Baked Chicken Milanese with Lemony Escarole

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  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Mediterranean Every Day: Simple, Inspired Recipes for Feel-Good Food

By Sheela Prakash

Published 2020

  • About

I’ve always kind of thought of chicken Milanese as sort of an upside-down salad: Crispy chicken piled high with simply dressed greens. Here, the greens are escarole, which have all the crunch romaine lettuce delivers but with a nutty, mildly bitter flavor that plays well with the breaded chicken, lemony vinaigrette, and salty shaved cheese.

There are a few tricks to making baked breaded chicken come out as crispy as it would be if fried. First, toast the bread crumbs before dredging

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