Healthy chicken schnitzel with snow pea salad

This lovely light schnitzel is made with multigrain crumbs, garlic and a little parmesan cheese. Oh, and it’s just lightly sprinkled over and oven baked, not fried.

Ingredients

  • 90g multigrain bread

    about 2 slices

  • 1 clove garlic

    minced

  • 10g parmesan cheese

    grated

  • 1 tsp black pepper

  • 4 chicken breasts

    130g each

  • oil spray

  • 225g snow peas

    trimmed

  • 50g spinach leaves

    chopped

  • 1 tbsp lime juice

    or lemon juice

  • 2 tsp sesame oil

  • 1 tsp olive oil

  • 1 tsp soy sauce

  • 1 tsp sugar

Equipment

  • 1 food processor
  • 1 oven tray
  • 1 baking paper
  • 1 small-medium saucepan
  • 1 jar

Instructions

  1. Place bread, garlic, parmesan and pepper in a food processor and pulse until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
  2. Preheat the oven to 200°c and line an oven tray with baking paper.
  3. Slice each chicken breast in half lengthways to make 2 thin steaks.
  4. Place chicken steaks on oven tray, spray lightly with oil and top generously with bread crumbs.
  5. Spray breadcrumbs lightly with oil and bake in the oven for 8 minutes until chicken is cooked through.
  6. While chicken is cooking, bring a small-medium saucepan of water to a boil, add snow peas for 2 minutes and drain.
  7. Refresh peas in icy cold water, drain and pat dry. Toss snow peas with spinach.
  8. Add lime juice, sesame oil, olive oil, soy sauce and sugar in a jar and give a good shake.
  9. Pour dressing over salad.
  10. Serve salad with schnitzel and a lemon wedge if you like.

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