Wednesday, September 15, 2004

Because you asked for it...
Chicken Parmisana, Mike Calderon style:
serves 3-4

Ingredients needed:
3-4 frozen (thawed) chicken breast (large)
2 cups egg noodles
3 table spoons olive oil (extra virgin)
3 table spoons fresh ground pepper
1 1/2 tea spoons kosher salt
3 table spoons garlic powder (half or whole garlic can be used)
1 stick butter
1 large jar Ragu (or similar style) spaghetti sauce
1 large frying pan (with lid)
1 large pot (filled halfway with already hot water)
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In the large pot, set water to boil on high heat, pouring in one table spoon of olive oil*. Once water is at a boil, season the water with any aromatic herbs as desired. Place in boiling water 2 cups egg noodles (in the United States, called 'No Yolks') and place lid on to continue boil.

Place 2 table spoons olive oil in a frying pan on medium high heat. Place in thawed chicken breasts and liberally season with salt, pepper and garlic powder. Place pan on medium low heat when both sides of chicken have seared slightly, pour full jar of spaghetti sauce onto the chicken breasts and surrounding pan. DO NOT STIR SAUCE AND CHICKEN. Use fresh grated, or already shredded mozzarella and Parmesan cheese to top the chicken breasts and almost all surface areas of the sauce (use as much cheese as desired), the more, the tastier. When bubbles come thru the sauce, turn stovetop off.

Remove noodles from their boil into a sieve or colander, return pot to an unlit burner for final noodle preperation. Place in one stick butter (cut into quarters to help melt) and replace the still steaming noodles to pan. Stir noodles and butter together, seasoning with fresh thyme, basil and crushed garlic cloves (garlic powder an acceptable substitution). Replace lid.

Set side dishes to your liking. Suggested sides:
Sweet baby carrots
Baked Potato
Spinach
Dinner Rolls

Enjoy, voyeurs!

*Olive oil set in water naturally floats to the top. Olive oil in the water doesn't season the water, but it prevents foam-overs from happening when cooking pasta and prevents pasta from sticking to colander.

2 comments:

Valkyrie said...

Thanks! Have printed your blog for the day, and will proceed to the grocery store in an hour or two after work, get the stuff, and then head home and get started on dinner!! Stomach is now growling ominously - may have to leave work early, and get started sooner!

Anonymous said...

Not to sound like a jerk, but olive oil in a pan with water does nothing at all. It's not for flavor, not for foam overs, it's an old wives tale. Salt in the water does more in the way for flavoring the pasta, but olive oil? Nope. Sorry bruddah. Also, your suggestion about it coating the pasta as you pour it into the colandar is false as well. That's the first thing that'll be expelled from the collandar. You add the oil after, so it doesn't stick. But since you're using egg noodles, my suggestion would be to use butter, non-salted. It'd work much better than olive oil. If you wanted to kick it up, I'd do fettucine with oil and garlic.

Sorry for the lousy spelling, it's after 1a, I just got in from work. You've got a great blog, I've been lurking for a while now.

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