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
- 1/2 cups flour
- 1 egg
- Bread crumbs
- Fresh basil
- Fresh Mozzarella
- Ground Parmigian
- 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!