Monday, December 12, 2011

Chicken Parmesan Bake

So in our household Italian style dishes are very common and to say that we like carbs is a MAJOR understatement. But honestly, the traditional spaghetti is getting a little old to me. So for new ideas I turned to my new love...Pinterest, of course, and found this super easy recipe for Chicken Parmesan Bake. The only thing I didn't like about the website was that he doesn't have the directions written down, but he does have a handy video tutorial on it all (and for people like me who are extremely visual this actually was neat). But for those of you who would like it written down, here ya go:

Ingredients:
2 Tbsp olive oil (I just eyeballed this)
2 cloves garlic, crushed (we somehow didn't have fresh garlic so I just used garlic powder)
red pepper flakes, to taste
6 thawed, boneless, chicken breasts (however many will fill up your pan, just don't overlap them)
2 cups marinara sauce
1/4 cup fresh basil (again we didn't have this so I improvised with dried basil)
8 oz shredded mozarella cheese
4 oz grated parmesan cheese
5 oz garlic croutons

1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees
2) In a 9x13 baking dish spread olive oil, garlic, and red pepper flakes to coat bottom
3) Now layer everything else in the pan in this order: chicken breasts, marinara sauce, basil, 1/2 the mozarella cheese, 1/2 the parmesan cheese, croutons, remaining mozarella cheese, and remaining parmesan cheese.

Bake for about 30 min until chicken is 155 degrees internally.

We had some toasted garlic bread with ours to help with all the sauce. Delish!

And because I totally forgot to take a picture of this before we started eating, here is a picture of something else...
of course it's one of the puppies :)

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