Quick and Simple.... MOMADVICE Recipe Budget
We are going with the Salsa Chicken for tonight...sounds delicious! Then again, we have plenty of ground turkey here and the Poor Man's Chicken Parmesan sounds rather tempting as well:
Poor Man’s Chicken Parmesan
Ingredients
2 jars of spaghetti sauce
1 lb ground turkey
1 cup breadcrumbs
2 cups breadcrumbs
1 egg
salt & pepper to taste
garlic powder to taste
Butter
Olive oil
1 cup shredded mozzarella cheese
1/2 cup grated or shredded Parmesan cheese
Place ground meat into a large mixing bowl. Add egg & incorporate into meat. Add 1 cup bread crumbs. Add salt, pepper & garlic powder to taste. Combine ingredients by hand until well-blended. Heat non-stick frying pan. Melt about 1 TB of butter & about 1 TB of olive oil in pan. Put 2 cups bread crumbs into flat dish. Measure 1/3 cup of meat with a 1/3 measuring cup & flatten meat into a patty, like a hamburger. Press patty into dish with bread crumbs to coat/bread patty. Cook patty in butter & olive oil just until both sides are browned. Depending on size of pan, cook 3-4 patties at once. Place patties in a flat baking dish, sprayed with cooking oil if desired. Repeat until all of meat mixture is used. Spoon some sauce onto top of each patty. Sprinkle with Parmesan and mozzarella. Drizzle more sauce on top of cheese. Bake at 350 until cheese is melted and bubbly, but not brown; about 15-20 minutes. Special Note: For kids, 1/4 measuring cup of meat is a great serving size.
Makes 6-8 patties.
Serve with angel hair pasta tossed with your favorite tomato sauce.
Amy’s Tips:
This is one of my favorite recipes for doubling and freezing for other meals. You can easily double the recipe and put the cooked patties in a freezer safe container to save you from another night of cooking.
Not in the mood for a chicken parmesan dish with pasta? This meal can be prepared as a chicken parmesan burger too! If you can’t get the kids to eat it the old-fashioned way, throw it on a bun and they will gobble it up!
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