Oven-Fried Panko Chicken

Ingredients

• Bread crumbs

  Dry, grated, plain

  2 cup or 216g

• Cayenne pepper

  Spices, red or cayenne

  ½ tsp or 0.9g

• Chicken, meat and skin and giblets and neck

  Broilers or fryers, raw

  1 chicken or 1.05kg

• Butter

  Unsalted

  1 stick or 113g

Directions

1. Rinse chicken and pat dry. Cut chicken into approximately 10 serving pieces, cutting breasts crosswise in half. Set out butter and let soften.
2. Preheat oven to 450F with rack in middle.
3. Stir together panko, cayenne, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a pie plate.
4. Stir together butter, 1/2 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper in a small bowl, then brush all over chicken. Add chicken, 2 pieces at a time, to crumb mixture and coat evenly on both sides, pressing chicken into crumbs to help them adhere, then transfer, skin side up, to a shallow baking pan.
5. Bake chicken until well browned and cooked through, 30 to 40 minutes. Let stand, uncovered, 5 to 10 minutes to crisp.