Chicken Biscuit Breakfast

Last year we covered a pretty wide range of mouth watering morning meals - from breakfast sandwiches to the always amazing breakfast burrito, along with those times we revisited breakfast and even revisited it again just because breakfast is so awesome.

This year our focus has been more on grilling and trying completely new types of cuisine, but today we'll head back to breakfast land for a deliciously savory meal inspired by a Perkins menu option: breaded chicken on hand made biscuits with gravy and breakfast potatoes.

For our version, we're using frozen tenderloins leftover from our grilled chicken skewers dinner, but you could also get breasts or tenderloins from the butcher block instead.

This meal was rather spur of the moment, and this particular morning we were out of some of the regular ingredients and only had whole wheat flour on hand, which made our biscuit creation options limited. We found an offbeat recipe using whole wheat flour and the sweetener Stevia and decided to give it a shot. Here's our ingredients:

First we mix together all the dry ingredients:

Then we pour in the milk and mix until it's smooth and ready to be rolled out:

Here we're using the edge of a drinking glass to form our biscuits.

Next up we put together the breakfast potatoes, which are just regular potatoes cut into wedges and dredged in garlic powder, cayenne, pepper, and any other seasonings you care to add.

Next up we prepare the meat by making a flour and herb blend and an egg bath to coat the chicken tenderloins.

The chicken is dipped in the herb blend, dredged in the egg, and then returned to the herb blend again for maximum coating.

Everything goes in the oven for 30 - 40 minutes while Megan whips up some scrambled eggs and homemade gravy, which is a snap if you've got milk, flour, and whatever flavoring you'd like to us - leftover meat pan drippings are the best, but you could even go with meat stock cubes or ramen flavoring packets if you've got nothing else on hand. Pour the gravy on top, dash on as much tabasco as you need on your scrambled eggs, and dig in! Don't forget a steaming mug of coffee though :)

Next time we make this we'll probably go with a traditional biscuit recipe instead, as these were a bit too sweet for this type of meal, but they were great later with honey or jam.

Check back in again soon as we try more interesting pizza recipes, show off our indoor herb garden from construction to cultivation, and continue the 2013 grilling season!