Quick and Easy Blackened Chicken Recipe

Posted by
Rate It!
Quick and Easy Blackened Chicken
Add your photo!
Ingredients
4
Count
Nutrition
405
Calories
Total time
25
Minutes
Comments Print recipe

Ingredients:

Directions:

  1. Turn oven of 275°F.
  2. Place chicken breasts under plastic wrap and pound out evenly with a rolling pin (I use an empty champagne bottle- works like a charm).
  3. Place a cast iron or other sturdy frying pan on high heat. Let heat for about 5 or 6 minutes until VERY hot.
  4. Meanwhile coat both sides of chicken with melted butter (I like to use clarified) and sprinkle one fourth of the cayenne and blackening seasoning over the top side of your chicken.
  5. Place ONE chicken breast in the pan, seasoning side down. Place a sheet of tin foil over chicken breast and use either a heavy cast iron pot/pan or a pot filled with 5 lbs of rice to weigh down on the tin foil covered breast. Let sit and seer for 1 1/2 minutes being careful not to go over. Lift weight and tin foil. Sprinkle another fourth of cayenne and blackening seasoning on top of unseasoned side of breast. Flip breast over. Re-apply tin foil flipped raw/wet side up) and reapply weight for an additional 1 1/2 minutes to cook other side.
  6. Remove breast from the pan and place in the oven in a glass dish.
  7. Repeat with second breast. Once the second breast is done let it sit in the oven for about 10 minutes and it's ready to serve.
  8. Goes great in salads or with grilled veggies like zucchini and red bell peppers. Garlic mash potatoes are also a great paring. Pasta alfredo too!
  9. I use this same method with steaks and catfish.
  10. You can add hot sauce of your choice to melted butter if you REALLY like it spicy.
Kitchen-Friendly View

Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 404.7 Kcal (1694 kJ)
Calories from fat 221.21 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 24.58g 38%
Cholesterol 186.02mg 62%
Sodium 783.73mg 33%
Potassium 672.99mg 14%
Total Carbs 0.44g 0%
Sugars 0.14g 1%
Dietary Fiber 0.18g 1%
Protein 48.11g 96%
Vitamin C 0.1mg 0%
Vitamin A 0.2mg 7%
Calcium 14.7mg 1%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 148.67 Kcal (622 kJ)
Calories from fat 81.26 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 9.03g 38%
Cholesterol 68.34mg 62%
Sodium 287.91mg 33%
Potassium 247.22mg 14%
Total Carbs 0.16g 0%
Sugars 0.05g 1%
Dietary Fiber 0.06g 1%
Protein 17.67g 96%
Vitamin A 0.1mg 7%
Calcium 5.4mg 1%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
Find out how many calories should you eat.

Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
Search recipes
by ingredients
Search
Construct & Analyze
Your Recipe
Analyze

Try this similar recipes

View More

Recipe Tags

Weightwatchers Points

  • 10.1
    Points
  • 11
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • sugar free

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium

Also Try

Share Recipe

Recipes▼
Search
Get Your Recipe of Health!
Follow RecipeOfHealth on Facebook!
Scroll to top