Bring the flavors of Italy to your kitchen table with this easy chicken Milanese recipe. Crispy Italian style chicken cutlets are sautéd on the stovetop to create a simple homey, delicious meal your whole family will love! You really can’t beat Italian classics. Now you can have an amazing restaurant quality dinner right at home and it’s easier to put together you can imagine! The best part is that it’s an easy 30-minute dinner!
If you love restaurant-style Italian chicken dinners, I hope you’ll try my Chicken Francaise, Italian dressing chicken, and Chicken Murphy next — or browse all my favorites in this Chicken Dinner Recipes collection.
Let’s make this chicken!
What I Love About This Recipe
These are the few things I love about this chicken recipe:
- Ready fast and totally scrumptious!!
- Made with simple ingredients
- Dinner ready in 30 minutes!
Chicken Milanese Ingredients
Cooking up a batch of scrumptious Milanese Chicken only requires a few simple kitchen staples. Here’s what ya’ need!
- Chicken Breast – Using thin-cut chicken breast is the key to an awesome chicken recipe. I like to tenderize the chicken breasts to an even consistency of about ¼ inch. This helps the chicken to cook evenly without being too chewy.
- Flour – Dredging your chicken breasts in flour is the first step in the breading process.
- Breadcrumbs – Mixing your breadcrumbs with parmesan cheese and Italian seasoning gives you a complete and insanely delicious breading. Using panko breadcrumbs allows the other flavors to shine through.
- Eggs: I use large eggs.
- Parmesan Cheese: Use the Parmesan that comes in the tub from the deli section, not the type that comes from the green cardboard tube.
- Italian Seasoning: I love this blend of seasoning. My favorite brand is McCormick perfect pinch Italian seasoning.
- Salt and Pepper: Table salt and fresh cracked black pepper.
- Butter: I use unsalted butter.
- Olive Oil: I like to use a mild flavor olive oil.
- Parsley: Adds a touch of herbaceous flavor.
- Lemon: Adds a pretty garnish.
How To Make Chicken Milanese
- Pound the chicken breasts to even the thickness. Season with salt and pepper.
- Dredge the chicken one at a time in flour, then in eggs, then in breadcrumbs with Parmesan cheese and Italian seasoning.
- Heat the butter and olive oil in a skillet. Add the chicken and brown until golden.
- Garnish with parsley and serve with sliced lemons.
***See the full instructions below.
Storing + Freezing + Make-Ahead
- Storing Tips: Storing your delectable chicken is as easy as sliding it into the fridge in an airtight container. To protect it from the air, it helps to lay a piece of plastic wrap over the top of the container before securing the lid. Sometimes I wrap mine in tin foil to save space in the fridge.
- How Long Can You Keep This In The Fridge? This will stay fresh and yummy for up to 4 days in the fridge.
- Can You Freeze Them? Absolutely, This makes an awesome freezer meal! Simply slow thaw in the fridge and bake in a preheated oven at 400ºF (204ºC) for about 7-9 minutes. You’ll only want to give it enough time to heat through and crisp up.
- Make Ahead Tips: This is best enjoyed fresh, but it can be made ahead in a pinch. If necessary, you can whip this up and slide it into the fridge in a covered container until you’re ready to heat and serve.
- Food Safety: If you’d like more info on food safety check out this link. It’s best to let it cool completely before preparing for storage and reserve the FDA-recommended 2-hour serving suggestion.
Serving Recommendations
We love this with a crisp salad like our 1905 salad, pizza salad, strawberry salad (with arugula + blue cheese!), or our most popular Mediterranean salad! We also love the simple flavors of this dish with tomatoes, as in our marinated tomato salad.
If you’d like to pair this dish with a pasta salad, we love it with our amazing Italian pasta salad, Mediterranean pasta salad, pesto pasta salad, chicken caesar pasta salad, or our quick and easy pasta salad with Italian dressing! I promise all of these pasta salads will go marvelously with the simple flavors of this chicken dish.
Feeling more like a cooked veggie? I’ve got you. This is wonderful with our simple roasted peppers (roasting this vegetable makes it literally taste like candy, without all the sugar!), roasted green beans with shallots and pancetta, honey glazed carrots or brown sugar glazed carrots, or roasted Brussels sprouts with pancetta and sage. No boring vegetables here my friends!
