Coconut Crusted Chicken with Tropical Yogurt Sauce

Welcome to our weekly Foodie Friday link up! I’m linking up with Montana from Pretty Lil Mudder, Annmarie from the Fit Foodie Mama, Emily from Whatever Floats Your Oats, and Esther from Chocolate Runner Girl to create awesome healthy recipes each week! Today’s theme is “Chicken Dinner!” Make sure you hop around to check out all the amazing recipes in this link up and feel free to add your own recipes as well!

I made this back in the days of boards-studying (good food gave me something to look forward to in my otherwise rather-bleak existence), and brought some to school with me to share with my fellow basement dwellers in the catacombs.

I was told by not one, but two(!) souls that they would marry me on the basis of this recipe alone. I was pretty flattered, to say the least, but since they were not in-state* students and one was already married, I had to politely decline to both proposals.

*If I marry someone in-state, my tuition gets cut from $50k/year to $20k/year. It’s not so worth it now either because there’s only one year left where this would actually go into effect. Sigh!

Coconut Crusted Chicken with Mango Yogurt Sauce

Ingredients:
-6-7 chicken tenderloin pieces, cut into smaller strips
-2 eggs
-1/4 cup coconut flour*
-1/4 cup sweetened, shredded coconut*
-1 tsp curry powder
-1 tsp chili powder
-sea salt, to taste
-freshly ground black pepper, to taste
-vegetable oil + coconut oil

*For the coconut flour + shredded coconut, I’m really not a fan of wasting ingredients, so I would just start with a small amount and roll the chicken in em’ until they were evenly coated, adding more as necessary. These amounts are rough estimates to how much I used.
(Mango Yogurt Sauce)
-1/4 cup frozen pineapple/mango chunks, thawed
-2 pieces dried mango, diced
-orange juice
-3 heaping tbsp Fage 0% Greek yogurt
-sriracha, to taste

Instructions:
1) Combine curry powder, chili powder, salt and pepper into a small bowl and coat each piece of chicken in it. Then roll each piece in coconut flour.
2) In a separate bowl, beat two eggs. In a third bowl/container, pour in the coconut flakes.
3) Dip each piece of chicken in the egg mixture and then roll it in the coconut. Set aside.
4) Heat up some vegetable + coconut oil (I used a blend of both) in a large skillet and cook the chicken until ~165 F.
5) (Sauce) Add enough orange juice to blend the pineapple and mango chunks. Blend until smooth, then pour into a small bowl and mix with Greek yogurt. Add sriracha (to taste!).
6) Serve over a bed of greens and sprinkle with some more shredded coconut and some cubed mango.

In progress!

Pictured with the sauce!


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  1. Looks ah-mazing! I actually almost made coconut chicken and thankfully I didn’t because yours looks way better! I would have never thought of the tropical yogurt sauce!!!
    Annmarie recently posted…Foodie Friday: Caprese Stuffed Chicken DinnerMy Profile

    1. I was on a mission to finish up stuff in the fridge and thought it might be cool to attempt to make a sauce for it, haha. :D

  2. This is awesome! I’ve been craving coconut-crusted something and the typical answer is shrimp but I’m allergic soooo… this is a great substitution!
    Cassie @ Almost Getting It Together recently posted…Now Trending – Best Links Week of 8.11My Profile

    1. Yay, I’m glad! I can’t have shrimp either, so hooray for chicken! :]

  3. This looks delicious! I love coconut recipes I must start using it more. Maybe ill do coconut for next weeks dessert :-) PS. I love your rationale for the marriage proposals lol.
    Montana recently posted…Foodie Friday: Lemon Pepper Chicken Stir-Fry with Roasted CauliflowerMy Profile

    1. Same here! I don’t know how I ended up with so many bags of unsweetened coconut flakes, but I need to come up with something for them!

      I gotta be practical about it! :P

  4. O.M.G.

    YUM. Make that for me? Please and thank you.
    Susie @ SuzLyfe recently posted…Friday Favorites, Being Social, and New Balance Girls Night outMy Profile

    1. If I ever make it to Chicago, I can make that happen! :P

  5. Coconut crusted chicken that isn’t deep fried or sugar laden? I think I might propose!

    1. hahaha, you’re upping my count to 3 proposals with a single dish! This is great! :D!

  6. This looks SO good!! Definitely need to try this recipe!
    Emily@WhateverFloatsYourOats recently posted…Crock Pot Tomato and Basil Cream Cheese ChickenMy Profile

    1. Hope you like it if you do! :D!

  7. Love that we have such similar taste in chicken! :)
    And the proposals are so precious! Funny how a good meal can bring that on! Lol

    The sauce looks great! :)
    Esther recently posted…Foodie Friday Link-up! Winner, Winner, (Pad Thai) Chicken Dinner!My Profile

    1. hahaha, yes indeed! :P It was pretty flattering. :D I still need to try out the one you made the week before last (I’m so behind on making everything I’d like to make; augh!)!

  8. Wow, that looks delicious! Just pinned it :)
    Denise @ Healthy Disney Family recently posted…Best Protein Smoothie recipeMy Profile

    1. Yay! Thanks so much! :]

  9. This looks sooo good and couldn’t have come at a better time. I was actually planning on making something similar this week, but I really like the spices you added to the coating and that sauce sounds delish. Thanks for sharing!

    1. Yay! I’m so glad! :D I hope you like it!

  10. This looks lovely – I love the flavour of coconut with chicken and the sauce looks great!
    Rachael A recently posted…Lucy’s Last Meal of Freedom {Baked Chicken with Parmigiana Melanzane}My Profile

    1. Thank you! :D It fit in really nicely with my “let me use everything I already have in the fridge/kitchen so I don’t have to buy anything” theme. :P

  11. Looks fabulous!! Thanks for sharing at DDT!
    Alesha @ Full Time Mama recently posted…Head to Red Robin on August 20th for National Lemonade Day and Help Support Alexā€™s Lemonade Stand {Plus $25 Red Robin g/c Giveaway!}My Profile

    1. Thank you! :D Looking forward to next week!

  12. This looks incredible!! Thank you so much for linking up at Tasty Tuesday! Your recipe has been pinned to the Tasty Tuesday Pinterest board! Please join us again this week!

    1. Thanks! :]

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