Potato Chip Crusted Chicken

by Heidi Larsen Updated: Jul 1, 2025

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Crunchy potato chips are an unexpected choice for creating the crispiest crust for baked chicken breasts that everyone in the family will love for dinner. With just 3 basic ingredients, this is one of the easiest dinners you’re going to make all year.

Potato Chip Crusted Chicken with watermelon salad

This post is sponsored by Kettle Brand Potato Chips

Growing up, my dad came home nearly every day for lunch. I would eat with him and my mom during the summer months when we girls were home from school wishing we were at the pool instead of home doing our chores.

Their sandwich routine switched up a little every day but there was always one addition to the lunch that never wavered. Potato chips. Salty, crunchy potato chips.

To this day, whenever I eat a sandwich with chips (of course I have to stack them inside the sandwich for added crunch value) I happily remember those days of licking my fingers clean of the salty leftovers and briny flavor bits on my lips.

These days, potato chips at our house have an added duty to sitting side saddle our lunchtime fare. With this easy recipe for potato chip crusted chicken, they’ve moved from lunch to dinner and are putting everyday chicken breasts at the center stage of crunchy flavor.

What’s in This Recipe?

Chicken breasts — You can also pair chicken thighs with the potato chip crust.
Kettle Brand Potato Chips — Nothing gives baked chicken breasts more flavor and more crunch than by breading them with crushed potato chips. Kettle Brand Potato Chips give these dinner birds an even crunchier munch because of their thicker, kettle fried potato chip bite.
Eggs — The perfect binder for adhering the crushed potato chips to the chicken breasts.

Heidi’s Tip: With this recipe, you can pick and choose any one of the many flavors of Kettle Brand potato chips to serve to the variety of taste buds in your house. Simply choose the potato chip flavors you want, place in a gallon size freezer bag and roll with a rolling pin into small pieces to coat the chicken breasts.

Ingredients for making chicken with a potato chip crust

How to Make Potato Chip Chicken

Prep the chicken. We cut the chicken breasts in half lengthwise so they’re thinner and therefore cook faster and more evenly. My husband likes to give them a light tenderization with our little kitchen mallet, too.
Bread the chicken. Next, simply dredge the chicken in egg, then the chips and place on a baking sheet lined with foil and topped with a cooking or cooling rack. Cooking the chicken on the rack keeps the bottoms of the chicken from becoming soggy, and cooks the chicken on both sides so there’s no flipping required. Not to mention if gives it a fried chicken-esque flavor and crunchy texture.
Bake at 400ºF until the juices run clear. Or, use a meat thermometer to check that the chicken is 160ºF. Let it rest for 5 minutes to bring it up to 165ºF.

Potato Chip Crusted Chicken set over a wire rack

Flavor Variations to Try

The potato chip chicken is delicious served all on its own, or if you’re a dipper, it’s super easy to mix up dipping sauces that complement the potato chip flavors. Here are some flavor combos I created, but feel free to create your own:

Honey Dijon Potato Chip chicken breasts amped up even more with a 3 mustard sauce dip (mix grainy mustard + yellow mustard + a small squirt of yellow mustard) or classic ranch dressing or mayo spiked with Sriracha sauce, perhaps?
Pepperoncini Potato Chip crusted chicken breasts with peach preserves + diced jalapeño
Jalapeño Potato Chip crusted chicken breasts with a coconut milk + mayonnaise + pesto dip

Sliced potato chip chicken on a cutting board

Storage Tips

Leftovers will keep up to 5 days in the fridge, but the potato chip breading on this chicken will lose its crunch. To revive some of the original crispiness, reheat the chicken on the convection setting (if your oven has that feature) or in a lightly oiled skillet over medium heat.

What to Serve with Potato Chip Chicken

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