Healthy Ranch Chicken Recipe
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This Ranch Cornflake Chicken is a high-protein dinner that is also low in calories and Weight Watchers points. You only need four ingredients to make this chicken, and the crunch is amazing! This is one dinner that your whole family will love!
Chicken is one of those proteins for dinner that the whole family loves and is easy to cook up as well. Using either homemade ranch seasoning or store-bought ranch seasoning and it will pair perfectly with the cereal breading. This is perfect to serve with an easy side of vegetables or salad.
Why You’ll Love This Cornflake Recipe
- Easy To Prep
- Not Fried
- Easy Cleanup
- High protein and kid approved
Ranch Cornflake Chicken Ingredients
- Sour Cream– Using a lower-fat sour cream or Greek yogurt will lower the point value for this recipe.
- Corn Flakes
- Hidden Valley Ranch Seasoning – You can use packets or dry ranch seasoning from a container to make this, or try our Homemade Ranch Seasoning, which is amazing in this dish!
- Boneless Skinless Chicken Breast
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How To Make Baked Chicken With Cornflakes
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
In a zipper bag, crush cornflakes and combine them with ranch seasoning.
If your chicken breasts are really large, you can cut them down or even into strips if you want.
Coat your chicken breast with sour cream or Nonfat Greek yogurt, and I did mine lightly, just enough to make the seasoning stick to the chicken breast.
Place a breast in the zipper bag and shake to coat in cornflake mixture.
Spray a 9×13 baking dish with a nonstick spray.
Remove the chicken breast from the bag and place it in your pan.
Repeat these steps until all breasts are covered.
Take the remaining cornflake mixture and cover the chicken breasts
Bake for 45 minutes, or until the chicken breast is cooked thoroughly. Use a meat thermometer to verify that the temperature is 165 degrees Fahrenheit or higher.
Allow to rest 3 to 5 minutes before serving. You can see how juicy they turn out, too!!
weight watchers cornflake chicken Point Value Breakdown
Be sure you recalculate as you make yours with the calculator in the Weight Watchers App. Weight Watcher point values may vary by brand, and you can lower the points on this by using low-fat sour cream or non fat greek yogurt.
When prepared according to the recipe card and serving 4, this dish is 5 points on the plan, effective November 2024. (With nonfat Greek yogurt, the WW points are 2 points.)
Macros For Ranch Chicken With Cornflakes
The macros, when made following the recipe card, are 246 calories, 13 grams of carbs, 8 grams of fat, and 28 grams of protein.
With nonfat Greek yogurt, the macros are calories are 190, 16 grams of carbs, 1 gram of fat, and 29 grams of protein.
I calculated this information using a third-party tool and are meant to be a helpful reference only. Actual values will vary based on the specific ingredients, brands, and portion sizes you use.
What to serve with healthy Cornflake ranch chicken recipe
The side dish doesn’t matter, but if you are having a higher point day, you will want to go for a low-point side dish. If you have a lot of zero-point foods, you can have a higher-point-value side dish with this.
Side Dishes: Air Fryer Bacon Asparagus, Garlic Mashed Potatoes, Oven Roasted Baby Potatoes, Air Fryer Brussell Sprouts, Green Beans, Ceasar Salad, Acorn Squash, Green Salad, Baked Sweet Potatoes, Steamed Broccoli, Grilled Zucchini, Grilled Corn On The Cob, Air Fryer Zucchini Chips
What is your go-to chicken recipe for Weight Watchers?
How To Store Ranch Chicken With Corn Flakes
Allow to cool down completely. Store in an airtight container or a ziplock bag in the fridge for up to three days.
ww Chicken recipes
I have a collection of Chicken Dinners that are low in WW points and calories. Below are some of my favorites! (You can see the collection -> here)
Chicken Breast Recipes With Ranch Dressing Mix
Ranch-seasoned chicken is always a hit with the whole family and is so easy to make! These are a couple of my family’s favorite recipes!
- Creamy Ranch Chicken Skillet Dinner
- Crockpot Ranch Chicken Dinner
- Air Fryer Chicken Tenders
- Instant Pot Crack Chicken
Weight Watchers Cornflake Chicken Recipe With Ranch
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Ingredients
- 1/2 Cup Sour Cream
- 2 Cups Corn Flakes
- 6 Tablespoon Ranch Seasoning
- 1 Pound boneless skinless chicken breasts
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees
- In a zipper bag crush cornflakes and combine with ranch seasoning
- Coat your chicken breast with sour cream, I did mine lightly, just enough to make the seasoning stick to the chicken breast.
- Place a breast in the zipper bag and shake to coat in corn flake mixture
- Spray a 9×13 baking dish with a nonstick spray
- Remove the chicken breast from the bag and place in your pan
- Repeat these steps till all breasts are covered
- Take remaining mixture and cover the chicken breasts
- Bake for 45 minutes till chicken breast is cooked thoroughly
I love fried chicken. This looks like a great way to get the taste with a lot fewer calories.
I love a good chicken recipe! I have so much chicken breast on hand so it is great to have a variety of recipes.
I’m going to have to say that this is my favorite Weight Watchers chicken recipe. I’ve never tried Weight Watchers, but I DO love a good ranch chicken recipe. Yum!
Those look delicious! I’ll have to try this recipe!
Love this!
~Lorelai
I’ve done this with minor modifications…ranch seasoning mix packet and the chicken dipped in melted butter or egg wash. Wondering how that changes the point value?
Sounds like a delicious recipe – thanks for sharing! Blessings, Janet
I think I am adding this to our family menu this week. Thanks for sharing with us all.
This looks like a recipe that my girls would LOVE! Ranch dressing on just about anything is their favorite.
A great weight watching chicken recipe Jenny
Chicken is always good with a little crunch! Thanks for sharing at FTAF, hope you’ll join us again next week! Pinned.
We love fried chicken but it’s a mess to clean up and of course so high in fat! This is a great alternative and has all the satisfaction of the crunch!
Could you use plain nonfat Greek yogurt in place of sour cream?
You can it will change the taste. I’ve tried cooking with it and personally didn’t care for it.
It was delicious! By accident I grabbed a pack of Ranch Dill Seasoning instead of Regular Ranch Seasoning but it still turned out perfect. Also, instead of Corn Flakes I chose to use roasted vegetable flavored Ritz crackers. Plus I switched sour cream for plane low fat yogurt. Paired it with a kale salad of my own mixing. Yummers, it even taste good as left overs.
I had no idea they make a Ranch Dill Seasoning!! That sounds amazing with the Ritz! Glad you liked it!
Can this be made in an air fryer?
Yes it can!
That sounds delicious! I am always looking for new WW recipes that the whole family will love and I know they’ll love this one! Pinned.
Looks yummy! I pinned it to my recipes to try board on Pinterest.
How many ww points would this be?
Wonder if you could put the chicken on a bed of broccoli and then cook in the oven.