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🍅 Chicken Parmiggiana 🍅

Looks pretty & fancy schmancy 🤵 . For something VERY flavorful, the steps to make this is fairly easy & straightforward, makes sense that it's pinned up in my fam's menu. 📌



A reunion family dinner at Dakong Balay, and my precious  niece ordered this dish.  Elegant, Savory, Filling and Rich. 

I was inspired! A week later, this was our star dish for Media Noche, to welcome New Year 2025!


🐔TOOLS

meat mallet / kitchen hammer / burger press

non-stick pan

sauce pan

chopping board

cheese grater

serving plate


🐔INGREDIENTS

chicken fillet, "butterflied" or chick leg boneless butterflied & flatten with meat mallet.

salt

pepper

flour

2 eggs

breadcrumbs

cheese, grated (cheddar, mozzarela, parmesan, etc. Got the authentic Italian parmiggiano? Even better!)

cream or beschamel sauce (my Z does NOT like cheese) so this one's for her 😉

parsley

2 tomato, diced

1/2 onion, minced

tomato sauce


🐔GOALS

-FLATTEN protein / meat

-THIN flour coating only

-HOT frying oil

-for plating, pour the sauce and form a donut circle. SURROUND crispy meat with tomato sauce, NOT on top of the sauce, or even top with sauce to keep it CRISPY! (we dun wan soggy meat🫷).


🐔Steps - meat

  1. FEB method - coat with Flour. Pat pat every cranny, then shake off excess.
  2. then coat with Egg. with fingers or brush, spread to every nook.
    end with coating of Breadcrumbs.

  3. Heat the pan, add the oil for deep-frying
  4. Do the chopsticks-bubble oil test for the right oil temperature.
  5. Gently put the breaded chicken.  
    Do not crowd the pan.
  6. Transfer to plate with table napkin or wire rack.
  7. Finish remaining meat, if there's more.

🐔Steps - sauce

  1. Heat olive oil in sauce pan.
  2. Saute garlic, for a minute.
  3. Add onion, cook for minute.
  4. Add tomatoes, then salt.
  5. Cook for 2 minutes.
  6. Add herbs (oregano, basil, thyme, rosemary, etc, to your heart's desire).
  7. Add tomato sauce.
  8. Add 1/4 cup water. Mix well.
  9. Let it simmer for 5 minutes.
  10. Taste test.
🍽️Plating
  1. To plate, pour sauce carefully & form a donut shape (yup, leave that hole in the center!)
  2. Place the crispy meat in the middle.
  3. Top with beschamel sauce or the grated cheese.
  4. Serve hot & enjoy!


💡Inspired by:

Chef John's Chicken Parmesan



(🤦This dish'' 1st version's foto does NOT do it justice at all. 😅 suffice to say, it was SOO tempting, we just had to eat, and continue on with dinner, just snap a quick one lah!)

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