Baked Coconut Chicken and Brown Rice with Lime

Well, as usual, it's been far too long since I've given you all something tasty to read. My apologies. I've been busy and my blogs are usually so long. But this one is going to get right straight to it. 

Baked Coconut Chicken

You will need:

Maybe 4 Chicken breasts

1 can of coconut milk

Sweetened coconut flakes

Bread crumbs

Preheat your oven to 375 degrees F. You take your boneless chicken breasts and make sure they are thawed out. About an hour or two before you want to start cooking, marinade your chicken breasts in coconut milk. It is brown and white can and the milk (if I remember correctly) is from Thailand. Make sure you shake the can before opening.

 Let the chicken soak in the milk for an hour and a half to 2 hours. Once your chicken has soaked for however long, mix together a 1/2 cup of coconut flakes and a little bit of bread crumbs on a plate. Mix it so that the flakes and crumbs are about even amounts. Take your chicken and take off the excess milk that is still sticking to the meat. Now get a nice coat of the flake/crumb mixture on the chicken and place your chicken on a baking sheet. Repeat until all of your chicken is coated. If you happen to run out of coconut and crumbs, just add more to the plate of each. I had to do that. Make sure you wash your hands first because you don't want to get salmonella.

Place your baking sheet in the oven and depending on the thickness of the chicken breast it may take up to an hour to bake. Mine were pretty thin so I baked mine for about 50 minutes. If you aren't sure how long, just keep checking your chicken without getting burned. 

When making the brown rice, follow the instructions on the bag depending on the amount of servings you want to make. When it is finished, plate your chicken and your rice. Add a squeeze of a half of a lime to your rice and a little on your chicken if you'd like. I think you get the best taste when you mix a bite of chicken with some of the rice. 

Very very good! 

And healthy!

I also had a nice chopped romaine salad with olive oil, apple cider vinegar, avocado, and mushrooms. This meal filled me right up and I didn't feel bad for eating it! 

I mean of course if you wanted a crunchier crust, you could always fry it up in a pan too. That sounds pretty tasty! Just a suggestion. 

Enjoy!