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Oven-Fried Chicken w/ Roasted Potato Wedges

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Oven-Fried Chicken w/ Roasted Potato Wedges

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Serves 5

This Simple Cooking with Heart, finger-licking-good, American recipe is not only tastes as good as the original but is heart healthy, too. Believe me, this is going to quickly become one of your family's most requested dinners!

Ingredients:
Oven-Fried Chicken:
• non-stick cooking spray
• 1 whole, skinless chicken, cut into 10 pieces
• 1 cup fat-free buttermilk
• 1 egg, beaten
• 1/2 cup whole-wheat flour
• 1 tsp. paprika
• 1/2 tsp. black pepper

Oven-Roasted Potatoes:
• nonstick cooking spray
• 3 large potatoes, peeled if desired, cut into 1/4-inch-wide strips
• 1/2 tsp. garlic powder
• 1/2 tsp. dried parsley

Directions:
Oven-Fried Chicken
1. Preheat oven to 425 degrees. Spray a wire rack with cooking spray and place over a baking sheet.

2. Cut chicken in to 8 pieces (2 breasts, 2 thighs, 2 drumsticks).

3. In a shallow dish, combine buttermilk and egg, whisk well.

4. In a separate shallow dish combine flour, paprika and pepper, stir well.

5. One piece at a time, dip chicken in buttermilk mixture, then coat with flour and place on baking wrack.

6. Lightly spray chicken with cooking spray and bake 30 minutes, turn chicken and bake 20 minutes more until center reaches a safe temperature of 165 degrees.

(Optional: If you prefer darker brown ?crisply? chicken, turn on the oven?s broiler for the last 2 minutes but keep an eye on the tenders so they don?t burn!)

Oven-Roasted Potatoes
1. After chicken is done, keep oven at 425 degrees. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray.

2. Arrange potato wedges on cookie sheet so none overlap and coat lightly with cooking spray. In a small bowl, mix garlic powder, pepper and parsley.

3. Sprinkle herb mixture over potatoes and bake for 15 minutes.

4. Stir and bake 15 minutes more until wedges pierce easily with a fork.

1/4 of recipe equals: Calories 368; Total Fat 6 g (Saturated Fat 1.6 g, Trans Fat 0.0 g, Polyunsaturated Fat 1.6 g, Monounsaturated Fat 1.6 g); Cholesterol 123 mg; Sodium 167 mg; Carbohydrates 34 g; Fiber 3.2 g; Protein 44 g