperature to 425 degrees. When the oven is hot, place the pan in the oven and let the ingredients melt.

Shortening and Butter Melting in the Oven

When this is done, remove from the oven. Put pieces of the chicken into the bag a few at a time and shake it to coat the chicken well. Add the pieces to the pan, skin side down.

Chicken coated in flour and added to the pan

Place the pan back into the oven and bake for 30 minutes. Then turn the chicken.

Turn the chicken

.Pull the foil packet out of the oven and cool. When cool pull the meat from the chicken neck and chop the remaining items and use for dog treats.

The Dogs treats

For the chicken, cook an additional 25 minutes and remove from the oven. Remove the chicken from the pan and drain on paper towel. Let this sit for 5-10 minutes then serve!

The chicken is ready!

I find the chicken is juicy and the skin crispy! And, I love the heat the cayenne pepper adds to it! Try this one out and let me know what you think!

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