Crunchy Baked Quinoa Chicken

A crispy baked quinoa chicken – so simple and healthy! Basil, Mozzarella, Olives… it smell like Italy.

What is your opinion about quinoa? I think that’s the thing for the cool kids right now and it’s healthy and easy to mix in your meal. So why deny it? I like it in my salad, to replace rice in Asian dishes and now as a breadcrumbs for my chicken.

Here is the step by step recipe:

1) Start with seasoning the chicken. Very simple, a litlle salt and pepper.

2) Mix italian spices with cooked quinoa. Add a little salt and pepper. Then pour the chicken in the flour, then in the egg and finally in the quinoa breadcrumbs.

You should get this nice breading around your chicken:

3) Cook the tomato sauce of your choice. I took a basil tomato sauce 🙂

4) Cut mozarella cheese into cubes and olives into slices.

5) Put all together: put chicken on a parchment-lined baking sheet. Coat each chicken with yummy tomato sauce, add the mozzarella cubes and sliced olives on top. Cook at 430° F (220° C) for about 20 minutes.

6) Meanwhile, you can cook linguine and coat with the remaining basil tomato sauce.

PS: I try to write in english but it isn’t my first language. Sorry if you find some mistakes.