Ace Kickstart® Blackened Chicken

Ace Kickstart® Blackened Chicken

INGREDIENTS

FOR THE BLACKENED CHICKEN:

• 2 pounds chicken tenders (or pounded thin butterflied, boneless-skinless chicken breasts)
• 1 teaspoon avocado oil
• Ace Kickstart®

LET’S GET COOKING

1. We cooked this recipe on a Blackstone, but you can cook it on any grill or a thick-bottomed skillet on the stovetop inside.   Preheat your cooking surface to high heat.
2. In a mixing bowl, add about a teaspoon of avocado oil to the dried chicken fingers or dried, flattened, boneless-skinless chicken breasts and mix.  The goal is a super thin coating of oil evenly across the surface of the chicken.  Lay the chicken out on a cookie sheet and sprinkle generously with Ace Kickstart®, then use tongs to flip them and do the other side.
3. When your cooking surface is ready, add the chicken to the cook surface and cover. Generally, I would say to check in 5-minute increments to just peek at the bottom (and poke with a thermometer toward the end) since each cooking surface cooks differently and cook time will vary depending on the thickness of the chicken.
4. Flip when you peek at the bottom and think it’s time to flip.
5. Your Ace Kickstart Blackened Chicken is finished when it’s 165°F in the center of the thickest part and running clear liquids when you poke it.