For Valentine's Day, Lola and I made him a LOVE CAKE (so NOT Paleo) and I decided to get a little creative with the coconut.
Love Cake: banana cake, coconut filling topped with powdered sugar. |
During my Florida days I used to love to go to Shooter's and get the Coconut Shrimp so thought I would try making Coconut Chicken for dinner.
I cut up boneless, skinless chicken breast into tenders and set aside.
Then I set up my COCO-NUTTING station:
in the first bowl I added about a cup of coconut flour. Then in a second bowl I added 3 eggs mixed with about 3TB coconut milk and in the last bowl I added unsweetened shredded coconut
roll your chicken tenders in the coconut flour--then dip into the egg mixture-then cover in the shredded coconut.
In my saute pan, I melted some coconut oil and browned each chicken tender until golden.
Once browned, put onto a baking sheet or stone and finish in the oven (400*) for about 15 mins or so.
I served this with a giant green salad and lightly steamed broccoli-you gotta leave some crunch in it!
Easy and it was a nice change of pace. I love coconut so I will definitely make this one again. I think I will try to figure out a good sweet/spicy chili dipping sauce in the meantime!
Don't forget to enter the TOUGH CHIK giveaway. All the cool kids are doing it--Right Kovas?
Speaking of Tough Chik--did you see that EMZ is running for 24 hours on her Treadmill in May to support The Sojourner Center? Call I get a collective "YOU FREAKING ROCK EMZ?"
Yum! I like coconut, but the man really isn't a fan so unfortunately I don't think that meal will get to debut at our house.
ReplyDeleteok what a great day i happened to stop by, thanks for those links!! i have been wanting to know more about paleo so i'll be looking back through your posts!
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That looks so yummy! I love coconut!
ReplyDeleteNow as a vegetarian the substitute here would be tempeh and it would taste awesome in that coconut. Marinate in some melted coconut oil first and then do all the steps and hello.....heaven on a plate.
ReplyDeleteI am going to have to add this idea to my menu. Working on a pizza for tomorrow night I believe.
That looks *delish*! Definitely going on my to make list!
ReplyDeleteAll of that looks amazing-yum! Feel a need for a little copy-cat session in my future!
ReplyDeletemmmmmm Coconut!!!
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That looks so yummy.
ReplyDeleteI really don't know what Paleo is, but I would probably like it if it includes coconut. I mix coconute flakes with flour and encrust fish. Chix looks good too.
ReplyDeleteThat cake is balla' yo! I don't even think that I could manage getting a fork to eat it with, it would be gone that.fast. :D
ReplyDeleteI took one look at that cake and said now how can that be Paleo?? I LOVE COCONUT!!! I made a shrimp dish with coconut rice (I know not Paleo) last night. I am definitely making that chicken!
ReplyDeleteYummy! All of that looks awesome!
ReplyDeleteYUM!!! I am totally making that cake,Jen.
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing :)