Winner, Winner - Chicken Dinner

If you’re into making a big’ol pan fried meal mess on your stove top this is worth the trouble.   

Seriously, this was awesome.  If you like pan-fried chicken - do this!

The only changes I made to the recipe were as follows:       

1.  I beat the meat with a hammer         

2.  Substituted no-fat plain Greek yogurt in the marinade           

3.  No onion powder. I was out of it. Upped the chives. I have chives everywhere          

4.  Sauce was sour cream, lemon juice and more chives.  Easy-peasy.           

Pro-Tip - let everything come to room temp before the Panko and use neutral canola oil. Skip the EVO.  Did not miss the onion powder - that much if it was scary.  Use only fresh boneless, skinless chicken breasts - the pieces that come in a bulk bag, flash-frozen and with added saline solution are worthless.      

This has possibilities as crowd food.  Prep everything ahead and cook a pile of cutlets in the outdoor turkey fryer.  Cook as strips for finger food and dipping or cutlets served on a hard roll with lettuce, tomato and the sauce.  Might consider crushed potato chips instead of Panko as well.      

Thanks Sam Sifton and Melissa Clark for your daily emails.         

Link with full instructions here.

Prep

Ready for the pan

 Ready to plate

 Served - big side salad, crusty,whole-grain slice of loaf, sauce and lemon wedge