Easy Baked & Breaded Chicken Cutlets
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Recipe type: Main Dish
Cuisine: American
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Serves: 4-6
 
These easy breaded and baked chicken cutlets make for the perfect healthy, weeknight meal.
Ingredients
  • 2-3 chicken breasts, depending on size, cut into 4-6 chicken cutlets
  • 4 cups plain Panko bread crumbs
  • 4 large eggs
  • ⅓ cup flour or flour alternative of your choice, arrowroot powder works well too
  • salt & pepper for seasoning
Instructions
  1. Preheat your oven to 375. Season your bread crumbs with a generous amount of salt and pepper, and the spread out in a single layer onto a large baking sheet. Bake in the oven for about 7-10 minutes, until golden brown but not dark brown.
  2. While your breadcrumbs are baking, pat your chicken breasts dry, and cut them into cutlets by inserting a sharp knife into the center of the breast, and slicing in half, creating two thin breasts, or cutlets. You will want to slice off the little tender piece of meat found on most breasts, and either reserve that for another use, or to make a really small version of these breaded cutlets.
  3. Once you have your cutlets ready to go, either wrap in plastic wrap or place in a Ziploc bag, and tenderize them till soft and thin, but not see-through. If you wish, season the cutlets with a bit more salt and pepper.
  4. Whisk your eggs in one shallow bowl, and place your flour in a separate shallow bowl.
  5. Dip your cutlets one at a time in the flour or flour substitute, and then in the egg wash. Then dip in the browned bread crumbs, still spread out on the baking sheet. Make sure the cutlets get an all-over even coating of the crumbs.
  6. Place cutlets on a wire rack, like a cookie cooling rack, placed over a baking sheet. This will allow for the breaded cutlets to get a nice even cooking, and will reduce the amount of breadcrumbs that fall off when you flip them half way through cooking.
  7. Bake in the 375 oven for 10-12 minutes, flipping half way through cooking.
  8. Serve along side your favorite side dishes, but they taste exceptionally good with some warm apples and buttered green beans.
Recipe by For the Love of... at http://www.fortheloveof.net/food-wellness/easy-breaded-baked-chicken-cutlets/