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Why You’ll Love My Recipe
Coated in a blend of flavourful spices and ready in just 25 minutes, this blackened chicken looks and smells like gourmet cooking. Enjoy it with your favourite side dish.
For more intensely flavoured chicken options, why not try Jerk Chicken or Bourbon Chicken? If you prefer a mellower taste, make this Baked Chicken Breast instead. Serve any of these with a big bowl of salad or your favourite side dish.
Karlynn’s Recipe Notes
- Skill Level: This is an easy recipe.
- Total Time: It takes approximately 25 minutes to make this chicken.
- Variations: Try making some Cajun Seasoning Recipe to use on this chicken, or adjust the amounts of each spice to suit your personal tastes. You can easily make it more or less spicy by adjusting the amount of cayenne pepper you add.
- Tools Needed: For this recipe, you’ll need a medium bowl, a whisk or spoon, a cast iron skillet (or one that is oven safe), and a food thermometer.
What You’ll Need For Ingredients
Chicken: This recipe doesn’t include enough cooking time for bone-in chicken, so be sure that you choose boneless cuts of chicken. Breasts and thighs will both work well, but you’ll need to ensure that the pieces aren’t too thick to cook thoroughly.
Spices: The spices that you coat the chicken with are what create the blackened look, so you can use more or less depending on how much of that flavour you’d like to create.
Butter: Spray butter or cooking spray will be easiest for this recipe. If you haven’t got any on hand you could try dipping the chicken into melted butter or vegetable oil. Let the excess drip off before you dredge the chicken in the spices.
How To Make Blackened Chicken
This is a brief overview of the recipe. The full list of ingredients and step-by-step instructions are in the recipe card below.
- Take chicken out of refrigerator 20-30 minutes prior to cooking.
- Preheat oven to 375°F.
- Heat cast iron skillet over medium-high heat for 5 minutes.
- Mix spices together in a medium bowl.
- Spray chicken breasts with butter or oil, coat them in the spice mixture, and place in skillet.
- Cook for 3-4 minutes. Flip and repeat on other side.
- Place skillet in oven and bake until the interior of the chicken reaches 165°F.
- Let chicken rest for 5-6 minutes before slicing and serving.
Karlynn’s Tips and Tricks for Making Blackened Chicken
Cooking Time: Pay close attention to this recipe for the entire time. It’s easy to overcook and take the spices past their optimal toastiness. You’re aiming for the point just before they burn. The butter or oil on the chicken will help with this, but you still have to keep a close eye on the coating. Making sure to let the chicken get to room temperature before you cook it will also help with this, since the internal internal temperature won’t take as long to rise as it would if the chicken was still cold in the middle.
Serving Suggestions: This blackened chicken has fairly versatile flavours, which you can easily modify to suit your own personal preferences. Try making some Mushroom Rice or Make Ahead Mashed Potatoes to serve with this chicken. If you’d like to add more heat to your meal, try a batch of Buffalo Cauliflower or Buffalo Hot Sauce,Bacon & Jalapeno Mac and Cheese.
Storage Instructions
Fridge: Once it’s fully cooled, you can store the leftover chicken in a sealed container in the fridge for 3-4 days.
Freezer: Once cooled, you can store leftover chicken in a freezer safe container or bag in the freezer for several months. To avoid the chicken freezing together into one solid clump, try spreading out the pieces on a plate or tray to freeze until solid, and then consolidate them into ne smaller container.
More Delicious Chicken Recipes
Looking for more easy ways to cook with chicken?
Try Air Fryer Fried Chicken with your favourite summery side dish.
Or make Buttery Garlic & Herb Chicken and Potatoes with some vegetables.
Brunswick Stew is wonderful for when you want to keep the meal all in one pot.
There you go, everyone. A recipe that sounds fancy but is surprisingly easy to make. Try it out and let me know what you think.
Happy Cooking!
Karlynn
Blackened Chicken
Ingredients
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- ½ teaspoon ground cumin
- ½ teaspoon dried thyme
- ¼ teaspoon ground white pepper
- ¼ teaspoon onion powder
- 4 skinlessboneless chicken breast halves, not too thick
Instructions
- Remove the chicken from fridge 20-30 minutes prior to allow the meat to come to room temperature. Preheat your oven to 375 °F.
- Heat a cast iron skillet over medium-high heat for 5 minutes until it is hot.
- Mix together the spices: paprika, salt, cayenne, cumin, thyme, white pepper, and onion powder.
- Spray the chicken breasts on both sides with spray butter then coat with spice mixture and place in the skillet.
- Cook for 3-4 minutes or until the breast begins to turn white on the sides.
- Flip and cook on the other side for the same amount of time.
- Place the skillet into the oven and bake until using an instant read thermometer the temperature reaches 165°F. Remove.
- Allow the chicken to sit for 5-6 minutes until the juices can settle within the breast, this helps prevent dry meat and allows everything to settle and the meat to moisten again.
- Serve.
Notes
- Make sure your chicken breasts aren’t too thick, or they won’t cook on the inside properly without burning the spices too much
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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