#Baked cod with ritz cracker topping cracker
One at a time, dip chicken strips into melted butter and roll in cracker crumbs. You can make them thicker or thinner depending on your preference, but cooking is easier if they are reasonably consistent. Cut chicken against the grain (across the fine lines on the breast) into strips. Season with additional flavorings as desired. Place cracker crumbs in rimmed plate or baking dish. Crush crackers into fine crumbs, using food processor or blender, or placing crackers in a Ziploc bag and using rolling pin to flatten.1 roll Ritz crackers (35 crackers, or about 1 1/2 cups crumbs).1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts (or tenders).Keep extra in the freezer for convenient quick meals. Irresistibly crispy kid food that adults will drool over too. Baked cod with Ritz cracker topping from Simply Recipes – A New England special.Homemade Ritz crackers recipe from Cupcake Project – Who does this? I love it.Lake Erie walleye recipe from Cameron’s American Bistro – Cameron’s actually has the recipe online! For my walleye-loving Columbus peeps.This indoor-lighting picture doesn’t do justice to these tantalizingly crunchy tidbits, nor does this plate. The kids eat them with ketchup, but adults like them straight up. They look huge, but this is a small baking sheet. This roomy rental freezer could have fit a baking sheet.īaking a few to supplement the kids’ dinner. They are super convenient for quick meals. I’ll cook some and leave the rest to freeze later. My freezer can’t fit a baking sheet, but it works faster if you can keep the chicken in a single layer. We’re going to put them in the freezer for a brief zap to help the coating stick. Lay chicken fingers flat on a baking sheet or plate.
Press crumbs firmly into the strips to help them adhere to the meat. You can add all kinds of flavorings to the crumbs, such as a grated hard cheese, like Parmesan, herbs (parsley, thyme and/or oregano would all be good) or garlic salt or other seasoning salt. It all works.įortunately it doesn’t take much force to shatter Ritz crackers into crumbs.Ĭut chicken breasts across the grain (across the fine lines on the breast) into strips. But this time all I had was large flattish spoon and a rimmed plate. Usually I put the crackers in a sturdy plastic bag and use a rolling pin. You can use a food processor or blender to make crumbs from crackers. I love that Ritz are still packaged in wax paper. We’re in a rental house near Lake Tahoe for the kids’ school break this week, and cooking here is all about Recipes With the Fewest Possible Ingredients. It’s not going to win any heath awards, but it’s a wholesome version compared with chicken fingers from any other source. A more sophisticated adult version might use airy Japanese panko crumbs, but with chicken fingers, the down-home appeal of Ritz crackers is a perfect fit. The signature dish at Cameron’s American Bistro, an enduringly popular restaurant in Columbus, Ohio, is Lake Erie walleye (a freshwater fish), topped with lump crab meat and featuring Ritz crackers in its rich crust.Īs far as kids’ food goes, the combination of chicken fingers and crispy, flavorful Ritz cracker crumbs is a pretty unbeatable combination. One of Ritz’s more creative back-of-the-box recipes is a Depression-era mock apple pie that uses broken Ritz crackers as an economical alternative to apples. Recipes with Ritz crackers range from encrusted fish to casserole topping to dessert.
Today Ritz are made with soybean oil and hydrogenated cottonseed oil, with artificial butter flavoring added.īut there’s no denying the fond place Ritz crackers hold in American hearts, and to munch through a whole roll at one sitting is practically a kid’s rite of passage.
Perhaps the golden rounds were made with butter when Nabisco first introduced the cracker in 1934 as an affordable luxury during the Great Depression. There’s no avoiding snack food with four kids in the house (I don’t want to be the strict health-nut mom whose kids go to college and eat Froot Loops three times a day), but snack foods never crossed into my cooking until my friend Jenny got my kids hooked on her chicken strips rolled in buttery Ritz cracker crumbs.ĭespite the fancy name, Ritz crackers aren’t exactly a high-quality ingredient.
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