Classic Crispy Baked Chicken {Dairy Free}

This classic recipe for crispy baked chicken doesn’t use milk or buttermilk to coat the chicken strips, instead we substituted with rice milk to make them dairy free!

There are a lot of kids who have a problem digesting dairy. But there are so many substitutes these days, that these kids don’t have to avoid their classic favorites, like crispy baked chicken.  We have so many chicken strips recipes, but not a lot of them are dairy free.

Rice milk is a great substitute for oven baked crispy chicken.   Buttermilk is traditionally used because soaking the chicken in buttermilk helps to tenderize the meat. But, you can get perfectly tender chicken by buying fresh chicken, and not over cooking it in the oven!   We basically used the rice milk for coating the chicken so our crispy panko crust could stick properly, and not for tenderizing it.   While we also like almond milk and soy milk, rice milk is the most tolerable of the three for kids who have food sensitivities.

So, to make this chicken we whisked together a little rice milk with lemon juice.  This is both for flavor and helping the crust adhere to the crispy chicken.   Then we cut our chicken into strips. You can use chicken tenders as well!  (see my post on the difference between chicken tenders, tenderloins, and chicken strips!)

After cutting, we soaked the chicken in our rice milk/lemon juice mixture.  You can do this as long as you like, even over  night! Then, to get the chicken crispy, we combined panko (super crispy!!) nutritional yeast (this makes it taste cheesy) and our seasonings. We used garlic powder and onion powder.  

Then we baked until crispy! Again, do not over cook! If the purpose of using milk or buttermilk in crispy chicken is to tenderize the meat, and you aren’t getting the tenderizing affects from dairy, use a meat thermometer and don’t over cook your meat!  It can stay moist and tender cooked at the right temperature!

For more dinner ideas like chicken strips, we have so many!  Check out these:

• Crispy Baked Parmesan Chicken Strips
• Sweet and tangy, BBQ chicken tenders
• Ranch Crusted chicken nuggets
• Chicken fingers with dipping sauce
• Quinoa coated chicken nuggets
• Toddler perfect chicken nuggets

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