Photo credit – Jennifer
Recipe by Jennifer – Source
For the recipe ‘Chicken Schnitzel’, you have to first start with large chicken breasts (4 in number). As per your choice, you can either slice them in half (longitudinally) or you can pound them thin. If you are going the ‘slicing’ way, then you have to keep on cutting them until the two pieces gets separated. This is a perfect way of getting chicken cutlets wherein, you can pound them thinner by placing a plastic over them.
INGREDIENTS
- Three-fourths of a cup of low carb flour. You can take almonds (simply grounded) or almond flour (mixed; 175ml)
- Half cup of 60 ml cheese (Parmesan; grated but not the fresh kind)
- Three-fourths of teaspoon of salt (3ml)
- Half teaspoon of seasoning (Italian; 2ml)
- One fourth of teaspoon of pepper (black; 1ml)
- Eggs (Three in number)
- One tablespoon of water (15ml)
- Chicken breasts (Large; Four in number)
- Olive oil (Light tasting; and for frying)
- Lemon wedges and chopped parsley (Suggested garnishes)
DIRECTIONS
- The first step is to combine the ingredients – almond flour, cheese (Parmesan), salt, seasoning (Italian) and pepper (black) in a medium bowl and mix thoroughly. Taking another medium bowl, the eggs have to be beaten along with water together with a fork.
- Next step is to remove any excess fat or tiny pieces of bone from the chicken breasts.
- Now, longitudinally, start to slice the chicken and keep on doing so until the two pieces are separated.
- Take the chicken piece and now dip it in egg wash and don’t forget to spoon the seasoned bake mix over the chicken pieces.
- Taking the three pieces of chicken (prepared), place them in a non-stick frying pan and then fry them for five minutes on medium heat until it turns golden brown underneath on one side; then do the same with the other side too for another four to six minutes. But yes, do lower the temperature, if you feel that they are becoming too brown.
- After frying the chicken pieces, make sure that the chicken is fried thoroughly and no white and pink areas are left behind. However, keep in mind that since you want your chicken to be moist and tender until the ‘breading’ so, don’t overcook them.
- Finally, serve the chicken pieces with lemon wedges and sprinkle the chopped parsley over the chicken.
HELPFUL HINTS
- Due to nutritional analysis, olive oil has not been taken into consideration.
- The seasoning (Italian) consists of various elements, such as oregano, basil, marjoram, rosemary and thyme. You can mix in equal quantities in order to make your own version.
YIELD
- Six servings
- One serving
- Calories (224.8)
- Protein (27.0 gram)
- Fat (10.4 gram)
3.5-gram net carbs
