Recipe: Tasty Chicken Schnitzel

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Chicken Schnitzel. Growing up, chicken schnitzel was a classic. I decided to make this dish oven-friendly using less oil, and an easier cleanup. This dish tastes great with potato salad, or mashed potatoes and a nice crisp salad.

Chicken Schnitzel Wipe the skillet clean with paper towels. Heat butter until melted and add wine. This is a grandma recipe so you know it's going to be good. You can cook Chicken Schnitzel using 10 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken Schnitzel

  1. Prepare 2 pound of chicken breast boneless and skinless strips.
  2. Prepare 2-1/2 cups of panko breadcrumbs.
  3. You need 1 cup of all-purpose flour unbleached.
  4. You need 1 tablespoon of ground paprika.
  5. It's 1 teaspoon of salt.
  6. It's 1 teaspoon of ground black pepper.
  7. You need 1 of extra large egg.
  8. It's 1/2 cup of water.
  9. Prepare As needed of peanut oil to medium fry in.
  10. It's 1 gallon of sized ziploc bag.

Make sure to serve with classic German sides like potato salad, sauerkraut and spaetzle. To make chicken schnitzel you make it the same way you would make a veal schnitzel or pork schnitzel. You then bread the chicken by first dredging it through flour, then egg wash and finally breadcrumbs. Place the chicken breasts on a chopping board and use a sharp knife to slice horizontally through the breasts to create two or three (depending on the thickness) thin, even slices per breast.

Chicken Schnitzel step by step

  1. Add chicken to a ziploc bag open just a small opening on the corner. Now beat the chicken thin. Mix the flour, egg, paprika, salt, and pepper. Add the water a bit at a time. You don't want it to thin or to thick. Heat the oil in a skillet..
  2. Add chicken to flour mixture. Then coat the battered chicken with panko breadcrumbs. Add to the hot oil and fry..
  3. Turn as needed. Then move to paper towels to absorb excessive amounts of oil. Repeat till done. Serve I hope you enjoy! You can sprinkle with salt when you move to paper towels if you like..

Put the chicken on a plate and chill in the fridge until ready to eat if you're not cooking them straight away. Heat the oil in a large frying pan over a fairly high heat and cook the chicken schnitzels two at a time. Chicken schnitzel is thinned by pounding with e.g. a meat hammer. I always use a rolling pin to get the same result. I always use a rolling pin to get the same result.