Chicken Parmesan
Italian dish with breast halves, flattened to ½-inch thickness, all purpose flour, eggs.
- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 4
- advanced
- Italy
Ingredients
- 6 chicken breast halves, flattened to ½-inch thickness
- ½ cup all purpose flour
- 2 eggs
- 1½ cups italian seasoned bread crumbs
- ½ cup parmesan cheese
- ½ tsp salt
- ½ tsp black pepper, freshly-ground if possible
- to taste olive oil
- 1 jar spaghetti sauce
- 1 package mozzarella cheese
Steps
- Preheat the oven to 350°F (175°C).
- Mix the breadcrumbs, salt, black pepper, and half the Parmesan cheese in a mixing bowl.
- Beat the eggs in a small bowl.
- On the stove, heat olive oil in a large frying pan over medium-high heat.
- Take each chicken breast and dip it into the flour, then into the eggs, then into the breadcrumb mixture.
- Make sure to coat it thoroughly.
- Pan fry the chicken breasts lightly in the olive oil until brown on both sides.
- You do not need to cook them through, just brown them.
- Once brown, the breadcrumbs should stick to the outside.
- Pour half a jar of pasta sauce into a shallow baking dish.
- Then lay the chicken out in the pan.
- Pour the rest of the sauce on top.
- Sprinkle the remaining grated Parmesan cheese over the chicken.
- Place the dish in the oven.
- Bake for 30 minutes at 350°F (175°C).
- Remove from the oven.
- Add a slice of mozzarella cheese to each chicken breast.
- Return to the oven for 10 more minutes to melt the mozzarella.
- Serve with pasta.
Adapted from “Chicken Parmesan”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.