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Homemade chicken parmigiana recipe

Chicken schnitzel topped with parmigiana sauce, mozzarella and parmesan
5 from 1 vote
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 20 minutes
Total Time: 40 minutes
Calories:

Servings: 4 people

Equipment

  • Oven

Ingredients

Parmigiana sauce

  • 1/4 Brown onion Chopped
  • 2 Garlic cloves Chopped
  • 1 tsp Chilli flakes
  • 1 tsp Dried herbs
  • 400 g Crushed tomato
  • 200 g Water
  • Salt and pepper To taste

Chicken parmigiana

  • 2 Chicken breast Cut in half horizontally
  • Salt & pepper
  • Dried herbs

Crumbing

  • 100 g All-purpose flour
  • 3 Eggs
  • 50 g Panko crumb
  • 20 g Parmesan Grated
  • 1/4 tsp Salt
  • 1 tsp Dried herbs
  • 1/4 tsp Pepper

Cheese topping

  • 40 g Mozarella Grated
  • 20 g Parmesan Grated

Instructions

Parmigiana sauce

  • Heat a pan on medium heat with 1 tbsp of olive oil
  • Add onion, garlic and cook until soft, once cooked, add chilli flakes, dried herbs, crushed tomato, water, salt and pepper. Mix and leave it on medium fire for 15-20 mins until reduced and it has become a thick sauce

Cutting the chicken

  • Place the full chicken breast on a chopping board and cut the chicken horizontally so that you get two pieces of chicken from one whole breast
  • Season the chicken breast with salt, pepper, dried herbs on both sides

Crumb the chicken

  • Place the panko crumb in a bowl and mix dried herbs, salt, pepper, parmesan directly into the crumb and mix well
  • Prepare 3 bowls separately with flour, eggs, panko crumb mix that was prepared
  • Dip the chicken firstly in flour, then egg, then in the panko crumb mixture and leave aside until needed

How to cook the chicken schnitzels

  • Place a pan on medium heat filled with oil, enough oil to fry the chicken breast (Shallow frying)
  • Once the oil is hot, cook the chicken for 1 min on one side, 1 minute on the other side. Take off the chicken from the hot oil and let it drain on a paper towel or a a wire rack

Assembly

  • Preheat the oven to 200c (conventional)
  • Place the mozzarella cheese and parmesan cheese in a small bowl and mix well to combine, leave aside until needed.
  • Place the cooked chicken on a tray, topped with 2 tbsp of the prepared parmigiana sauce then top it up with the cheese mixture that was prepared earlier
  • Bake in the oven for 10 minutes
  • Serve warm.

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