If you love chicken parm but don’t want to over indulge, this baked crispy chicken parmesan recipe is a great compromise. The only person that will know it is the healthier version of chicken parmesan is the person making it.
On top of being super tasty, this is a super easy chicken parmesan recipe. There are only a few steps to this oven baked parmesan chicken, making it a wonderful meal for a busy weeknight.
This healthy baked chicken parmesan recipe is also a great meal to make up and save the leftovers or even freeze part of it. The kids even love to help make the chicken with me too!
Our easy pan butter biscuits or Olive Garden breadsticks copycat recipe and a Italian fresh green salad go perfectly with this pasta dish if you want to make it feel like you are eating out for dinner.
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Ingredients You Need to For This Baked Crispy Chicken Parmesan Recipe:
- Cooking spray
- Cheese and garlic croutons
- Boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- Beaten egg
- Marinara sauce
- Shredded mozzarella cheese
- Cooked pasta
How To Make This Baked Crispy Chicken Parmesan Recipe:
When you are ready for dinner, prepare your noodles according to the directions on the box for al dente.
Then preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
Now, get out a large baking sheet and spray it with vegetable cooking spray and set it aside.
Then in a large ziplock bag, place the crouton and use a rolling pin to crush up the croutons until they become crumbs.
Next, take out your chicken and dip one breast in the beaten egg.
Following the egg, place the chicken in the crushed up croutons and coat both sides of the chicken.
Once the chicken is breaded, place it on the prepared baking sheet and continue the same steps with the rest of the chicken breasts.
After all of the chicken is on the sheet, spray the tops of the breaded chicken with vegetable cooking spray and then place the baking sheet in the oven.
Allow the chicken to bake for 20-30 minutes, or until the chicken is cooked all the way through.
While the chicken is cooking, heat up the pasta sauce over medium heat in a small saucepan.
When the chicken is done, serve it over the cooked noodles and top it with the warm pasta sauce and parmesan cheese and then dig in!
To Make Our Healthy Baked Chicken Parmesan Recipe You Will Need:
- Large baking sheet (THESE are great!)
- Large pot
- Small saucepan
- Shallow bowl (2)
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Extremely Tasty Pasta Sauce
Chicken parmesan has some delicious flavors, and the sauce is definity a key component to that. If you have the time and energy, this homemade pasta sauce from Scrambled Chefs is wonderful!
You can prepare the homemade sauce ahead of time, and then warm it up when your chicken is ready. If not, I always tend to get the basil, oregano, and garlic pasta sauce in the jars at the grocery store.
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Pasta to Use for Chicken Parmesan
The traditional pasta to use for chicken parmesan is spaghetti noodle, but that is not the only kind you can use for this recipe.
You can use your favorite pasta or even spiralized zucchini works great too! But anything in the noodle form will work great and taste awesome.
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Baked Crispy Chicken Parmesan Recipe
Ingredients
- cooking spray
- 2 cups cheese and garlic croutons
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- 1 egg, beaten
- 1 cup marinara sauce, heated
- ¾ cup shredded Mozzarella cheese
- 4 Tablespoon Parmesan cheese, optional
- 8 ounces pasta, cooked
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
- Spray baking sheet with vegetable cooking spray.
- Place croutons in zipper plastic bag. Close and crush with rolling pin until crumbs form.
- Dip chicken into beaten egg.
- Coat with crushed crouton crumbs.
- Place chicken on prepared baking sheet.
- Spray chicken with vegetable cooking spray.
- Bake 20-30 minutes or until chicken is done.
- Spoon pasta sauce over chicken and sprinkle with cheese.
- Sprinkle each chicken breast with 1 Tablespoon grated Parmesan Cheese (optional)
- Serve over cooked pasta.
Notes
- The traditional pasta to use for chicken parmesan is spaghetti noodle, but that is not the only kind you can use for this recipe.
- You can use your favorite pasta or even spiralized zucchini works great too! But anything in the noodle form will work great and taste awesome.
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Yum! This looks excellent! I have to add it to my list to try. Thanks for the recipe!
We are trying to eat a little bit healthier too. Love that this is like fried but really is baked!!!!
Oh I wish I checked your blog b4 I made dinner!
I made this tonight and it was really good! I made my own spaghetti sauce and served it over whole wheat pasta (I’m so glad it tastes GOOD now…remember when you first saw it in stores and it was disgusting?). My chicken breasts were really thick, and I wish I would have pounded them out first because the chicken was a little plain, and I think it was because the chicken:crouton ratio was too high. I also microwaved each portion for about a minute after adding the cheese just to melt the cheese.
I made this last night for a dinner celebrating my mom’s retirement. Everyone loved it!I halved my chicken breasts and poured the leftover crouton crumbs over the chicken. Also, after the chicken cooked for 20 mins I turned off the oven, poured the sauce around the chicken, covered in cheese, and popped back in the oven until the cheese was melted.
My boyfriend who always finds ways to improve a dish admitted he had NO constructive criticism. This recipe’s definitely a keeper
How much parmesan is called for in the recipe, I don’t see it listed. thank you
You can sprinkle 1 Tablespoon of grated Parmesan Cheese on each chicken breast if you desire.