Cucina Del Capitano's Chicken Parmigiana
Cucina del Capitano’s Chicken Parmigiana RecipeIn the mood for some Italian food? Learn how Carnival’s Cucina del Capitano makes |
Ingredients:
A dish this amazing takes good stuff. Specifically, this good stuff:
To cook the chicken:
For the sauce:
For the parmesan crumble:
A dish this amazing takes good stuff. Specifically, this good stuff:
To cook the chicken:
- 10 chicken breasts
- 2oz olive oil
- 5 garlic cloves
- 2lb panko bread crumbs
- 6 eggs
- 6oz flour
- 0.5lb whole mozzarella
For the sauce:
- 1 can of San Marzano tomato sauce
- 5 garlic cloves, sliced
- 4oz olive oil
- salt (to taste)
- crushed red pepper (to taste)
- ¼ fresh basil
- fried basil for garnish
For the parmesan crumble:
- 3½ oz parmesan cheese
- 4½ oz cubed butter
- 5⅓ oz high-gluten flour
- salt (to taste)
How to make it:
Lose the canned stuff. Making tomato sauce is easy.
Make parmesan crumbles your favorite way… or this way:
Finally, it’s chicken time:
Let’s bring it all together:
Lose the canned stuff. Making tomato sauce is easy.
- In a hot saucepan oiled up with olive oil, sauté the garlic, the crushed red pepper and the San Marzano tomatoes. Stir continuously.
- Cook for 30 minutes and finish with salt, pepper and more olive oil (plus a little sugar if you’d like). The sauce should be very light in consistency.
Make parmesan crumbles your favorite way… or this way:
- Grab a blender and add grated parmesan cheese, butter, high-gluten flour and salt.
- Blend well, then pass through a fine sieve.
- Scatter the mixture across a baking tray and bake for 240°F for 8 minutes, or until crisp and light golden-brown in color. When cold, break it into crumbles and store in an airtight container.
Finally, it’s chicken time:
- Trim and clean the chicken breast. Cover it so it doesn’t squirt, then pound it with a steak hammer (or meat flattener) until it’s pretty flat. Just make sure the overall shape is retained.
- Beat the eggs, dip the chicken in there and then cover the chicken with panko bread crumbs.
- Shallow-fry the chicken in olive oil along with spring of rosemary and hand-crushed garlic until chicken is cooked. (You’ll know when it’s a nice golden color on all sides.)
Let’s bring it all together:
- Top the cooked meat with tomato sauce. (Reserve some sauce for later.)
- Place thin slices of mozzarella cheese atop the sauce.
- Gratinate (look it up!) the assembled chicken in a salamander (in this case, we’re talking about the stove) until the cheese melts.
- After removing from the salamander, sprinkle with chopped parsley and chili flakes.
- Pour more tomato sauce onto a plate and place the assembled chicken atop the sauce.
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