Friday's recipe was bruschetta and chicken Milanese.
Items needed for bruschetta
- One loaf of Italian bread
- Two tomatoes.
- One cup of blue cheese
- A half cup of Italian dressing
Items needed for chicken:
- Two chicken breast pounded thin
- Flour to coat the chicken
- Four eggs, whipped and seasoned with salt and pepper
- Grated Parmesan cheese
- Seasoned bread crumbs
- Two to three lemons
Items needed for mixed greens salad:
- A bag of your favorite mixed green salad mix.
- Extra virgin olive oil to coat the greens and season with salt and pepper
To cook bruschetta:
Cut bread in half, season with butter or olive oil
Wash and chop tomatoes placing them in a oil
Add blue cheese to the bowl
Coat the mix with Italian dressing
Lightly toast the bread in the oven
Pull out and add tomato mix, and put back in the oven to melt the cheese
To make chicken Milanese:
BREADING
- Place flour in a dish to flour the chicken
- Crack the eggs and whisk them and place in dish
- Place bread crumbs in pan
CHICKEN
- Thinly pound out the chicken breast making sure not to rip it. If you don't have a meat mallet, you can press the breast out between to cooking trays
- Place chicken in flour, covering the chicken
- Place chicken in egg making sure the whole chicken gets coated
- Place chicken in breadcrumbs, pressing the breading in the chicken coving the whole thing.
- In a medium sauté pan, heat vegetable oil placing oil in the pan to only cover half the chicken at a time.
- Once oil is hot place chicken in pan not letting the breading go past a light golden brown. Flip the chicken and cook to a light golden brown.
- Place cooked chicken on tray to drain off oil.
- In a bowl, place your greens and toss with extra virgin olive oil and season with salt and pepper.
- Place salad on plate, and place chicken over the salad.
- Squeeze lemon over chicken
