Chicken Milanese

Preparing a delicious and crispy chicken Milanese should be, without a doubt, on your list of easy recipes that will make your day.

The reason is simple: they are very simple to make, and also have a perfect flavor and texture for all palates.

Although this isn’t everything; we can cook it for any occasion, even for a special day and pair it with anything we desire and in this way it’s a very versatile recipe and combines well with everything.

The chicken Milanese recipe doesn’t have a well-defined origin story, nevertheless a lot of literature states that its name was first heard in the Italian city of Milan.

How to make crispy Chicken Milanese?

To make perfect Chicken Milanese all you need is to keep in mind the key principle for this preparation and you’ll see that it is just as simple as a fillet of breaded chicken passed through eggs.

Simple, right? But the thing that most people forget is that in order to get a perfect result is to keep in mind what type of fillet to use, if it is better to use breadcrumbs or flour, as well as the adequate temperature for when you cook it and other little extra tricks to give it flavor.

Let’s begin with the quality and cut of the chicken fillet to make our Milanese; for this, you can use whatever cut as long as you get a thin fillet, although the most recommendable would be to use the breast.

The next thing to think about is the mixture of eggs to create the flavor; in order to enhance the flavor, you can add a dash of beer or Coca-Cola, although it’s perfectly fine if you don’t.

On the other hand, we have the uncertainty of whether to use breadcrumbs or flour and the good news is that both are acceptable.

Although personally, we lean more toward using breadcrumbs since they make the Milanese crunchier.

But don’t feel bad because you can do it with both. What do we mean? Well, the technique to bread the chicken is key and it always has to be done twice so that way it holds well, thus we can first use flour and then breadcrumbs to make it even crunchier.

If you do it just how we will explain to you below in our step-by-step guide you will surely make the best Chicken Milanese you have ever tasted.

Chicken Milanese Variants

The most popular variation o this recipe is the Neapolitan Chicken Milanese which you can prepare just as well to enjoy with a slightly different touch on another occasion.

This version consists of simply adding tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese on top while it is already cooked to later put in the oven for a few minutes until the cheese melts.

Other known variants are Swiss Chicken Milanese, which is accompanied by white sauce, cheese, black pepper and even some Oregano. Nonetheless, this last recipe is generally prepared using beef.