Parmesan Crusted Chicken Strips with Crockpot Baked Potatoes

This meal is super easy and so delicious. I started the potatoes before I went to work this morning in a crockpot and yum!  If you have never made baked potatoes this way, now you need to start.  This is a meal that my whole family loves so it quickly became one of our favorites!

So I'm going to start with the potatoes since you need to let them cook all day.

Crock Pot Baked Potatoes:

1 potato for every person (plus a few extra to use as leftovers for breakfast)

olive oil

sea salt

foil

 

Tear off a piece of foil for each potato, making sure it's big enough to wrap the potato in it.  Drizzle some olive oil on 1 piece of foil, put a pinch of sea salt, or another coarse salt, then rub a potato around in it coating all sides as good as possible.  You don't want to use too much oil.  Then add some salt on the top side of the potato.

 

Continue to do this to all the potatoes.  Place in a crock pot and set on low for about 8 hours.

 

Ok, so it's time to start the chicken and the potatoes are done.  Just leave them in the crock pot while you make the chicken strips.  Mine were frozen so I laid the strips out on paper towels on a cookie sheet and thawed for about 2.5 hours.

Parmesan Crusted Chicken Strips:

3-4 chicken strips per person

1 1/2 cups Italian breadcrumbs (may need more)

1 1/2 cups shredded Parmesan cheese (may need more)

2-3 egg whites (depends how many strips.  I did 12 strips and used 2 eggs)

Coconut oil (or other good frying oil of your choice)

 

Put the egg whites in one bowl and mix together the Parmesan cheese and breadcrumbs in another bowl.  At this time preheat a couple of skillets on medium heat with coconut oil.  First dip a chicken strip in the egg whites and then the cheese/breadcrumb mixture until coated.  

 

Then place in the heated skillet.  I will also sprinkle a little of the cheese mixture on top of the strips after I place them in the skillet.  Cook on one side until they are only the raw pink color on top and then flip over.

 

I then put them on a plate with paper towels to drain any excess oil.  These strips are so delicious and the Parmesan leaves the best coating on them.  The kids devour them every time we make them.  I put them along side my crock pot baked potatoes and steamed broccoli. Simply Delicious