Very Best Baked Chicken

Very Best Baked Chicken

4 chicken breasts, boneless-skinless, trimmed
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup plain bread crumbs
1 t garlic salt
1 t ground black pepper
3 eggs
1 c milk
2 c vegetable or canola oil

1. In a medium sized sauce pan, preheat oil over medium heat (a thermometer should read that the oil has been heated to 350F). Preheat oven to 400F
2. Prepare breading sequence- mix flour with garlic salt and pepper in one bowl. In the next bowl, mix eggs with milk. In the third bowl, place bread crumbs
3. To bread chicken- coat with flour, then egg wash, followed by the flour again, with a second coat of the egg wash, and finished off with the bread crumbs (flour, egg, flour, egg, bread crumbs)
4. Cook chicken, 1 piece at a time, for 2-3 minutes on each side, to brown breading
5. Place pre-cooked chicken in a Pyrex or ceramic dish and continue to cook in oven for 10-15 minutes, until chicken is fully cooked
6. Let chicken rest for 5-10 minutes before serving