How to Make The Best Chicken Parmesan Bake
Hello, this is Chef John from foodwishes.com. And this is my new favorite recipe, chicken parmesan bake. It’s not fried. It’s baked. You're not going to believe this. It’s so easy and incredibly delicious. And I don’t know if I invented it, but I'm taking credit.
In a casserole dish, you're standard 9 by 13 or 12 or whatever you’ve got. Put in a couple of tablespoon of olive oil and two cloves of crushed garlic. Mix those around, so the bottom is coated. And them I'm going to spice it up with a couple shakes of red pepper flakes. That’s optional, but you know do it anyway. Then I'm going to put chicken breast on top of that.
Now I have huge breasts. Stop giggling that didn’t come out right. I was using very large breasts, okay. So I only can fit like five in here. I probably could squeeze six in. it depends on the size of the breasts. If you're using those real small breasts, you can buy and get 7 or 8 in there. These are like 8 ounce breast, so I only use five. I'm going to put two cups of tomato sauce on there. No, I didn’t measure. Why would I want to wash a measuring cup? The jar has three cups in it. I use two, two thirds of it, that’s two cups. See kids, that’s why you’ve got to stay in school and stuff like that.
On top, I'm going to put some nice fresh herb. I have about a quarter cup of chopped basil leaves. All right, so just sprinkle that over. It’s going to give it a nice fresh taste. If you want to use dry, go ahead but the fresh is better in my opinion. I'm going to throw on top of that. Four ounces of grated mozzarella and two ounces of grated parmesan, that’s half our cheese, then the secret ingredient a five-ounce package of garlic crotons. Get a nice brand, something nice and crunchy. The secret to this dish and why there's no frying involved, why it’s so easy because that’s going to make this incredibly crunchy on the top, chewy on the bottom crust. And I’ll explain more about that later.
So that’s goes on top of your cheese then the other half of the cheese goes on. That is four more ounces of mozzarella and two more ounces of grated parmesan. By the way, parmesan is in chicken parmesan. A lot of restaurants, they don’t know this. It’s chicken mozzarella -- its named parmesan. You know feel free to sprinkle in some parmesan. So anyway, at home we’re going to use the real stuff.
Once that’s all set, we’re going to bake that at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. And here is the genius of this dish. And yes, I believe I just called myself a genius. The top of the croton with that cheese on top, it’s beautifully brown and crispy and crunchy. In the underneath, the under side, the bottom half of the croton soaks up the tomato sauce and the chicken juice and the basil and garlic and pepper flavor and it just an unbelievable combination. It’s just like chicken parmesan only better probably. No there's again frying pans or all the grease splattering. Great for party, great for buffet.
Anyway, make this you're going to love it. And don’t forget to check the site and ingredients. Enjoy.
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