Buttermilk Oven Fried Chicken

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Lipton. The opinions and text are all mine.

This Buttermilk Oven Fried Chicken is a perfectly cooked chicken breast that’s seasoned and cooked to mimic fried chicken! However, this chicken isn’t fried, it’s baked in the oven!

Do you know what I love most about winter? My home.

I know. That’s kind of out there right? Well not really. Home is where our cozy fire place is. Home is where the Christmas tree is brightly shining and where our puppies are sleeping in their beds. It’s where my husband and I come together after work to cook together and laugh; the smells of baked cookies and dinner in the oven filling the apartment.

Home is where we can detach from everything that’s going on around us and just gather around the people and moments that make our world go ’round.

It’s where our hearts fill full.

One of my favorite moments of the day is the moment right before dinner is ready. This is when we’re starting to connect again and asking each other about our days, the pups are getting their evening treats and the smell of dinner is floating through the entire apartment.

I almost always opt to make dinner in the oven during the winter. It’s like having my very own personal comfort food air freshener blowing delicious smells from the kitchen. There is just something so warm and uplifting about the smell of a home cooked dinner dancing through the air.

Since I love to cook in the oven during the winter months I decided to reimagine one of our favorite southern dishes, homemade fried chicken.

Normally fried chicken is fried in the skillet or deep fried. However this dish is baked in the oven and only mimics the fried chicken meal that we love.

This chicken does need to marinate in the buttermilk for a few hours but after that, it only takes about 3o minutes to bake!

You see these cornflakes right here? Those little beauties are going to give us the “fried” chicken appeal. You’re going to coat each chicken breast in the cornflakes after they marinate in the buttermilk and seasonings.

After that, it’s a quick trip to the oven and dinner is done.

Mix up the buttermilk and seasoning in the morning, place the chicken in and let it marinate while you’re at work or while you’re at home with the kids during the day.

When dinner time rolls around all you need to do is dip that buttermilk marinated chicken in the crushed cornflakes and the oven will do the rest.

This is one easy meal that will have everyone gathering around the table for dinner.

Serve it alongside a perfectly loaded baked potato, steamed broccoli and a glass of Lipton iced tea for the perfect twist on a southern classic.

You didn’t think we would enjoy “fried” chicken without the perfect glass of Lipton Sweet Tea flavored iced tea now did you?

Around here we always serve fried chicken and Sweet Tea together, even if it is oven “fried” chicken.

Almost every sit down dinner memory that I have involves family, friends, amazing meals and sweet tea. We all know that dinner down here in the south isn’t really dinner without glasses of Iced tea and lemon slices on the table!

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