STOP!

Dear, that’s why I

always wash the chicken
before I cook it.

Oven Fried
Chicken
Recipe Inside! Washing
raw chicken
does not
you’re working so hard! kill the
bacteria.

I’ll cook your favorite:

Oven-Fried Chicken!

Grandma,
that’s nasty!

If you could see germs, you would see that

Washing poultry just splashes bacteria
But you love my all over you, the kitchen, and other foods.
fried chicken.

My iPad says raw

chicken can be covered
with bacteria.

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 You and Grandpa Here, USDA says the best way to That’s so now, do you know
could get sick. kill bacteria is to just cook it. simple. a simple way to
set the table?

You mean... Aww, gramma.

I can take the
chicken straight
out of the This material is based on work funded by the National Integrated Food Safety Initiative (NIFSI), United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA), under Agreement No. 2009-51110-05853. ©2013, NMSU Board of Regents.
package, into Drexel University and New Mexico State University cooperating with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Drexel
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then the oven?

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Oven Fried Chicken
Oven Fried Chicken
Yields 10 servings
Instructions
Serving Size: 1 piece
1. Preheat oven to 325 degrees F.
2. Spray baking sheets with
Ingredients nonstick cooking spray.
4 pounds bone-in chicken pieces 3. Coat chicken with yogurt, then
(such as thighs and drumsticks), roll in bread crumbs or crushed
skin removed cereal.
8 ounces yogurt, nonfat plain
4. Place chicken pieces on baking
1½ cup bread crumbs
sheets.
(or crushed cereal)
nonstick cooking spray 5. Bake in the oven for 1 hour,
turning the chicken pieces after
frst 30 minutes or when they
turn brown.

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