Ingredients:
2 large chicken breasts (8 oz each)
Italian bread crumbs
4 half ounce slices of fresh parmesan cheese
1 T Olive oil
Pasta sauce (I used Prego mushroom flavor spaghetti sauce)
1 Can diced tomatoes (drained)
Spicy Spaghetti Seasoning (I buy this at Sam's Club but your own seasoning would work fine)
Wheat pasta noodles
Directions:
Chicken:
Cut each chicken breast in half so that you have two thinner pieces of chicken. Place a piece of plastic wrap on top of the first piece of chicken and use a mallet to pound the chicken into a larger, flatter piece. Repeat for all pieces.
Pour Italian bread crumbs onto a plate and place piece of chicken in them. It might help if the chicken is a little moist so the bread crumbs stick. Cover one side of the chicken with the crumbs.
Slice thin pieces of Parmesan cheese and cover one half of the top side of the piece of chicken with cheese. Fold the other half over trapping the cheese inside. Repeat for all pieces of chicken.
In a large frying pan heat some olive oil on medium heat. Once the oil is hot place the chicken in the pan and quickly fry both sides. Once all chicken has been fried, reduce heat and cover the pan so that the inside of the chicken can cook.
Sauce:
Pour pasta sauce into a pot. Add canned diced tomatoes and seasoning. Heat up and then simmer.
After the chicken is fully cooked (you can cut into one and check if you're not sure), serve wheat pasta, cover with sauce, and place chicken on top.
Note: Also very good over rice!
This makes 4 servings.
* My own recipe
