This recipe was adapted from Skinnytaste's Baked Chicken Parmesan. I made this gluten free using gluten free bread crumbs and used an egg instead of butter as the coating ingredient. The ingredients and the recipe are really easy to adapt to make this your own - use an arrabiato sauce to make it spicy, use panko bread crumbs, use butter (instead of eggs)...the possibilities are endless. And that's the great thing about recipes - we all share our recipes, but we have to make them work for us. Just because I prefer gluten free, does not mean someone needs to make this recipe gluten free. It can being anything you want, whatever you crave, however you like to cook. Cooking is fun and it should not be a step by step guide on how to get a good meal. A good meal is one that is made with love and tastes great for the person eating it!
Baked Chicken Parmesan
Servings: 4
Weight Watchers Points: 7
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts (thin sliced), 4 oz. each
5 tbsp Schar Gluten Free Bread Crumbs
2 tbsp Parmesan Cheese, grated
1/2 Cup Low-Moisture Part Skim Mozzarella Cheese, shredded
1/2 Cup Tomato & Basil Marinara Sauce
1 egg
1/4 cup egg whites
1. Preheat oven to 450. Spray a baking sheet with cooking spray.
2. If your chicken breasts are not purchased thin, place a piece of chicken in between saran wrap and pound them thin. Make sure they are even to allow for even cooking.
3. Combine breadcrumbs and parmesan cheese in a bowl.
4. In a separate bowl, whisk together egg and egg whites.
5. One at a time, dip a piece of chicken into the egg mixture, followed by the breadcrumb mixture. Coat both sides of chicken with egg and breadcrumbs and place on baking sheet. Repeat with the remaining chicken.
6. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes
7. Remove the baking sheet from the oven and put 2 tbsp of sauce over each chicken.
8. Top each piece with 2 tbsp of shredded cheese.
9. Bake for an addition 5 minutes, or until cheese is melted.
10. Serve and Enjoy!
This morning was surprisingly warm considering yesterday we had a 3-part storm and have another round of snow coming tomorrow. I decided to walk to work since I hadn't done that before. The streets were very slushy, a few were icy, and there were puddles everywhere. But besides that, the walk was extremely enjoyable. I walked up 1st avenue from 23rd street to 42nd street and it took 25 minutes door-to-door to get to work! The views from 1st Avenue across the East River are beautiful too - a lot of 1st avenue in the 30's is NYU buildings including Bellevue (translated to Beautiful View) and the hospital and once you come up on 39th street, there are unobstructed views of Brooklyn/Long Island City! It was a beautiful sight and I can't wait to see what it looks like in the summer when I walk to work on a warm spring day! I didn't go to Bar Method this morning because I wasn't sure how the weather and streets would be. I wanted to try to go to an evening class tonight, but honestly, I didn't sleep well last night and I would prefer to get the activity from walking home rather than deal with a Friday evening in SoHo on Valentine's Day. I am going to go to class tomorrow morning but I might have to leave early and walk to the train or take the crosstown bus because I am not sure if a citibike is the best choice since most are buried under snow and the bike lanes are pretty icy. I will play it by ear and maybe bike home from the studio if the roads don't seem too bad (but there is more snow in the forecast so who knows).
Are you tired of hearing me talk about snow, because trust me, I am tired of writing about it! I can't wait to see with Peter Cooper/Stuy-Town is like in the summer with movies and concerts on the green and a farmer's market and the community of people out and about together. It's beautiful right now in the dead of winter, but it's too cold and icy to be walking around exploring. We haven't made it to the East River Promenade either because it's been too cold to go for a long walk on the water. That is something I really miss about Brooklyn - our promenade only 3 blocks from our house with the most spectacular views of Lower Manhattan. I can't wait to see what the view looks like from this side though! Funny enough, I used to have my 12th grade Science Class along the Easter River promenade 9 years ago! It's so crazy to think that my life has come full circle in NYC and I am living across the street from my Middle School and down the block from my High School.
I love NYC (maybe not this winter) and I am so happy with how everything has worked out for me and Ryan. We are a family and we have to think as a family and living and working in NYC is the best thing for us right now. I have thought about moving - possibly to the West Coast, where it's much warmer, but Ryan and I are in a great place right now. We have family close to us, we have great jobs, we have friends here and we are comfortable in a new apartment. I would love to travel more together - Italy was our first big trip together and I fell in love with traveling and sight seeing. It's expensive, but it's something worth saving for! There's so much to see and do outside of New York City and I don't want to feel like I was stuck in one of the greatest cities, but never experienced anything outside of it. I love having my family in the city, and Ryan's is so close in Boston and I wouldn't want to put a strain on our relationship by being far away from our families, but as long as we take time to travel and have new experiences, our relationship together can only get stronger. We are planning to go to Puerto Rico in June - Ryan is going for a conference as part of work and I am going to tag along! He has been going to this conference for 2 years now and both times it has been in California and I have not been able to take time off of work to go. I want to go this year since I have never been to Puerto Rico and I have the vacation time to do it. I wanted to also plan a trip to San Francisco this year for us - it is my favorite city and I only went once with my family many years ago and I fell in love and want Ryan to experience it so much! I think we will have to wait on that trip until 2015 because the amount of money we put into our move and making our new home beautiful has been the same as a second trip. I am so happy with our home and wouldn't change the amount of money we spent, as long as we now know we need to start saving again!
Our dining room table should be delivered next week; it was delayed because of the snow storm (surprise, surprise). I can't wait to start having people over for dinner - it's getting hard to cook and bake for only 2 people. We get stuck with so many yummy leftovers and we just have to eat them all, right? I've been bringing some of the cupcakes and cornbread to work so that we don't let it go to waste sitting at home (or eat it all ourselves). I love cooking and sharing my food and time with others and having a dining room table will be the best thing for us. Ryan and I love being home rather than going out, so entertaining at our house is the best for us. We just haven't been able to the past 3 years because our house was too small - I didn't think people would appreciate sitting around a coffee table on the floor as much as we did!
Stay safe and warm everyone and have a beautiful Valentine's Day!
XO
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