The Best Chicken Parmesan Recipe

We've probably all had our fair share of mediocre or even bad chicken Parmesan. You know the kind that's overcooked, has little flavor, the breading is so so, the sauce is covering the entire surface of the crusted chicken and absorbs right into the crumbs making it soggy, and the cheese is overcooked and chewy?

This crispy chicken parmesan recipe is the opposite of all those negatives. You get:

• A perfectly golden brown crispy parmesan crust. And it's amazingly crisp thanks to the extra crispy Panko and frying it in olive oil.
• Sauce only covered the cheese, which protects that crispy layer of crumbs, so you wont end up with a soggy breading (what's the point of breading if you're just going to soak it in a wet sauce?).
• It has great flavor throughout. There's parmesan and herbs in the breading, two kinds of cheese cover the top, basil, onion and garlic in the homemade marinara, and it's finished with more fresh basil.
• The cheese isn't overly chewy. If you pull it out of the broiler after just a minute or two it should still be stretchy and gooey.

So, in other words this is the homemade chicken Parmesan recipe you'll want for life!

And then they're finished off in the oven with mozzarella and provolone cheese melted on top. Talk about abundance of deliciousness! 

The Crispiest Lemon Chicken

If you love the crispy coating on fried chicken then you won't be able to resist this chicken! Rather than being breaded in flour this version is bread in panko crumbs and fried in olive oil, then it's finished cooking through in the oven. I just can't get enough of that crispy crunch!

And there's a lot more flavor here than in southern style fried chicken, so if you were to ask me to pick one over the other I'd definitely go this route!

So what's with the name Lemon Chicken Romano? It's not really a thing just something I threw together based off the ingredients in the recipe :). But now it's a thing and you're going to love it!