Parmesan Crusted Chicken

July 3, 2014

TIP #1. ALWAYS have shaved parmesan in your fridge.
It’s great on a salad and amping up a chicken parm recipe!
I added some shaved parmesan to my breadcrumb mix and
it made my normal chicken parm recipe even tastier!

**Put the pasta water on to boil AFTER you bread the chicken.
Start preheating the oven when you START frying the chicken.**

PARMESAN CRUSTED CHICKEN
Use thin chicken breasts.
***add more dry ingredients depending on how much chicken you are making up!
2 eggs beaten
2 tablespoons water
3/4 cup panko italian bread crumbs
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
2 teaspoon dried oregano (I LOVE this spice. heavy handed with it)
1 teaspoon dried basil
1/3 cup flour
pinch or two of salt and pepper
olive oil (for frying)
+ 1/2 Jar of Spaghetti Sauce
Thin Sliced Provolone (Or mozzarella) Cheese
Thin Sliced Tomatoes
+Pasta of choice (I did noodles with olive oil and the seasonings above!)

DIRECTIONS:

–Pull out three bowls.

–In one bowl combine the water and egg.

–In your second bowl add the flour

–In the third, and final bowl, combine the bread crumbs, spices and shaved parmesan

–Dip the chicken into the egg mixture, flour mixture, egg mixture and lastly in the bread mixture.
Place on a plate.

–Repeat till all the chicken is coated.

–Cover the plate of breaded chicken with foil and put in freezer.

This helps the breading to stick when fried.

–When you are ready pull out the chicken a little before frying.

–Heat up your saucepan..and then add olive oil.

–Make sure it’s hot enough.. (test with a pinch of flour.)

–I put in enough oil to have them soaked but not swimming in it!

You’ll get the hang of how much to put in.

–Place your chicken in the pan and brown both sides. make sure not to overcrowd the pan.

–Tongs make this whole frying process easier.

–put some of the spaghetti sauce in the bottom of your casserole pan

–Layer the sauce, chicken, more sauce cheese and tomatoes.
Add spices on top if you want!

–Cover with foil(TIP: spray foil with cooking spray so cheese doesn’t stick!)

–Bake at 350 for 20 minutes.. depending on how thin your chicken is!

(The chicken is browned but just needs to be cooked through. I always check occasionally)

–You can remove the foil near the end if you want it a little toasted!

This is a family favorite.
We usually have it with salad and some kind of pasta.
ENJOY!

Kristin
July 3, 2014 at 12:28 pm
Yummy. Agreed, parmesan makes everything happy and better!

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Denise
July 5, 2014 at 10:15 pm
Oh my goodness, this looks super yummy! Ill have to try this out soon! Thank you :)
Fiona
July 7, 2014 at 2:07 pm
This recipe sound very tasty. It is definitely something I will try on the kids :-) Thanks.
Meg O.
July 9, 2014 at 5:13 pm
Parmesan is EVERYTHING! This recipe looks delicious – I’ll have to give it a try!