Chicken Parmesan Recipe
Perfect Chicken Parmesan is the best chicken parmesan recipe you'll find. Full of flavor, takes minutes to cook, and is my favorite chicken dinner recipe!
Servings: 4 servings
Ingredients
- 1 pound boneless chicken breasts skinless
- salt & pepper
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- 1 egg beaten
- 1 cup panko bread crumbs
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese divided
- 1 teaspoon dried basil
- 1 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 25 ounces pasta sauce Rao's is my favorite
- 8 ounces fresh mozzarella sliced
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400°F.
- Using a large plastic bag or plastic wrap, cover 1 pound boneless chicken breasts and flatten to half inch thickness using a meat pounder or a rolling pin.
- Sprinkle salt & pepper on both sides of chicken.
- Add 1/2 cup all purpose flour to bowl. Beat 1 egg into another bowl. Combine 1 cup panko bread crumbs with half of the 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese (reserving the other half for later) along with the 1 teaspoon dried basil and 1 teaspoon dried oregano in a dish large enough for the chicken breasts.
- Heat 1/4 cup olive oil in a very large skillet over medium high heat.
- Dredge chicken in flour, then coat with egg, then cover with bread crumb mixture. Press coating onto chicken to get as much as possible to stick. When the oil is very hot, just below the point where it begins to smoke, add your coated chicken. Continue with the remaining chicken breasts.
- Cook each breast until golden brown, about 2 minutes on each side. Remove from pan and transfer to baking dish. Any remaining oil can be strained and refrigerated for future use, if desired.
- Cover the cooked chicken breasts with 25 ounces pasta sauce as well as a couple slices of 8 ounces fresh mozzarella and the remaining 1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese. You may reserve some of the sauce to serve with pasta on the side, if desired.
- Cook in preheated oven until cheese has melted, about 5-10 minutes.
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Notes
- I used a combination of olive oil with avocado oil because it tolerates high temperatures better
- I always choose to put my crumb mixture in a rectangular dish that's the exact size of the chicken breast. It makes coating the chicken oh-so-easy. The crumb coating I use when making this easy chicken parmesan is a 2:1 mixture of bread crumbs to parmesan cheese plus some herbs like fresh basil.
- If you're wondering how do you keep chicken parmesan crispy, you must cook the coated breasts in very hot oil in a single layer. This will give them a crispy golden outside and won't leave them soggy.
Nutrition
Calories: 714kcal | Carbohydrates: 34g | Protein: 48g | Fat: 42g | Saturated Fat: 15g | Cholesterol: 169mg | Sodium: 1672mg | Potassium: 955mg | Fiber: 4g | Sugar: 9g | Vitamin A: 1410IU | Vitamin C: 12.4mg | Calcium: 508mg | Iron: 5.1mg