This Crispy Garlic Ranch Chicken Recipe is quick and easy to make and pairs perfectly with our recipe for Garlic Ranch Potatoes and Peppers.
My 7-year-old nephew loooooves to cook. He is an expert smoothie maker and he has wonderful food presentation skills. He is also a BIG fan of cooking shows on TV.
He has picked up a pretty impressive amount of knowledge about cooking terms and concepts. I’m really interested to see if this cooking interest continues. With this head start he could be a great chef by the time he reaches adulthood!
Yesterday my little chef went to the store with me to pick up some ingredients and then helped to create this yummy Crispy Garlic Ranch Chicken recipe along with a side of Garlic Ranch Potatoes and Peppers.
He is actually very good at (and careful about) cutting vegetables and handled all of that, which is really the most time-consuming part of either recipe.
My nephew obviously enjoyed this cooking experience because my sister texted me this message late last night:
I had to laugh because that “fancy pan” was nothing more than a baking rack placed over a 9×13 cake pan. Very fancy indeed!
I originally created this recipe using Hidden Valley Ranch Roasted Garlic dressing, but unfortunately that flavor has been discontinued.
Crispy Garlic Ranch Chicken Recipe
Ingredients:
1.5 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breast
1 cup Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing
2 cups panko crumbs
1 tsp garlic powder
1 tsp paprika
salt and pepper
How to Make Garlic Ranch Chicken:
Cut chicken into “chicken tender sized” pieces.
Place in a bowl with Hidden Valley Ranch and mix well. Let sit at least an hour, but the longer the better (preferably overnight).
Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
Place panko crumbs in a shallow bowl and stir in paprika, salt and pepper.
One by one, place the chicken pieces in the crumbs to coat both sides. Place on a greased baking rack.
Bake approximately one hour or until cooked through and golden, turning once.
We made the potatoes recipe at the same time. To save space in the oven I placed the rack with chicken right on top of the pan with the potatoes. That’s what turned it into the “fancy pan”.
Garlic Ranch Potatoes and Peppers Recipe
Ingredients:
1.5 pounds young red potatoes
1/3 cup Hidden Valley Ranch Roasted Garlic
1/2 medium onion
1/2 red pepper
1/2 green pepper
salt and pepper
1 Tbsp fresh cilantro, chopped (optional)
olive oil
How to Make Garlic Ranch Potatoes and Peppers:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Generously coat the bottom and sides of a 9×13 baking dish with olive oil.
Quarter the potatoes and slice the onion and peppers.
Mix potatoes and veggies with Hidden Valley Ranch and the salt and pepper and cilantro if using.
Pour into pan. Bake approximately one hour or until potatoes are tender and starting to brown.
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Crispy Garlic Ranch Chicken
Ingredients
- 1.5 pounds boneless skinless chicken breast
- 1 cup Hidden Valley Ranch Dressing
- 2 cups panko crumbs
- 1 tsp garlic
- 1 tsp paprika
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- Cut chicken into “chicken tender sized” pieces.
- Place in a bowl with Hidden Valley Ranch and mix well.
- Let sit at least an hour, but the longer the better (preferably overnight).
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Place panko crumbs in a shallow bowl and stir in paprika, salt and pepper.
- One by one, place the chicken pieces in the crumbs to coat both sides.
- Place on a greased baking rack.
- Bake approximately one hour or until cooked through and golden, turning once.
evie says
Instructions for chicken is the ingredients… where are the instructions?
Chrysa says
The instructions are right under the ingredients list.
Kiwi says
This presentation is amazing! Looks delish I am gonna pin this for later!
Shannon Gurnee says
This recipe looks and sounds amazing! I would love to try making this for my family sometime. Thanks for sharing.
Brandy says
Hidden Valley ranch dressing is my go-to brand for ranch, I have tired other brands of ranch without success. Thanks for the recipe 🙂
Cinny says
Even the name is sounding delicious! I’d love to test this recipe out, I think it’d be a hit in our home.
Rosey says
That is a good sounding recipe. My grown signs would really like this one, I’m sure. Chicken is always a hit, add ranch and yeah, that’s a go. 🙂 Happy 4th to you!
Beth@FrugalFroggie says
Looks fabulous. Would be nice to make that to change up dinner.
Jennifer says
Sounds delicious! I don’t have a baking rack, would a baking pan work?