![]() Set up your dredging stations: one rimmed plate for the eggs, one plate for the flour, and one plate for the bread crumbs. Recipe: Basic Breaded Chicken Cutlets, aka Chicken Milaneseįew generous glugs of olive oil (5 to 6 tablespoons), or more as necessary (you are not deep-frying here, but pretty close)ġ 1/2 cups Kellogg’s Corn Flake Crumbs (available in the bread crumb section of most supermarkets) that have been salted and pepperedĤ boneless chicken breasts (about 1 1/4 pounds), rinsed and patted dry and pounded like crazy in between two sheets of wax paper with a meat pounder (or, in a pinch, a rolling pin)Īdd the oil to a large skillet set over medium-high heat. And in the summer, we top them with a mess of arugula and tomatoes, and everyone’s happy. As a mother, I can’t tell you how crucial the extra crispiness becomes when you are competing with twin chicken evils Finger and Nugget. She taught us to replace plain old bread crumbs in the dredge with Kellogg’s Corn Flake Crumbs. It’s a testament to the recipe that almost three decades later, in spite of a bumpy batch every now and then (the time I served a soggy, rubbery mess of them to my then-boyfriend-now-husband comes to mind immediately), the meal has become a veritable hall-of-famer in my house.īut as well as my mom made them (and still does), it was my Aunt Patty–my 500px Italian Aunt Patty who once even took a cooking class with Giuliano Bugiali–who taught us the secret that took the classic dish to levels previously unforeseen. Connecticut, she taught my father how to make one meal: Breaded Chicken Cutlets. My mom went to law school at night when I was in fourth grade and instead of allowing us to subsist on McDonalds and pizza delivery for dinner while she was out studying Griswold v. The Best Chicken Cutlets You’ll Ever Have (Secret Ingredient: Corn Flake Crumbs)īy Jenny Rosenstrach from the blog Dinner: A Love Story and the new cookbook Dinner: A Love Story (Fun fact: Jenny has a diary listing every single dinner she’s made since 1998!) Here, she reveals her secret family recipe for the best chicken cutlets ever… ![]() She and her husband Andy are passionate about nightly family dinners with their two daughters–and swear it’s possible, if you keep things simple and fun. Jenny Rosenstrach writes the fantastic food blog Dinner: A Love Story and has a brilliant cookbook memoir of the same name coming out next week (yay!). ![]()
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