Breaded Chicken Cutlet

Ingredients

1-3 Thin sliced chicken breasts 

1 cup of flour

3 eggs 

2 cups of breadcrumbs 

1/3 cup of vegtable oil 

Steps

Coat each chicken strip in flour. Brush off the excess back into the bowl. 

After the flour is applied dip the entire strip in the eggs (Raw and scrambled up so the yolk and whites are mixed)

Hold the strip over the egg bowl so the excess can drip off back into the bowl

Press both sides of the chicken into a pile of breadcrumbs, so they stick in an even coat on both sides.

Once the chicken has been breaded  place them in a frying pan that has the 1/3 cup of oil so they are not fully submerged but so they are in a shallow pool of oil.

Allow the chicken to fry until one side begins to brown (2-4 minutes depending on thickness of chicken strips)

Repeat the previos step but with the other side of the chicken.

Remove from pan and place the breasts on a baking pan. 

Bake the breasts until they are firm (about 8 minutes, this makes sure the center of the breast is not raw)

Remove from the oven garnish with lemon wedges and serve immediately.

This meal is not very healthy. There are quite a few processed ingredients. The main processed ingredient being the vegetable oil. Not only is vegetable oil extremely processed, but it is being used to fry the chicken. Fried foods tend to hold in all of the fats that are not good for us. Eating this meal every day would most certainly make you fatter.  

This meal is relatively cheap. My family picks up most ingredients from the farmers market so the are all grown locally. The things that we do not buy at the market are the processed ingredients. We but premade breadcrumbs and the vegetable oil from the super market. These ingredients are also fairly cheap, but are not as healthy as some of the alternatives. We could make our own bread crumbs but that's a lot of work on top of the already long prep time of the chicken. and for the oil there isn't really an alternative. We could use a different type of oil but it wouldn't taste the same. Almost all of the ingredients do not travel very far since they are all grown locally.