Chicken Parmesan

Ingredients

• Chicken breast

  Broilers or fryers, meat only, raw

  4 breast fillet or 472g

• Salt

  Table

  1 dash or 0.4g

• Pepper

  Spices, black

  1 dash or 0.1g

• Bread crumbs

  Dry, grated, plain

  ½ cup or 54g

• Egg

  Whole, fresh eggs

  1 large or 50g

• Butter

  Unsalted

  4 tsp or 19g

• Pasta sauce

  Spaghetti/marinara, ready-to-serve

  2 cup or 514g

• Mozzarella cheese

  Part skim milk

  4 oz or 113g

• Parmesan cheese

  Shredded

  2 tbsp or 10g

• Spaghetti

  Dry pasta, enriched

  8 oz or 227g

Directions

1. Bring a pot of water to a boil and cook the spaghetti according to the package instructions.
2. Pound the chicken breasts to flatten them. Season with salt and pepper.
3. Dip each chicken breast in the beaten egg, then coat with bread crumbs.
4. In a hot skillet, melt the butter and fry the chicken until browned and cooked through, about 10 minutes. Remove from the skillet.
5. Add the pasta sauce to the skillet and heat thoroughly.
6. Return the chicken to the skillet, place slices of mozzarella on top, and sprinkle with parmesan cheese.
7. Cover and cook until the cheese is melted. Serve the chicken with the cooked spaghetti.