Friday, January 28, 2011

Easy Chicken Parmesan


Ingredients
Chicken Breast(s)
Tomato Sauce (meat free) - I use Classico jarred sauce. It really doesn't matter which one as long as it's meat free.
Breadcrumbs
Flour
1 Egg
Parmesan Cheese (grated)
Olive Oil

1- Pound your chicken breast with a hammer or a similar tool to make sure it is relatively the same thickness throughout. (don't skip this step, its actually important so that your chicken cooks at the same time)
2- Mix together equal parts of breadcrumbs and flour. I usually use a 1/4 cup of each for a large sized breast, but you can use more or less at your discretion. also for extra parmesaniness you can mix in about a tablespoon.
3- Beat egg in a separate bowl
4- Take the chicken that you beat-up earlier and coat it with the breadcrumb mixture, and then the egg, repeat this step until the chicken has a good coating or all the mixture is gone. (this part can be messy)
5- Heat enough olive oil in a frying pan to generously coat the bottom on medium to high heat
6- Cook you chicken in the pan until the outside is crispy (make sure that the chicken is completely cooked at this point)
7- Line an Oven-safe dish with tinfoil, this keeps the sauce from baking onto the dish and makes cleanup easier.
8- Put your cooked chicken in the pan and cover with sauce. Then cover the sauce with Parmesan cheese.
9- Put the pan in the oven under the broiler until the cheese is melty and the sauce is warm
10- Serve the chicken. I like to have this chicken with pasta on the side.

3 comments:

Jerome said...

Looks good I will have to try it where's the photo???

Meg said...

The photo is on my ipod and I can't get it off right now, but I'll try to remember to put it up soon!

Someone in the Sidley kitchen said...

Nice looking Dish