Melissa Jo’s Chicken Parmigiana

Step 1

preheat your oven to 400 degrees

Step 2

heat up marinara sauce

Step 3

Butterfly the chicken breasts and cover in plastic wrap and pound them so they are even. They do not have to be super thin. Pat them dry, and make sure they are room temperature. Season with salt and cracked black pepper.

Step 4

Make an assembly line to dredge your chicken in this order

Step 5

Flour (season with salt and pepper)

Step 6

Eggs (whisk and add milk, salt, pepper and Pecorino Romano cheese)

Step 7

Both types of bread crumbs mixed with Pecorino Romano cheese (about a 4 tbsp.) and cracked black pepper & kosher salt

Step 8

Dredge your cutlets into the mixtures above in that order while shaking off any excess from the meat after each dip and flip. Make sure the final press into the breadcrumbs is packed and pressed in.

Step 9

Set stovetop at medium-high heat and add the canola oil. Then add the olive oil & butter.

Step 10

use the back of a chef’s knife to whack the garlic and add to the pan whole (this is just for flavoring the oil) you will remove the garlic cloves when you are done frying the chicken.

Step 11

Brown the cutlets on each side at medium heat (about 5-7 minutes each side)

Step 12

Remove chicken once it is are browned and golden

Step 13

set the chicken aside on a plate to rest

Step 14

clean out the pan, but leave a little bit of the fats in the pan (discard about 3/4 of the oils) add a tbsp. of fresh olive if needed (discard the garlic cloves)

Step 15

in the same pan ladle in the marinara sauce just enough to cover the bottom of the pan

Step 16

then add back the chicken

Step 17

ladle marinara over the chicken

Step 18

pop the pan into the oven at 400 degrees for 10 minutes

Step 19

remove the pan from the oven and top each piece of chicken with Pecorino Romano, mozzarella, and fresh parsley

Step 20

pop the pan back into the oven at 400 for 5 minutes

Step 21

after 5 minutes, set the oven to broil and leave the oven slightly ajar. broil the dish until the cheese has brown/golden spots

Step 22

remove and ENJOY!