Flexible Chicken Success

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 25 mins Cook Time: 20 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 4 -8 chicken cutlets
• 1/4 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 6 -12 ounces mushrooms, sliced
• 1 onion, sliced
• 8 -16 ounces mozzarella cheese, sliced or shredded
• 2 -4 tablespoons butter or 2 -4 tablespoons oil
• 1 teaspoon parsley (optional)
• 1/2 teaspoon seasoning salt (optional)
• 1/2 teaspoon sodium-free seasoning (optional)

Recipe

• 1 pound chicken to even out thickness (can skip this if you hate to do it).
• 2 flour chicken.
• 3 add salt and pepper to taste.
• 4 brown chicken lightly-- don't need to cook all the way.
• 5 put chicken in large casserole or roasting pan in one layer.
• 6 in the same frying pan, melt a little butter or use oil and saute mushrooms until lightly browned. (can skip this step too.)
• 7 place mushrooms on top of chicken.
• 8 melt more butter or oil and saute onion until soft. (this is not in the original but i like onions. leave them out if you don't or they don't like you.)
• 9 place onions on top of mushrooms.
• 10 add some parsley, seasoning salt or no-salt seasoning, if you want.
• 11 cover with cheese.
• 12 original recipe uses portabella mushrooms and fontina cheese i think, but mozzarella is fine. swiss would probably be good too.
• 13 bake for about 20 minutes at 375 degrees or so. longer at a lower temperature or less at higher. basically you want to cook the chicken, melt the cheese and get some juices in the pan.
• 14 essentials are chicken, mushrooms and cheese. this is really good with rice, but noodles might be tasty too.
• 15 i've also made a version using puff pastry which is pretty and delicious but more work.
• 16 another variation i tried used some additional vegetables like peppers, zucchini and tomatoes. it was good, but i like the standard version.