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You know, there's one thing
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that all my grandchildren can agree on
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when it comes to their little tummy,
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every one of them likes chicken fingers
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or chicken tenders or
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any kind of crispy chicken.
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I think these children are born with a
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chicken nugget and a macaroni and cheese gene somewhere,
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somewhere in their little bodies.
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for y'all a wonderful, wonderful
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thin and crispy fried chicken breast in the air fryer.
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So I'm using some really good chicken pieces, y'all.
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Now I have beat that one out
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and I've taken my mallet
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(loud banging) and I'm using
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the side of my mallet so it won't,
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(loud banging) if I did it like that,
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it'd punched holes in the plastic
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and I don't want it to do that.
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pound these out. (loud banging)
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take them out of the wrap.
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Looking good. Looking good.
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I might have to give them an extra hit
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to thin out the sides.
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All right. So we've got everything lined up for us.
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we've got Italian seasoning, paprika and a little salt.
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And then at this station we've got our beaten eggs.
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And at this station we've got our Panko.
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Oh, we don't have any Italian seasoning there,
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sorry, that's pepper.
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And at this station we've got Italian seasoning,
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a little more salt and a little more pepper.
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I'm going to be careful with the salt
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because the kids don't
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need anything too salty.
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So I'm going to dry our chicken breast off.
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I'm going to have to take our liner for the air fryer
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out while it's heating because
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it doesn't have anything to weight it down
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and it'll get caught up in the heat source
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and could have a little fire.
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All right. So this is our first step.
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And I'm not putting much pepper
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because, like I said, I've got my children in mind.
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And this isn't cayenne pepper, this is paprika.
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And that's garlic salt and onion salt too in that paprika.
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Theresa? - [Theresa] Yes.
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- Yeah, we've put them- - [Theresa] Powder,
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onion powder and garlic.
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- Yeah. We put that in there with the paprika.
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And then just a little salt.
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And we're going to mix that up.
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I'm going to get rid of this,
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so I'll have some working space.
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And did I tell y'all I was preheating the air fryer?
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For something like this,
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normally I don't preheat, but for something like this
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I like it to be hot when I put my fried stuff in there.
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All right, so at this station we've got our Panko,
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just a little pepper.
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And this is going to be our last dipping.
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All right, so I think...
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I think I'm going to take my scissors
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because you know, they're used to eating tenders or nuggets.
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So I'm going to take my scissors
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and I'm going to just cut these horizontally.
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Okay so we've got our flour mixed with some seasonings.
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So I'm going to just take that and
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bridge it in the flour.
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dip these in our egg.
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And this is the messy part,
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and I'm telling you what, this is so messy,
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but it makes it so good.
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press those chicken pieces down into your Panko.
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To me, it just makes the best crispy outside.
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And you want to kind of let that egg drip off.
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Now I'll have to add more Panko as I go,
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because it doesn't take but a minute y'all, for
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the Panko to start getting wet
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and not sticking right.
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You know, if you wanted to do these up ahead of time,
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'cause I know a lot of you mothers work and dad's work
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and then have to come home, face more work.
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So one day if you don't have anything to do, you could do
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and put them in the freezer.
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Well first you'd want to put them on a cookie sheet
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so none of them were touching,
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put them in the freezer and they would become
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what we call IQF, individually quick frozen.
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And then you could just take them all,
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throw them in a Ziploc or a freezer bag
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and just pull them out as you need them
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and then throw them in your air fryer.
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So we want this to sit for about five minutes
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and kind of like dry out, y'all.
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And then we're going to lay them
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on our liner in our air fryer and I'm going to spray them.
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And that spray is going to help them
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than what they thought they were going to be.
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Okay the air fryer is hot, y'all.
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I'm going to put my liner back in there,
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'cause that really does save on making a mess,
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And since I heated it,
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those edges are very, very hot.
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Now I want to, I don't want to crowd these in here,
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so I'm going to do two batches.
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Mm, mm, mm. These are going to be delicious.
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Now I did let them sit,
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I might've let them sit for maybe 10 minutes, Eddie,
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But it gave them the opportunity to dry out.
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So I'm going to give them a nice spray
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to help set that crispiness in.
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And I'm setting it back for
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seven minutes, about seven minutes per side.
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So this is after seven minutes.
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And I'm just going to flip them,
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you can see how crispy they are.
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I mean, they're like stiff as a board, which is
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what I'm looking for.
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All right now I'm going to spray this side, Eddie,
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with my olive oil spray.
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Isn't it great that this has no calories?
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Our little grands are going to love these y'all.
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They're just beautiful.
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And you know what, Eddie?
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I want to see if little Mike...
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You know, I offered him some wonderful things to eat today
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and he's turned everything down.
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if he'll taste our air fryer fried chicken breast.
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Would you like some?
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- Yeah, I think- - You would?
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Oh my goodness. Now listen, I want you to be honest.
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But you make the best chicken, so.
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- Well you just taste it and tell me what you think.
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And you want me to taste along with you?
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- You do like it? - Mm-mm.
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It is very, very good.
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And I tried not to get it too salty,
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you know, for the little chillings
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and the medium sized chillings.
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So I've got one more batch
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I'm fixing to put in the air fryer.
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Seven minutes on each side,
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make sure you spray each side real good,
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it'll keep them crispy.
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Love and best dishes, y'all.
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