Feats of Feasts

I am reposting this because for some reason the old post was inaccessible.

I had this dish like two nights ago. I only thought of this recipe because I had some leftover marinara sauce. My husband loves chicken parmigiana…actually he loves the chicken parmigiana at Tappers in Jaya One. When I was there for the food, the service sucked so bad. The servers just could not handle the weekend crowd and kept ignoring our table because we had the largest group. And what’s worse is that they can’t speak either BM or English. So I don’t think I’ll be going back there any time soon. But chicken parmigiana is basically a slab of lean chicken, fried and then baked in marinara sauce topped with cheese, either parmesan or mozzarella.

I made this on one of those days when you are so occupied with something, dinner was the last thing in mind. For example, my long abandoned stove maintenance. Although I tell myself, I must keep it clean at least once a week, somehow it always gets the best of me and becomes like some unimaginable greasy mess. Oh, bee hoon…you are such a bane to my existence although you are nice to eat, bits and pieces of you always seem to fly everywhere!

I hate it when it comes to this state. It makes everything else in the kitchen look so horrible. So…no more putting it off, gloves on, de-greaser…check, scrub….check, scrap cloths…check. After 2 hours of intense cleaning, it has become sane again, albeit some stubborn bits that just won’t come off no matter how hard I scrubbed. I even cleaned inside the oven although I haven’t deodorise it, something which I keep telling myself to do once a month. *sigh…I just don’t listen to my inner ambition.

So, back to the yummy food and enough with gross pics of dirty spots. Even after all that work, I had to think about dinner so I was mighty pleased to find a tub of marinara I had made earlier but forgot about it since it was way back in the fridge. Now, my problem with frying chicken breasts is that I’m always worried the thicker part won’t cook through but I’m pretty confident with this dish because it’ll still be put into the oven to bake with the sauce.

We had a delicious meal, I even managed to do some baked potatoes although we couldn’t eat it in the end because the chicken itself was so filling. That became a leftover lunch. I do wonder if it would make a difference not to fry the chicken in breadcrumbs, but I think this way…it locks in the moisture of the chicken and doesn’t dry out when you bake it either.

Enjoy it plain…or over some pasta!

For recipe on baked potato, click here.