Spicy Chicken Sandwich

This sandwich came about from my love of Wendy's Spicy Chicken Sandwich. One day I decided I was going to try and create my own version of their sandwich. Using what I already know about spicy foods and breading chicken, along with some internet searching I came up with this recipe.

I will not claim that this is exactly like Wendy's version, you can tell by just looking at it, but I can tell you that it is good and spicy.

Spicy Chicken Sandwich

Ingredients:

• 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
• 1/4 cup all purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon black pepper
• 1/2 teaspoon onion powder
• 1/4 teaspoon paprika
• 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder
• 2 teaspoons cayenne pepper
• 1/3 cup Franks Original Red Hot Sauce
• panko bread crumbs
• 4 hamburger buns
• mayonnaise
• tomato
• lettuce

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 375°F. Put a rack onto a cookie sheet and spray the rack with cooking spray.
2. Combine the flour, pepper, onion powder, paprika, garlic powder, and cayenne pepper in a shallow bowl.
3. In another bowl pour the Franks sauce in.
4. In yet another bowl pour some panko bread crumbs in.
5. You will have three separate bowls at this point. Put the flour bowl first followed by the Franks bowl and last the panko bowl. This will make it easier for the dredging process.
6. Now take your chicken breasts and cut them to approximately the size of your buns (some hanging out is not a big deal you just don’t want too much hanging out.) If you chicken breasts are thicker than approximately 3/8 inch you will need to either pound them down or cook a bit longer in the oven.
7. Working with one chicken breast at a time, coat it in the flour mixture, then coat it in the Franks sauce, then coat it in the panko bread crumbs and then place onto the rack.
8. Once all chicken breasts have been dredged and coated put into oven for 20 minutes.
9. While the chicken is cooking spread mayonnaise onto the buns (if you like toasted buns put them into the toaster before you spread the mayonnaise) and add a slice of lettuce and tomato.
10. When chicken is done put onto bottom of bun and flip the top half onto the bottom half and serve hot.

Enjoy!!!

Serves: 4
Calories: 474.4
Total Fat: 7.5g
   Saturated: 0.5g
   Polyunsaturated: 2.1
   Monounsaturated: 1.0g
   Trans: 0g
Cholesterol: 115mg
Sodium: 500.4mg
Potassium: 86.1mg
Total Carbs: 40.5g
   Dietary Fiber: 1.9g
   Sugars: 3.9g
Protein: 58.7g
Vitamin A: 30.7%
Vitamin C: 10.8%
Calcium: 10.3%
Iron: 16.0%
*The nutritional information will vary slightly depending on the brands you use.