Chicken Parmesan

Total Time: I hour 30 minutes Introduction: This is a classic international dish tracing its origin from Italy. It is mostly prepared with tomato sauce and fresh mozzarella. It is a delicious meal and a sure way to impress your guests. Ingredients Olive oil Minced garlic cloves Bay leaves Pitted kalamata olives Fresh basil leaves Drained and hand crushed peeled tomatoes Sugar Freshly ground black pepper Chicken breasts Flour Eggs Water Bread crumbs Water drained fresh buffalo Mozzarella Grated parmesan Spaghetti Procedure: 1. Coat a frying pan olive oil 2. Add onions, bay leaves and garlic after the oil gets hot 3. Cook and stir the mixture until they become fragrant and soft 4. Add olives and hard torn basil to the mixture. Add tomatoes to the mixture also very carefully 5. Cook and stir for a moment until when the liquid gets cooked and you have a thick sauce 6. Season with sugar and pepper 7. Lower the cooking heat, cover the mixture and keep it warm 8. Turn on the cooking oven and let it heat to about 230oC 9. Get all the chicken ingredients which shall be used. 10. Put them together in order to avoid wasting the time needed for assembly 11. Put the chicken breasts side by side on a chopping board and wrap them using a plastic piece of paper 12. Pound or hit the chicken breasts using some force using a mallet. Make sure their size get reduced to about a half an inch thick only 13. Put the flour in a shallow container. Season the wheat flour using salt and pepper 14. Using a fork, mix it evenly and ensure it is distributed evenly on the surface of the shallow container 15. Using a separate wide bowl, crush the eggs and combine them with water. 16. Stir the mixture of the tow until they become frothy 17. Put the bread crumbs on another plate and use salt and pepper to do the seasoning 18. Heat the olive oil using a medium flame in an oven proof iron pan 19. Dredge both sides of the chicken into the seasoned flour 20. Then, deep them into water mixture egg and coat them completely. 21. Allow the excess to come off from the chicken pieces and then dredge them into the bread crumbs 22. When the oil has become hot, add the small pound pieces of meat and fry them each for about four minutes on either side until they turn golden 23. Spread the tomato olive sauce over the chicken pieces. Sprinkle the pieces then with parmesan, mozzarella and basil 24. You now have the parmesan chicken, bake it for quarter an hour until the cheese turns bubbly 25. Serve the hot parmesan chicken with spaghetti Note: The higher the quality of your tomato sauce, the better will be the results. For the choice of basil, you can use any Italian herb or you omit completely.