Healthier Baked Chicken Parmesan. The Best Chicken Parmesan recipe, made a bit healthier! Breaded chicken cutlets are baked, not fried yet the chicken is so moist and full of flavor. This is an easy chicken dinner the whole family will love!
Really great pretty healthy chicken dish.
This baked chicken parmesan just became one of our favorite dinner recipes.
It's very flavorful and doesn't need to be fried.
You can cook Healthier Baked Chicken Parmesan using 15 ingredients and 14 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Healthier Baked Chicken Parmesan
- You need 1/2 loaf of crusty rye bread.
- It's 1 lb of skinless chicken breasts.
- You need 2 cups of buttermilk, divided.
- Prepare 2 cloves of garlic minced.
- Prepare of salt and pepper.
- Prepare 1 tsp of garlic powder.
- You need 1 tsp of salt.
- You need 2 tsp of italian seasoning.
- Prepare 4 oz of fresh grated parmigian reggiano.
- It's 2 cups of whole wheat flour.
- You need 4 of egg whites or 1 cup greek yogurt.
- You need 2 cups of pasta sauce.
- You need 1/2 cup of shredded mozzarella and provologne.
- It's 125 g of fresh mozzarella.
- You need of fresh basil and oregano as garnish.
This easy, oven baked chicken Parm recipe with Panko Parmesan crust is kid. Ditch the spaghetti and the excess oil with our calorie-cutting version of the classic dish. Place the egg whites in a shallow bowl. Mix the bread crumbs, Parmesan, and Italian seasoning on a large plate.
Healthier Baked Chicken Parmesan step by step
- Cut half of the bread loaf into 1/2 inch slices. Lay out on the counter on a cutting board or somewhere it won't be messed with. We'll be drying these pieces overnight..
- Filet the chicken (make two thinner breasts!). Then using plastic wrap and something with some heft, or a meat mallet if you wanna be proper (I usually use a can of beans or whatever else is lying around) to pound the filets to a 1/4 in thick. Don't be like me and make it a contest to see how thin you can get the chicken, doesn't fare well for anyone involved..
- As they are thinned out place the chicken in a plastic bag. When complete add the buttermilk, garlic, and 1 tbsp salt and pepper to the bag. Work it around to miz up the ingredienta and make sure all the chicken is coated. Then squeeze out the air and place in the fridge. Let chill for 4 hrs up to over night..
- The next day or at last 4 hours later take your dried bread and start to break it apart. I put it in a ziplock bag and smashed it, but you can wreak havoc on the bread however you heart desires. break it down enough to put it in the food processor (or blender if you have one that can handle mixing solids)..
- I used my vitamix and ran the blender on low until you have a sandy consistency. Kinda like bread crumbs, in case you hadn't caught on that's what we're making. Add the garlic powder, salt, pepper, and italian seasoning to the crumb and about 1/2 of the parmigian. Blend for a few seconds until it looks well mixed. Then add the next half and blend. Voila! You just made homemade bread crumbs that will taste much better than store bought. You can store the bread crumbs for up to a month in the fridge..
- Now it's time to set up you're breading work area. It's really important to get it right. If you do, the process should be relatively clean and quick. If you don't you'll have egg and flour everywhere. You'll need three shallow bowls/pie pans, a large plate, and parchment paper. You're going to fill one bowl with about 1/2 cup of breading, one bowl with the whole wheat flour and another bowl with your wash. To make the wash you can either combine eggs, 2 tbsp buttermilk and a tbsp of flour, or the greek yogurt.
- Now we're ready to start breading. Grab the bag of chicken from the fridge and open that bad boy up. (Note: If while you are doing this you keep a dry hand, for working with the dry ingredients, and make your other hand the wet hand. This will prevent you from developing those small nuggets of useless breading on your hands.).
- First, the chicken goes straight from the bag to the flour. If you drop it on one side of the bowl you can pick up the flour from the other side to coat the top, so you can hopefully keep your dry hand liquid free. Flip a couple times to coat all sides..
- Then move the chicken to the wash. Using your wet hand flip the cutlet a couple times until it is covered entirely with the wash..
- Transfer to the bread crumbs. Once again to prevent a mess you can take bread crumbs from the side or pour some from the remaining half over the chicken. If working with the yogurt press down on the breading to get a flat uniform product. It will appear chunky and cook unevenly. Flip a couple of times to make sure all of the wash is covered. Transfer to the large plate..
- Repeat this process for all the chicken, filling up on ingredients as they get low. When you have one layer of chicken on the plate cover with parchment paper and lay the chicken on top of that. Preheat oven to 400F(~200C).
- Place the chicken in a glass casserole dish and lighhtly spray both sides with vegetable or olive oil. Put in oven for 20 minutes. If at 20 minutes the chicken is still not brown enough turn the broiler on high until you get a nice golden brown.
- Top with tomato sauce, shredded cheese, and fresh mozzarella. Put back in the oven with the broiler stil on high for ten minutes or until the cheese is bubbling and golden brown..
- Remove from the oven and let it cool/rest for about 5 minutes. Serve with whole grain pasta served with some fresh chopped herbs..
Now you can enjoy tasty Italian food any night of the week with this Healthy Baked Chicken Parmesan! I used parmesan to flavor the nuggets but if parmesan is not your thing, feel free to add any other type of cheese or substitute it with breadcrumbs. Healthy chicken Parmesan is baked in the oven for a crisp breaded chicken without the oil needed for frying. You can vary this healthy chicken Parmesan recipe by adding ½ teaspoon of dried thyme or oregano to the breadcrumb and Parmigiano Reggiano® cheese mixture. CRISPY GARLIC PARMESAN CHICKEN WINGS - baked instead of fried but these classic chicken wings are still as crispy and delicious as ever!