These Crispy Pickle-Brined Hen Sandwiches are a scrumptious, lightened-up strategy to substitute your favourite fried hen sandwich! I like the pickle-brined taste of a hen sandwich from Chick-fil-A, however at simply 377 energy or 6 WW Factors every, these sandwiches are more healthy than their quick meals counterparts, and simply as tasty. The hen will be cooked in your air fryer (really useful) or oven and will probably be completely crispy on the skin and juicy on the within when completed. I like so as to add lettuce, tomato, a bit of sunshine mayo and extra pickles and serve it on a comfortable sandwich roll – perfection! To view your present WW Factors for this recipe and monitor it within the WW app, click on right here.
Air Fryer or Oven?
I’ve made the hen for these Crispy Pickle-Brined Hen Sandwiches in my air fryer and in my oven and supplied path for each within the recipe directions under. When you’ve got each choices obtainable, I like to recommend cooking the hen in your air fryer as a result of the skin will get crispier, which I choose. For those who don’t have an air fryer, the oven remains to be an awesome choice and can make scrumptious hen on your sandwich.
Do I have to pre-heat my air fryer?
I’ve seen a lot of combined details about this. Some sources say you completely should pre-heat your air fryer and a few say you needn’t hassle. I feel it in all probability is determined by the model of air fryer you personal, so you might need to test your guide. I’ve a COSORI model air fryer and don’t pre-heat for this recipe. I see that Philips (one other widespread model) additionally says you don’t have to pre-heat. For those who’re undecided about your specific mannequin, be happy to simply run it for a couple of minutes earlier than you add the hen to make sure.
Recipe Notes
- Pickles: I like Claussen kosher dill pickles and for my part, nothing else compares. Nonetheless, you probably have a special model of dill pickles available, positively use what you will have! I used the pickle juice left over after utilizing all of the pickles in a 20 ounce jar, which was about 1 ¼ cup. I did use a superb strainer to get all of the floating components out of the pickle juice earlier than I poured it over the hen.
- Sandwich Rolls: I used Martin’s Potato Sandwich Rolls and they’re tremendous tasty on this recipe! These are one of many sandwich rolls/hamburger buns my household buys typically.
- Re-heating: To re-heat my hen cutlets when there’s leftovers I often simply switch a cutlet from the fridge proper again into my air fryer and warmth it up at 350 for about 5 minutes till it’s crispy on the skin and heated via once more.
Hen Cutlets
Thinly reduce hen cutlets are bought within the meat part of most grocery shops, so positively be happy to simply seize these for this recipe. I typically purchase massive bulk packs of boneless, skinless hen breasts at my grocery retailer after which use kitchen shears to trim them down into the sizes and styles I exploit continuously in recipes. It’s cheaper to purchase the breasts in bulk and since I exploit hen breasts loads in my recipes it is sensible for me! I usually reduce the large hen breasts widthwise into cutlets (often 4 oz – 6 oz every) like those used on this recipe. Any hen that’s reduce off to make these I then reduce into small chunks to make hen bites. It’s simple to weigh out 1 lb or extra of hen chunks or tenders and a few 4, 5, or 6 oz cutlets and freeze them for later in quart measurement freezer baggage. That manner, I all the time have some cutlets and a few hen bites available to make use of in my recipes! I like to recommend reducing the hen down utilizing kitchen shears slightly than a knife, it simply works extra shortly and simply, for my part.
Extra Tasty Lightened Up Hen Recipes:
Searching for extra tasty, lightened up recipes utilizing hen breasts? Try my Crispy Hen Caesar Sandwiches, Spicy Hen Sandwiches, Air Fryer Hen Tenders, Tacky Backyard Vegetable Baked Hen, Barbecue Rubbed Hen Bites, Mexican Avenue Corn Hen, Tacky Broccoli Stuffed Hen, Lemon Pepper Hen Bites, Nashville Sizzling Hen Bites, Crispy Hen Parmesan, Apple and Brie Stuffed Hen, Strawberry Balsamic Grilled Hen, Blackened Hen Bites, Cream Cheese and Herb Stuffed Hen, Tuscan Olive Hen, Barbecue Bacon Wrapped Hen Tenders, Pimento Cheese Stuffed Hen, Cream Cheese Stuffed All the things Hen, and lots of extra within the Hen part of my recipe index!
