Oven Baked Parmesan Chicken (Great For Beginner Cooks)
Created by KittenCal on December 2, 2011
- Servings: 4
- Prep Time: 10m
- Cook Time: 40m
- Recipe #3297
Ingredients
- 1 1/4 pounds chicken boneless skinless chicken breasts (3 med-large breasts)
- 1 egg, large (slightly beaten)
- 1 cup bread crumbs, dry (Italian seasoned dry bread crumbs, see the link on Description)
- 1 jar (26 ounce) pasta sauce (meatless sauce)
- 4 to 8 ounces mozzarella cheese slices (4-8 slices, or as many as you want)
How to Make
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Step 1: Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (set oven rack to lowest position). Grease a 13 x 9-inch glass baking dish.
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Step 2: Place the egg in a shallow bowl then place the seasoned breadcrumbs in another shallow bowl.
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Step 3: Dip chicken in egg then coat in the bread crumbs pressing down with fingers to adhere the coating firmly to the chicken.
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Step 4: Bake uncovered 20 minutes (if using a metal baking dish bake for 25 minutes).
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Step 5: Remove from oven pour the marinara sauce over chicken, then top each breast with 2 mozzarella slices. Return to oven and bake an additional 15-20 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink.
Nutritional Facts
- Serving Size: 1 (389.6 g)
- Calories 460.2
- Total Fat - 17.8 g
- Saturated Fat - 6.6 g
- Cholesterol - 334.8 mg
- Sodium - 1196.8 mg
- Total Carbohydrate - 20.4 g
- Dietary Fiber - 3.6 g
- Sugars - 11.1 g
- Protein - 51.5 g
- Calcium - 385.3 mg
- Iron - 4 mg
- Vitamin C - 3.7 mg
- Thiamin - 0.2 mg