Almond Crusted Chicken
Marinating this almond-crusted chicken in a mixture of yogurt and paprika and lemon, makes it oh so moist and tender inside and crispy on the outside.
This post is sponsored by Blue Diamond Almonds. As always, all opinions and recipe are my own. Thanks for supporting the brands who support me in doing what I love!
This life can be pretty glorious, but every now and then, things don’t go according to plan and we end up being clobbered by lemons!
Of course, when that happens we try our best to simply pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off and keep on going – till we reach those glorious bits and pieces again. And, reach them we do. In time.
Speaking of life’s lemons…
I came across this story yesterday (which I am sure y’all have already heard about), about this remarkable lady, who suffered serious burns in a fluke kitchen accident when she was a toddler. I must say I have been so in awe of how she not only picked herself up and dusted herself off, but in the way she stopped to help others along the way.
When she found permanent tattooing to be the answer she needed to cover up her scars, she decided to master it herself and start offering it to other burn victims; in the process, helping them pick themselves up, dust themselves off and reach their own glorious bits and pieces.
Speaking of glorious bits and pieces and things not going quite according to plan ….
It had been a long day, and my daughter posed the infamous “mom, what’s for dinner question” and while I was thinking about it, I figured I would make us a quick snack – using the almonds I found on my doorstep, sent by Blue Diamond Almonds.
At first, I was going to toss them on a small salad – but, other than broccoli and beets, I was short on veggies. My daughter suggested a nut butter type dip with the two different kinds of Blue Diamond almonds – but we didn’t have anything to dip into the dip.
What we did have was defrosted chicken, so I figured I would pulverize the almonds and use them to coat the chicken, using egg as the glue – but – guess what? Yup – we were out of eggs (clearly I need to make a grocery store run)! But we had yogurt and a bag of lemons, so I ended up using them as a stand-in for the eggs and as a marinade – and – the resulting almond-crusted chicken bites were so good – we ended up making this our dinner – and what a glorious meal this was to end a crazy day with!
These almond crusted chicken bites are definitely going to be on our homegating menu this weekend – maybe they will be on yours?
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Ingredients
- 2 free range chicken breasts cut into bite sized pieces
- 1 7 oz container Greek yogurt
- 1 teaspoon paprika
- juice of half a lemon
- salt and pepper to taste if needed
- 1/2 cup Blue Diamond Wasabi and Soy Sauce Almonds
- 1/2 cup Blue Diamond Smokehouse Almonds
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 375
- Mix the yogurt, paprika, lemon and salt and pepper together and add chicken to the mixture, making sure to coat the chicken pieces well – let sit
- Meanwhile, add the almonds to a blender and pulse till somewhat fine
- Coat marinaded chicken with crushed almonds
- Spread onto a foil lined baking tray and bake for 30 minutes
That’s a rgeat movie night snack idea I hadn’t tried before. It looks simple enough and doesn’t seem to take up too much time.
Yeah I am in awe too when I see or hear about people who suffered but are standing strong. Sometimes we all forget how human we are and that standing on our feet after a traumatic event isn’t that easy.
What a kind hearted and generous woman. I’m sure she knows exactly what these other people are going through! Great idea crusting these with almonds too 😀
Wait, you don’t want to eat this chicken with my waffles…. Did that come out wrong? lol
These almond crusted chicken bites sound amazing! Great idea to marinate them with yogurt! Definitely have to try them, so easy and creative 🙂
Even though your cupboard was bare, you still created an interesting and tasty dish. Thank goodness you were sent those almonds! And how terrible to have burns from such a young age – very tragic but I’m glad to hear she’s doing well xx
That story was gut wrenching and heart warming -all in one, Charlie!
Btw – thank you!
I love almond crusted chicken and your use of those two awesome sounding nuts really takes this to the next level! Such a flavor packed recipe!
Thanks so much Sonali – those wasabi soy sauce almonds had an incredible kick – I used the smokehouse to tone them down some and they balanced each other out 🙂
I love marinating chicken in yogurt! And the nut coating looks phenomenal!!!
Thanks Liz!
I love how you used Greek yogurt to get the coating to stick – and the flavored almonds sound fantastic!
That Greek yogurt was phenomenal indeed! Thanks Jeanette!
I loveeee crusting chicken in nuts! This sounds fantastic – especially with that yogurt / paprika mixture!
Thanks so much Ashley!
I would love this dish. Chicken-y and crusty and delicious!
I know right, Maureen!
Such a simple but delicious chicken dish – I saw a similar recipe just a couple of days back and decided to make it for my brother – now I definitely will, you have reinforced that notion 😀
Cheers
Choc Chip Uru
It sure was delicious Urvashi! Hope your brother enjoys it! 🙂 Thank you!
What a fun (and easy) chicken recipe, Shashi…I’m totally digging it! I love that you used 2 flavors of almonds in here, too. So if this is your homegating recipe….that means that your daughter convinced you to watch the Super Bowl! Way to go, lil Shashi! 🙂
Haha – she sure did, David! I might have more fun watching the commercials and devouring the food … and bugging lil Shashi, though!
Shashi, I hadn’t read that story before. . I love inspirational real life stories like that! and love using different things to coat and bread chicken. . love this!! Wow, I’ve got to try the Blue Diamond Wasabi and Soy Sauce Almonds!!! yummmmm!!
I am so glad you liked that story – it has been one of my favs! And that Wasabi and Soy Sauce flavored almonds are the best! Thanks so much Alice!
Yum – this looks awesome!! We eat lots of chicken and I’m always looking for new ways to cook it. Can’t wait to get all the ingredients and make this one.
This was super easy to make Kim – and deeeelicious! I bet y’all would love’em! 🙂
I used blue diamond honey vanilla almond to crust my chicken, haha! nut crusted chicken is so good though!
You are so right – nut crusted chicken is so good indeed!
These look amaaaaazing, Shashi! And I love the delicious simplicity of them! I’ve only ever tried coating chicken with almonds once, but it was the bomb.com (I can’t believe I just said that…) I used regular almonds, so I imagine that the flavoured almonds would make things even more delicious. And your recent egg-less debacle sounds like the situation I’ve got going on right now 😉
Thanks so much Amanda!
Yes – the flavored ones were thebomb.comx2!