Almond Flour Air Fried Chicken

It was a tough work week, and I wanted some comfort food on Friday night. At the suggestion of my wonderful fiance Carolyn Flynn I bought a bag of Almond Flower at Wegmans on my last trip to Fredericksburg. While I just recently wrote up my Air-Fried Fried Chicken, I used all purpose flour. Tonight I wanted fried chicken, and decided to go the air fryer route (of course) but with the almond flour. And I upped my seasoning a bit to include Chipolte Powder and some Tony’s Cajun Seasoning. Also, to make it interesting, in my flour dredge (garlic powder, onion powder, black pepper, poultry seasoning, basil, oregano, paprika) I also picked up some New Mexico Green Chile & Garlic flakes I scored at the Sante Fe Olive Oil & Balsamic Co while in Santa Fe just over a week ago (with my honey, of course).

I did the normal egg/butter milk run and then a dredge, but I only did it once because almond flour is a little more grainy than all purpose flour, thus it doesn’t stick as much.

I served this air-fried broccoli (broccoli florets coated with a light seasoning and a bit of olive oil, tossed, the fried for 6 minutes) and some garlic-smash potatoes (Baking potato with skin on, sliced and boiled with 4 cloves of garlic, mashed with butter, milk, poultry seasoning and black pepper, salt as needed).

Usually potatoes aren’t in my diet, but I had two small ones left from my Christmas Prime Rib feast, and decided to end the year on a bang. Yes, I behaved and only had one drumstick with dinner.

Great, comforting meal after a long, hard week. The almond flour gave me that nice ‘Fried Chicken’ crunch. But no flour, and of course, no oil. Tomorrow I’ll end it with a big feast with my sweetheart, and then go back to eating healthy again!

Meanwhile, I have lunch for a week, one piece of chicken with a small salad. My favorite lunch.

UPDATE:
While this was certainly great, I added too many seasonings. Tonight I made my own basic dredge and it was great:

1 Cup almond flour
1 tspn cayenne
1 tspn garlic powder
1 tspn onion powder
2 tspn salt
2 tspn black pepper
1 cup buttermilk (1 cup milk + 1 tablespoon vinegar)
2 eggs.

The above was perfect for 2 leg quarters. And I let the chicken soak in the buttermilk/egg for about 10 minutes.