Happy Labor Day weekend!!!!
Saturday night I cooked one of my favorite meals, Chicken Parmesan and garlic bread. I actually made two dishes of it. One for my family and I took one to a friend who recently had a beautiful baby girl.
I usually buy the thin chicken breasts but boneless chicken breast were BOGO at Harris Teeter last week so I just used what I had. So I cut them in half and had 6 pieces of chicken.
Chicken Parmesan
- 3-4 Boneless chicken breasts
- Italian bread crumbs
- 2 eggs
- Parmesan cheese
- Mozzarella cheese
- 1 can crushed tomatoes
- 1 cup sweet onion
- 2 garlic cloves
- 2 tsp sugar
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp pepper
- Olive oil
*Double recipe if cooking 6 pieces of chicken
First chop up onion and garlic. Heat 2 tsp olive oil in sauce pan (make sure the pan is large enough to hold crushed tomatoes). Add 1 cup of onion and 2 garlic cloves to oil. Sautee for 2 minutes. Add Crushed tomatoes, 2 tsp sugar, 1 tsp salt, 1/4 pepper. Stir well. Reduce heat to a simmer, cover stirring occasionally.
In a medium bowl whisk together 2 eggs. In another medium bowl pour some bread crumbs (about 2 cups) add 1/4 cup parmesan cheese. Dip chicken in egg mixture then bread crumb mixture coating both sides.
Heat another 2 tsp olive oil in large frying pan on medium heat. Add chicken. Cook 10-14 minutes flipping once. When chicken is fully cooked (I usually pick the thickest piece and cut in the middle to check for any pink) reduce heat to low and add tomato sauce. Top with mozzarella cheese (usually takes full 2 cup bag) and sprinkle some parmesan cheese. Heat until cheese is melted.
Mine is in a casserole dish because I put everything together and heated it later since I was making 2 dishes and had to go deliver it.
While my chicken was cooking I fill a pot with water. I usually serve my Chicken Parmesan over angel hair pasta. I do it then so that I can add the pasta when the water starts boiling and the pasta is usually done when my cheese has melted.
Dish out some pasta and add I piece of chicken with cheese and sauce on top. I also made some garlic bread it goes great with this because you can dip the bread in sauce YUM!
Homemade chocolate chip cookies
I love this recipe and I recently changed it because they were a bit too fluffy for me.
- 1 cup butter
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup white sugar
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 cups semi sweet chocolate chips (chocolate chunks are good too)
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 2 tsp hot water
- 1/2 tsp salt
Heat Oven to 350 degrees
Cream together butter, white sugar, brown sugar until smooth. Beat in egg one at a time, stir in vanilla extract. Dissolve baking soda in hot water add to batter with salt. Stir in flower and chocolate chips. Drop a large spoon full on a pan.
Bake for about 10 minutes or until light brown. Remove from oven but leave on pan for about 3 minutes. Serve warm with a nice glass of milk!! :)
MY FAVORITE DESSERT!!
