Cast-Iron Chicken Parmigiana

This is such a comfort food dinner for my family.  I serve it with fresh pasta, and the casti iron skillet looks great coming from the oven straight to the table.  If you don’t have a cast iron skillet you can use another oven-safe skillet.

Ingredients

• 1.5 lbs chicken breasts
• 2 cups flower
• 1 egg
• Bread crumbs
• Fresh basil
• Fresh Mozzarella
• Ground Parmigiana
• 28oz Can Crushed Tomato
• spoonful of tomato paste
• 1 small onion diced
• 3-4 garlic cloves minced
• 1 bay leaf
• Dried Basil and Oregano
• Salt and Pepper
• Olive Oil

Directions

Sauce first

• Sautee garlic and onion in small saucepan until translucent with some olive oil.
• Add crushed tomatoes and spoonful of tomato paste.
• Add some basil, oregano, salt and pepper.
• Stir and let simmer with a lid.

Prepping the Chicken

• Preheat oven to 350F
• Take the Chicken and flatten it a little with a mallet.  You don’t want to make it super thin.
• Prepare the assembly train for the chicken.  Flour, egg then bread crumbs.  Add some of the ground parmigiana to the bread crumbs.
• Brown the breaded chicken on each side in the cast iron skillet with a little olive oil.  About 2 minutes per side.  Once browned set the chicken aside.
• Once the skillet has cooled, clean it a little with a paper towel and add the sauce into the skillet.
• Place the chicken cutlets into the sauce.  Make sure they are submerged.
• Place basil leaves on top, then place some sliced fresh mozzarella on top of the basil.  Then add some parmigiana above that.
• Place in oven for 30 minutes.
• Take out and serve over pasta!

Main Ingredients:Basil, Cheese, Chicken Breasts, Mozzarella, Parm, Parmigiana, Tomatoes