Crispy Pickle-Brined Hen Sandwiches
These Crispy Pickle-Brined Hen Sandwiches are a scrumptious, lightened-up quick meals swap!
- 1 cup pickle juice, (the leftover brine from a pickle jar)
- 4 (4 oz every) skinny raw boneless skinless hen breast cutlets, (1 lb whole)
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon black pepper
- ¼ teaspoon garlic powder
- ¼ teaspoon dried dill weed
- ¼ teaspoon paprika
- ¼ teaspoon sugar
- 2 massive egg whites, crushed
- ⅔ cup plain panko breadcrumbs
- ½ teaspoon dried parsley flakes
- 4 sandwich rolls or hamburger buns, (I used Martin’s Potato Sandwich Rolls)
- 4 leaves inexperienced leaf lettuce
- 4-8 slices tomato
- 4-8 “sandwich slice” model pickles, (I used Claussen Sandwich Slices)
- 2 tablespoons mild mayonnaise, (I used Hellmann’s mild)
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Place the hen cutlets right into a gallon zip-seal plastic bag or a shallow bowl. Pour the pickle juice over the hen. Seal the bag or cowl the bowl and place within the fridge for 6-8 hours to marinate.
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Place a colander in your sink and dump the hen and pickle juice in to empty the hen. Let it sit for a pair minutes to empty whilst you make your seasoning combine.
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In a small dish, combine collectively the flour, salt, pepper, garlic powder, dill, paprika, and sugar. Place the brined and drained hen cutlets right into a mixing bowl. Add the seasoning combine to the hen items. Stir the contents of the bowl till the hen cutlets are coated with the spices.
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In a shallow dish, beat the egg whites totally. In a separate shallow dish, stir collectively the bread crumbs and parsley till combined.
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One by one, take the seasoning-coated hen cutlets and coat them within the egg white combination. Permit any extra egg to drip off after which press the hen cutlet into the bread crumb combine and flip in order that either side are coated in crumbs.
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Air Fryer (really useful): Switch the crumb-coated hen to the basket of your air fryer in a single layer with out the cutlets touching one another. Evenly mist the tops of the hen with cooking spray. Set the air fryer to 400 levels Fahrenheit and cook dinner for six minutes. Flip the cutlets over and mist the tops with cooking spray. Proceed to air fry your hen for one more 6 minutes till cooked via. Oven: Pre-heat oven to 425 levels Fahrenheit. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. When the hen cutlets are crumb-coated, switch them to the baking sheet and calmly mist the tops with cooking spray. Place the tray within the oven and cook dinner for 8 minutes. Flip the cutlets and mist once more with cooking spray. Return them to the oven for one more 8 minutes or till cooked via.
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To construct every sandwich, place a lettuce leaf on the underside half of a sandwich roll and high it with 1-2 slices of tomato. Place a cooked hen cutlet on high of the tomatoes and place one or two pickle slices on high of the hen. Unfold 1 ½ teaspoons of sunshine mayonnaise onto the within of the highest half of the bun after which place the highest bun on high of the sandwich. Repeat to make 4 sandwiches (when you aren’t serving all 4 directly, maintain the components separate and construct the sandwiches as wanted). Serve instantly.
WW Factors per sandwich: 6 (Factors calculated utilizing the recipe builder on weightwatchers.com)
Vitamin Data per sandwich
377 energy, 42 g carbs, 7 g sugar, 7 g fats, 1 g saturated fats, 38 g protein, 2 g fiber, 497 mg sodium (from myfitnesspal.com)
Weight Watchers Factors Plus:
10 per sandwich (PP calculated utilizing a Weight Watchers PointsPlus calculator and the diet data under)
