![]() I’ve been roasting chickens with butter and honey, lemon and garlic, and all the usual suspects for way too long. Good thing I started a food blog then, right? I’m always full of ideas! In my personal life I don’t tend to bore easily, but with my food it’s always a waiting game for the next new thing. Try this zesty, fiery and finger-licking good Jamaican twist on roasted chicken with savory-sweet spices and a tangy mango salsa! Mug Cakes, Cookies & Small Batch Desserts.Plate the chicken and top with mango salsa.Add a little more butter when turning the chicken if your pan is dry. The exact time will depend on the thickness of your chicken. ![]() When the pan is hot, place the chicken into the pan and cook for about 5 minutes on each side, or until the coconut is golden and the inside of the chicken is cooked through. In a large nonstick or cast iron skillet on medium heat, melt 2 tablespoons of butter and spread around the pan.Press the coconut to the chicken to get as much to stick as you can. One by one, dip the pieces of chicken into the flour, then egg, then coconut.Place flour and salt in one shallow bowl, the egg and milk in another bowl, and the coconut and flour into yet another shallow bowl.Stir to combine, and cover until ready to serve. Squeeze lime juice over the top and sprinkle with salt. Toss the mango, jalapeño, cilantro, and red onion together in a small bowl.So if you don’t already, branch out a little and get friendly with your local mangos! If you already love mangos, let me know your favorite way to eat them. We enjoyed this as a light dinner, but it would be fabulous over rice, or sliced and stuffed into tacos. I found that with a chicken breast that was thicker, my coconut crust was nicely browned before the chicken was cooked through. ![]() So place one hand flat on top of your chicken breast, and with a sharp knife, parallel to your cutting board, slice the chicken breast into two thin filets. Slicing the chicken into thin filets helps them cook through faster. The textures and flavors are perfect together! I love the sweet, spicy, crunchy combination. ![]() I did a simple flour/egg/coconut dipping sequence with some thinly cut chicken breasts, and then pan fried them in butter. So then I wondered, what do I want to top with this amazing mango salsa? How about coconut crusted chicken? I used one whole jalapeño pepper without the seeds and membrane, and my salsa was very mild. And you can control the heat by using more or less spicy peppers. It was very helpful! My boys loved the inside-out mango trick.Īfter falling in love with mangos in my green smoothie, and thinking of more ways to use fresh mangos, making my own mango salsa naturally came to mind. I looked up a little YouTube video on how to properly cut a fresh mango, because I vaguely remembered something about a pit that is the same color as the fruit. Yes, I loved you when I was in Maui three years ago, and every now and then you show up on my take out fish taco, but I’m not really going to bring you home and include you in my daily life…īut lately we are really warming up to each other! I started out using them as a frozen addition to our green smoothies (recipe coming soon!), and when I realized how much I loved that sweet, tropical flavor, I decided to try buying fresh mango. You know how there are certain foods, you don’t necessarily dislike, but don’t really think to cook with? That used to be me and mangos. Well, my friends, this Coconut Crusted Chicken with Mango Salsa is no joke! Mangos are quickly becoming my new best friend. I’m pretty sure she only did it because I had put Saran Wrap on the toilet. Has that ever happened to you? Such a strange feeling to hop into bed, slide your legs down only to suddenly jam your toes against an unexpected endpoint before you even get halfway down the length of the bed. I remember one year my mom short-sheeted my bed. I’m going to have to think of a good one for next year. It was a fairly uneventful day at our house, although one of my boys did scream his head off about finding a bug in the house to try to get me to come running. Hope you survived April Fool’s Day without being the butt of anyone’s joke.
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