PW’s Crispy Yogurt Chicken
I had some chicken in the freezer that needed to get used up. I’m submitting this for Deep Freeze II. It’s a great blogging event that encourages everyone to look into your freezer and make a meal out of what you find. Most of the ingredients for this meal came from my freezer. I keep garlic, chopped basil and chopped cilantro in the freezer. These are all in the form of store-bought ice-cube-like trays that I found at Trader Joes. They’re a life saver in a pinch and taste just like the real thing. The garlic is so much more fragrant than the jarred stuff (Hubby refuses to use the jarred garlic).
When I mixed up the yogurt mixture it smelled so good I wanted to eat a big dollop on a cracker. I bumped up the garlic as usual. The leftover yogurt would have been perfect for dipping our black-bean sweet-potato fritters into. Unfortunatly, I forgot to set some aside before I started dredging the chicken in the yogurt. Grr. I was so mad!
The chicken I had was boneless skinless breasts. So I cut them into cutlet sizes and went from there. These didn’t turn out that crispy (especially compared to what PW got). I guess you need the skin for that? I’ll definitely make these again with some skin-on chicken. Please excuse the quality of the photo. This was a late dinner for us and all the natural light was gone…
Crispy Yogurt Chicken – from the Pioneer Woman
Chicken legs
2 cups Plain, unflavored yogurt
2-3 garlic cloves
parsley – I used cilantro
juice of 1 lemon
salt
butter
~2 cups Panko bread crumbs
(I rewrote the instructions here, see the PW site for original instructions)
Pour 2 cups yogurt into a bowl. Add the minced garlic and parsley. Mix well. Add the lemon juice and mix to combine.
Rinse and pat the chicken dry. Sprinkle with kosher salt.
In another bowl, place the bread crumbs. Stir in some salt.
Butter a baking dish. With a pair of tongs place the chicken into the yogurt one piece at a time. Turn over to coat thoroughly. Then roll the chicken in the bread crumbs. Cover with crumbs and place in baking dish.
Finally, place a slice of butter over the large part of each chicken piece. Cover with foil and bake at 350 for ~1 hour. Take the foil off for the last 15 minutes. When chicken is golden, remove and enjoy.
I am Jen the Beantown Baker. Engineer by day and baking maven by night. Hubby serves as my #1 fan and official taste tester. We got hitched back in 2006. Barefoot. In the sand. With the waves crashing behind us. It was one of the best decisions we’ve ever made. 
I am obsessed with your crockpot chicken tacos and am sure this is going to be another favorite crockpot chicken recipe in our house!
P.S. I had a cake craving last night and jumped on your blog to look up cupcake recipes… you have 101 cupcake recipes?!!
beantownbaker — February 24th, 2011 @ 9:03 pm
Yea… about those cupcakes. I went through a phase at the beginning of my blog. And I’ve been blogging 3.5 years, so that’s really only about 30/year…
I think I would LOVE this recipe! Bret loves pulled chicken and I love slow cooker recipes!
Yum, my husband would totally love this!!
Sounds delicious and perfect for leaving in the pot before work and coming home to wonderfully cooked chicken. Can’t wait to try it!
I love this kind of stuff. We had beef dip sandwiches last night. SO GOOD. I bet we’ve love this too!
Sounds delicious, but I’m sure I’d have to just add one of those chiles 🙂
Yay! I love Pulled chicken sandwiches, I’m so glad you shared this recipe.
Nothing bad about pulled chicken. Nothing. Love all the flavors that the chicken was simmering in. Bet this was awesome!
This is the first time I’ve seen someone else use an Eating Well recipe! I like. 🙂 Also, this chicken looks fabulous and easy….nice work.
These look awesome and so easy to make! I love spicy pulled chicken and I love anything that you can just throw in the crockpot. Can’t wait to try them!
My husband and I made this last night for dinner and it was absolutely delicious! Thanks for sharing!
Has anyone tried freezing this? I dont eat meat, but I am thinking about making this for my husband but there is no way he could eat a whole pot to himself.
beantownbaker — May 7th, 2012 @ 10:10 am
Like most crockpot meals, this meat freezes just fine. I like to portion it out into individual sized portions prior to freezing so you can just grab one and go.
Hi! I made this last year and it was a huge hit. I want to make it again for a holiday pot luck, but when I looked at the recipe today, it seemed to have the directions listed twice, and no ingredient amounts. I was able to find the recipe at eating Well, but wanted to let you know that there may be something wrong here.
beantownbaker — December 1st, 2013 @ 6:46 pm
Thanks for the update. I am fixing the post now. Glad this recipe was a success for you!
love Pulled chicken sandwiches,