Chicken Parmesan.

Hello Friends,

This is a classic Italian dish that most people have heard of! It's perfect if you don't have a lot of time to make dinner. It's high in protein and delicious! I made this the other day for the first time and I ran into a little problem. The week before I had made gluten-free sandwich bread like I normally do, but people weren't feeling up for bread that week so the bread went stale. I decided that the best thing to do with it was to turn it into bread crumbs, so I did. So, when I went to make the Chicken Parmesan I planned on using the bread crumbs that I had made I found that the bread being homemade doesn't last very long so, the bread crumbs had mold :( So I quickly went through my pantry looking for alternatives. In the past I have used crushed Chex rice cereal and that worked pretty good. but I didn't have any....So I grabbed the closest thing! I had tried making oat flour in my food processor, but I couldn't get it fine enough to be a flour, so I put it in a tubberware for another day. Yes, I used fine oatmeal as bread crumbs. Call me crazy, but it was perfect!

Ingredients:

• 6 skinless and boneless chicken breasts.
• 1 egg
• 1 cup of whole milk, you can use coconut or almond milk.
• 4 cups of gluten-free bread crumbs, you can use also crushed rice Chex or ground oatmeal. 
• 1 teaspoon of oregano.
• 1/2 teaspoon of thyme.
• 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder.
• 1/4 teaspoon rosemary.
• 3 cups of marinara.
• 2 cups of mozzarella.
• 1/2 cup of parmesan.

Heat a large pan with oil to MED heat. In a bowl whisk the milk and egg together and set aside. on a large plate mix the bread crumbs, oregano, thyme, garlic powder and rosemary. Make an assembly line of the milk mixture and the seasoned bread crumbs. Dip the chicken breast in the milk mixture then in the bread crumbs and evenly coat both sides, repeat with each piece if chicken. Fry the chicken in the heated pan until golden on each side. In a 9-13 inch baking dish spread a small amount of marinara. Lay the chicken breast on top of the marinara in the baking dish. Sprinkle half of the mozzarella on the chicken and cover with marinara, sprinkle with the rest of the mozzarella and parmesan. Bake at 350 F for 30 minutes or until the cheese is bubbly! Let cool for 5 minutes. Serve by it's self or on a bed of gluten-free pasta. Enjoy! 

Happy Cooking! 

Sophie aka SingingFox :3