Kids Cooking With Rice Crispies
Published by Carolin on Tagged Chicken
Kids cooking. I love seeing kids cook or help with the preparation of meals. I also love kid friendly recipes that the whole family can enjoy. Recently we have changed our oldest sons diet to a gluten free casein free diet. I should say we almost have. He still gets a tiny bit of dairy in the form of butter and if he is having rice crispies than he still gets a bit of cows milk. The gluten part has been cut out. So I said if we were changing his diet than all of us were going to change our diets as well. I did not want one of us to be able to have something and he couldn’t. So that brings me to recipes. Most recipes have some form of gluten or casein. Just in case you don’t know what casein is. It is found in dairy. So now I am in the search of gluten and casein free recipes or I am changing existing recipes to fit into this diet.
Now it is hard enough changing an almost 8 year olds diet. Then you start messing with some of his favorite foods. You have to be very careful and very strategic. So one of the first recipes I decided to experiment with was chicken strips. Now cooking chicken strips is pretty easy. There are a ton of recipes out there. But none without gluten. So I decided I would try my own. I used Rice Crispies. Now I used an organic brand not the run of the mill ones because the ones I used were with organic brown rice and half the ingredients than the ones from the national brand. I used Natures Path Crispy Rice. You can use what ever you have or desire.
Well I made them and my oldest was in a mood so he didn’t have any but my youngest just loved them. My husband and I loved them as well. My husband even took the leftovers in his lunch. They were so easy to cook and prepare. Kids would love to help cook these. My oldest did help cook that night and prepare the salad. He just chose not to eat, which is all to do with this diet change. I encourage you to get your kids cooking and this is a perfect recipe to start with.
Rice Crispy Chicken Strips
4 chicken breast sliced into strips
2-3 cups Rice Crispies crushed
1tsp onion powder
1 tsp garlic powder
Salt
Preheat oven to 400°F
Mix the above ingredients except chicken and spread on a plate. Dip chicken in water or milk. Then dip into rice crispy mixture. Place on a sheet pan lined with parchment paper.
Bake in oven for about 20 -25 minutes.
I serve these with mayonnaise and mustard mixed together. Use whatever mustard you like. My oldest dips his chicken strips into honey.
COOKING TIP OF THE DAY
If your kids are handling the chicken be sure to have them thoroughly wash there hands.
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