How to Make Chicken Parmesan – Chicken Parmigiana Recipe

Learn how to make delicious chicken parmesan at home!! This recipe is super easy yet tastes just as good if not better than any you’d order from a fancy Italian restaurant! Great served on it’s own, over pasta or made into sandwiches. Quite a versatile dish!

What you’ll need:
2 boneless and skinless chicken breasts
1 1/2 cups Italian style bread crumbs (see how I make mine here: http://youtu.be/GMTG73oBXXQ )
3/4 cup shredded parmesan cheese, divided
1/2 cup flour
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
2 large eggs
extra virgin olive oil
marinara sauce (see how I make mine here: http://youtu.be/5VCVpovJHm4 )
approx. 1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
pasta of your choice

Trim chicken breasts and cut in half. Place between waxed paper or plastic wrap and pound out to about 1/2 inch thick. Set aside.
In one bowl, combine flour, salt and pepper. In another, whisk eggs and in another mix bread crumbs and 1/4 cup parmesan cheese.
To bread the chicken, dredge in flour, then eggs and then into bread crumbs. Press the crumbs into the chicken. Place onto a plate and let set for 15 minutes. This helps the coating stick to the chicken.
In a skillet, add enough olive oil to make it 1/4″ deep. Heat over medium high heat and fry the chicken for about 2 minutes on each side. Remove to a paper towel lined plate to drain excess oil. Place into a baking dish and top with marinara sauce. Sprinkle mozzarella over top then remaining parmesan. Bake in a preheated 350*F oven for 20-30 minutes or until chicken is done and cheese is melted and browned on top. Serve on it’s own, over pasta or make into sandwiches. Makes 4 large chicken parmesans. Enjoy!!

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Hello and welcome to crouton crackerjacks today i’m going to show you how to make this delicious chicken parmesan this is one of those dishes that sounds a lot more complicated than it really is but it’s really simple these are the ingredients that you’ll need so let’s get started

I’m going to start off with two boneless skinless chicken breasts here and these have been to thawed and using a knife i’m just going to trim off the gristly parts and the excess fat maybe some of the skin that’s left over on there just kind of trim them up and

Clean them up a little bit then i’m going to cut that breast right in half set those off onto a plate and then trim up and clean up my second chicken breast now i’ve got a piece of wax paper here and i put that onto my cutting board

And i made it long enough so i can fold it over on itself and i’m just going to use a small cup here and i’m going to pound out my breast halves until they’re about a half an inch thick or so now you can use anything heavy that you

Want to use if you have a meat mallet you can use that i don’t happen to have one so that’s why i’m using my small bowl you can also use the bottom of a skillet or a frying pan you can use a rolling pin really whatever you have that’s relatively

Heavy that you can pound this out with and when you get them all done this is what they will look like this should be about a half an inch thick or so maybe a little bit thinner and now we can start working on our breading ingredients

The first thing i’m going to need is an egg wash so i’m going to take two large eggs and crack those into a bowl and if you get any shells in there be sure to get those out don’t want any little crunchy bits in your chicken parmesan

And using a fork i’m just gonna whisk these together in another bowl i’ve got about one and a half cups of italian style bread crumbs and i’m going to add in a quarter of a cup of grated parmesan cheese now i’m using my homemade italian bread

Crumbs here i will put a link in the description box that will take you to a video that shows how i make those and then finally in a third bowl i’ve got about a half a cup of flour i’m going to add in a teaspoon of salt and a

Half a teaspoon of ground black pepper i’m just going to mix this together and now we can start breading our chicken now the breading process is really simple on this you just want to take one of your powdered out pieces of chicken and dredge it in the flour mixture shake off

The excess and then put it into your eggs And then you want to let the excess drip off and then you want to go right into your bread crumbs Now you want to take your bread crumbs and kind of push them into your chicken there and that’ll make sure that you get a nice thick coating on your chicken and when you get that completely coated go ahead and set it off onto a plate and then continue breading the rest of

Your chicken and once all your chicken is breaded you want to let this sit and let that coating kind of adhere to the chicken for about 15 minutes or so before you cook them up i’ve got my small cast iron skillet on medium high heat here and i’m going to

Put in about a quarter of an inch or so of extra virgin olive oil into the bottom of that and i’m going to let that come up to temperature and then i’m going to start frying up my chicken pieces now you don’t want to crowd your pan too much

Here you want to give them a little room to breathe and you want to fry these for about two minutes on each side now frying these will not cook the chicken completely we’re going to be baking these and that will finish cooking them so don’t worry about

Cooking the chicken all the way through you just want to get the breading nice and golden brown and after about two minutes they should be golden brown on the first side go ahead and flip them over and continue cooking for another two minutes or so on the second side and

Once they’re golden brown on the second side you want to remove them off to a plate lined with paper towels and then you want to repeat this process with the other pieces of chicken now that all my chicken has been pan fried i’m going to put this into a glass baking dish

I’m using a 7 by 11 i think baking dish you can use a 9×13 you just want to put your chicken pieces in there make sure that they’re not overlapping at all and then you want to ladle on some marinara sauce onto each one of your chicken parmesans now this is my

Homemade marinara sauce it is my spaghetti sauce minus the meat and i have a video that shows how i make that i will again put the link in the description box so you can see how i make that you could also use jarred spaghetti sauce that is perfectly fine

You just want to put maybe about a quarter of a cup half a cup or so of marinara sauce on each chicken parmesan next i’m going to take some shredded mozzarella cheese and put a handful or so on top of each chicken parmesan And you can leave it with just the mozzarella on it and it would still be perfectly delicious however i’m going to take it up a notch and i’m going to add just a little bit of parmesan cheese on top of the mozzarella and then you want

To bake these in a preheated 350 degree oven for between 20 and 30 minutes or so you want to make sure that the chicken is cooked completely and done all the way through and the cheese is nice and golden brown on top and when they are done this is what they

Will look like now you can serve these exactly as they are however i like to serve mine over pasta so while these were in the oven i made up a pot of spaghetti you could also use these and make chicken parmesan sandwiches which would be absolutely amazing but since i

Did decide to serve this on spaghetti went ahead and put some spaghetti onto a plate there pick out one of the chicken parmesans and put it right on top you could add more sauce to this if you would like and there you go how to make chicken parmesan at home

From scratch i hope you guys enjoy and thanks so much for watching if you like this video be sure to give it a thumbs up subscribe for more deliciousness and if you’d like to follow me on google plus facebook and or pinterest all my links will be in the description box

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