Recipe Variations
- Baking Option – You’ll need to prep a large, rimmed baking pan with a rack (I like to line the pan with foil too), then place the breaded chicken breasts on top of the rack. Bake in a 425ºF (218ºC) oven for 10 – 15 mins (without turning).
More Mediterranean Chicken Recipes
- Chicken Vesuvio
- Olive Garden Chicken Alfredo
- Chicken Scarpariello
- Pesto Chicken
- Chicken Lombardy
- Chicken Marbella
- Chicken Murphy
- Chicken Gyro
- Greek Chicken
- Balsamic Chicken
- Italian Chicken Soup
- Honey Balsamic Chicken
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Chicken Milanese
Ingredients
- 4 chicken breast thin-cut, boneless. skinless
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 large eggs lightly beaten
- 1 1/2 cups panko bread crumbs
- 2/3 cup parmesan cheese grated
- 2 teaspoons dried Italian seasoning
- salt
- pepper
- 2 tablespoons butter divided
- 2 tablespoons olive oil divided
- 2 tablespoons fresh parsley chopped
- 1 lemon slices
Instructions
- On a cutting board, place chicken breasts (4) between 2 sheets of waxed paper. Using the smooth side of a meat mallet, lightly pound chicken breasts until they are a consistent 1/4 inch thick. Generously salt and pepper both sides of the chicken
- In 3 shallow dishes, add the flour (1/3 cup) to one, the eggs (2) to another, and the bread crumbs (1 1/2 cups) combined with the Parmesan cheese (2/3 cup) and dried Italian seasoning (2 teaspoons) to another. dredge them 1 at a time in the flour, then quickly dunk both sides in the egg mixture and then coat both sides in the breadcrumb mixture.
- Heat 1 tablespoon butter and 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large nonstick skillet. Add 2 pieces of the chicken and brown until golden, 2-4 minutes per side; remove to a plate. Add the remaining butter and olive oil to the skillet and repeat with remaining chicken.
- Garnish chicken with parsley (2 tablespoons) and serve with sliced lemons.
I’m so glad I found your website. 🙂
I’ve made the Chicken Milanese every week.
It’s great for meal prep. and leftovers to take to work.
Thanks, Patti (Calif)
Hey, Patti! Yaaay! So glad you this recipe is now a regular at your kitchen 🙂 Thanks for the rating and positive feedback!
Super easy and quick to make. Whole family loved it and will add this to the meal rotation. Thanks for the easy directions!
Thank you so much, Kayla! It’s so crispy and easy to make, right? 🙂
Very well explained and a perfect recipe for thin chicken slices …
Thank you, Bruce!
So crispy
The directions don’t include what to do with the egg, flour and panko. I assume it’s for breading, but in what order? I’m going to try this, it sounds like a dish I had at an Italian restaurant, but it was smothered in fresh tomato/fresh basil/ balsamic vinaigrette.
Hi Ruth. Dredge them 1 at a time in the flour, then quickly dunk both sides in the egg mixture and then coat both sides in the breadcrumb mixture. <3
Hi! After Step 2 in the recipe, you’ll dip the chicken breast into the flour, then egg before coating it with bread crumbs. Hope this helps!
Can you bake the chicken too?
Hi, Cris. Yes. You’ll need to prep a large, rimmed baking pan with a rack (I like to line the pan with foil too), then place the breaded chicken breasts on top of the rack. Bake in a 425-degree oven for 10 – 15 mins (without turning).
Easy to cook and simple to make! Great Sunday dinner!
Thank you, JoAnn!! Glad you like it! Thanks for the rating too 🙂 <3
Kathleen, this recipe was a hit at my house. With the left over chicken patties, I am thinking about a chick BLT the next day. My whole tribe loves Gonna Want Seconds! Thanks for the inspiration. Phillip
Hi Phillip. You made my day! I hope you find lots more recipes you and your family enjoy! 🙂
This was both easy and delicious! Not wanting the same “old” chicken for dinner, this was a quick and easy fix.
Glad you enjoyed this recipe Kimberly, I hope you check out more of our quick and easy chicken recipes. Thanks for sharing with us!