This delicious Chicken Parmesan is a lightened up, and healthier version that you can make in one pan for a perfect weeknight dinner.
Ingredients
Three boneless skinless, chicken breasts, pounded to one inch thick
1/4 cup flour
salt & pepper
1 tbsp olive oil
1 28 ounce can diced tomatoes
1 5.5 ounce can no salt added tomato paste
1 cup baby spinach leaves
2 tbsp dried basil
1 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Instructions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Heat an oven proof skillet over medium high heat with oil
Season Chicken Breasts with salt & pepper on each side.
Put chicken breasts, laid flat, in a zip lock bag, with air expressed, and zipped up.
Using the flat side of a meat mallet, pound chicken breasts to an even thickness, starting in the thickest parts and working out. Pound to about a one inch even thickness
Open ziplock bag and add flour. close up again and shake bag to coat chicken breasts.
In a bowl, whisk together diced tomatoes, tomato paste, and basil
Transfer chicken breasts to the heated skillet. Sear on each side for 2-3 minutes until crusty and golden on either side. Turn heat off skillet. Distribute spinach leaves over the chicken. Pour tomato mixture over the chicken.
Evenly divide Parmesan cheese over each chicken breast.
Put the skillet in center of oven and bake for
FULL RECIPE
