Saturday, May 11, 2013

Chicken Milanese

After overlooking the 3-hour cook time for Goop-style brisket, I made her Chicken Milanese my fallback plan for the night:

Recipe

chicken breasts/cutlets
bread crumbs
milk
olive oil

Fold the chicken between parchment paper (leaving plenty of space around...) and pound the crap out of it.  Gwyneth prescribes a pseudo-scientific 1/6" thickness, but I think the key takeaway is to make it as thin as you can before your neighbors complain.  Dip the chicken in milk, dredge through bread crumbs, and pan-fry in about 1/4 cup oil.  If it's thin enough, it should just be a couple minutes per side.

On the Side

Gwyneth lists a couple options to pair some produce with your chicken.  I started with her roasted cherry tomatoes and arugula, but substituted based on what I had on hand (which also happens to be some of my favorites).  I ended up tossing the tomatoes along with chopped sweet potatoes and carrots with some olive oil and spices.  Roasted it at 400 degrees for about 45 minutes - until the tomatoes split and the sweet potato was soft - then stirred in a few handfuls of spinach.

Here's the finished product: