This delicious chicken parmigiana is everything you would ever want in a dish that is cooked to perfection, it’s crispy on the outside and juicy on the inside. While sauce is one of the more important and complex parts of the dish, the recipe itself is easy to follow. The best part is that you don’t have to be an expert cook to put it together. Simply get the ingredients and give enough prep time to prepare the perfect homemade chicken parmigiana.
Health benefits
- Chicken is packed with plenty of proteins. It also contains selenium to regulate free radicals in your body to improve the immune system.
- The phosphorous in chicken helps to prevent bone loss in adults.
Chicken contains a particular strain of Vitamin B which helps to combat deadly diseases and genetic anomalies.
Ingredients
boneless chicken breasts, pounded: 5
salt: 2 tbsp
Freshly ground black pepper
cups of flour, seasoned with black pepper and salt: 2
large beaten eggs, seasoned with black pepper and salt: 3
cups of bread crumbs: 2
cup of vegetable oil: 1
grated parmesan: 1/2 cup
basil or parsley leaves
olive oil: 2 tbsp
large onion: 1
garlic cloves, smashed and mixed with salt to make a paste: 4
cans of tomatoes: 2
crushed tomatoes: 1 can
small can of tomato paste: 1
bay leaf: 1
small parsley: 1
Chile pepper: 1
How To Make Chicken parmigiana
- Preheat the oven to 350 degrees
- Mix the chicken with salt and pepper
- Dredge the chicken breasts with flour
- Dip in egg
- Spread oil on 2 large pans and heat over high heat until smoking
- Add chicken breasts to each pan and cook until golden brown
- Transfer to baking sheet and top with tomato sauce
- Add slices of mozzarella, 1tbsp of parmesan and salt
- Bake the chicken in the oven
- For the tomato, heat the olive oil in a saucepan over medium heat.
- Add onion, garlic and cook until it appears soft
- Add tomato puree, crushed tomatoes, bay leaf, Chile pepper and stir them
- Bring the mixture to a boil
- Season the sauce to taste
- Cook until the sauce is thickened
Trivia
- Many people assume that chicken are flightless species, but that doesn’t mean they can’t jump over a fence or onto small to medium objects such as trees.
Chickens will eat just about anything, including seeds, insects and even mice, making them a slightly deadly omnivore!