Chicken Parmesan
Serves: 4 (can be altered), Prep: about 10-15 minutes, Bake: 25 minutesIngredients:
2 cups (ish) spaghetti sauce
1 large egg
2 tablespoons water
2/3 cup dried bread crumbs (or saltines, or make your own, or whatever)
1/3 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1/2 cup olive and/or vegetable oil
2 cups shredded mozzarella
8 chicken tenderloins (Brad eats like 3 tenderloins, I eat 1 or 2. I think most people eat 2) or 4 chicken breasts
Spaghetti noodles (Brad requires these with his chick parmesan)
How to:
- Start boiling the water for the noodles. Then add them and stuff... (make the spaghetti noodles)
- Preheat oven to 350.
- Beat egg and water in a small bowl. Mix bread crumbs and Parmesan in a small dish/plate.
- Heat oil over medium heat in a 12" skillet (ish... I like a frying pan for it's non-stick qualities).
- Pound the chicken to about 1/4 inch thick; place each piece between sheets of saran wrap/wax paper and pound with a meat mallet.
- Dip the chicken into egg mixture then crumb mixture and cook in the oil until no longer pink in the center, turning once.
- Place the cooked chickens in an 9x13 dish. Cover with the spaghetti sauce then mozzarella cheese.
- Bake uncovered for about 25 minutes or until sauce is bubbly and cheese is light brown.
Serve over spaghetti noodles.
It looks hard, but I swear it's not (I can do it). And it tastes SO good (it'd better, it's fried in oil).
I haven't tried it as a make-ahead yet. If you do, let me know how it goes.
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Eli wants to know if you have a special Italian tablecloth just for when you cook Italian...:)
ReplyDeletefun, easy, and yummy. we ate it with spaghetti squash which gave it a different and healthy twist which we liked.
ReplyDeleteRemind me what spaghetti squash is again.
ReplyDeletefind it in the produce section among the other squash. its yellow and oval shapped. cut it in half, scoop out the seeds, place on cookie sheet with a little bit of water at 400 for aprroximately 40 minutes or when you can dent your finger into the top of the squash. when you go to scrap out the squash with a spoon, it comes out in strings, like spaghetti. add a little butter and parmesean and mix it all together while the squash is still hot. mm, delicious.
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