Crispy chicken and barbecue sauce

Sometimes, life just demands junk food. But you know, fancy junk food. With Actually Identifiable Ingredients and delicious sauces. 

Crispy chicken

1 cup polenta

1 cup bread crumbs

1 tablespoon linseed, poppy seeds or ground almonds

1/2 teaspoon garlic salt or lemon pepper

1 cup flour

1 egg

1 chicken breast

Heat the oven up to 200C while you get cooking. In a mixing bowl, stir together the polenta, bread crumbs, garlic salt or lemon pepper, and seeds/ground almonds. Set up your dipping station with three bowls - put your flour in the first bowl, the egg into your second bowl and give it a quick scramble with a fork, and finally your bread crumb mixture.

Cut the chicken breast into strips of roughly the same size, so they all cook evenly. Dip each strip in each of the bowls so they're nicely covered in mixture - first the flour, then the egg, then the bread crumbs. Lay out the strips on a tray covered with baking paper. 

Cook in the oven for about 15 minutes - cut one of the strips in half to check it's cooked through. Feel free to eat this one as a treat. You did cook dinner, after all!

Cheat's barbecue sauce

1 tablespoon tomato sauce

1 tablespoon HP sauce

1 tablespoon pineapple or orange juice

1/2 teaspoon Worcester sauce

1/2 teaspoon soy sauce

Mix together in a bowl, smear on everything.