Australian

Chicken Schnitzel

Name: Chicken Schnitzel
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Australian
Ingredients: 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts; 1/2 cup all purpose flour; 2 eggs; 1.5 cups breadcrumbs; 1/3 cup vegetable oil; 1 lemon; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Nathan @nathan_bbq

Chicken Schnitzel is Australian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

30 min Medium

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
1/2 cup all purpose flour
2 eggs
1.5 cups breadcrumbs
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 lemon
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Slice each chicken breast in half horizontally and pound to an even thickness between two sheets of plastic wrap.
Season the chicken with salt and pepper, then coat each piece in flour, dip in beaten egg, and press into the breadcrumbs.
Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
Fry the schnitzels until golden and cooked through, about 3 minutes per side, then drain on paper towel.
Serve hot with lemon wedges.

Watch how to cook Chicken Schnitzel

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

Chicken Schnitzel Recipe | How to Make Chicken Schnitzel Play the video

Serve it with

A Australian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Schnitzel, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The cooked vegetable
- Aussie Corn on the Cob
  
  15 min
What it is eaten with
- Aussie Garlic Bread
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Schnitzel carries gluten and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Chicken Schnitzel
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Aussie Butter Chicken
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Aussie Butter Chicken
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 560 kcal
Protein: 55 g
Carbs: 39 g
Fat: 20 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 690 mg
Saturated fat: 4 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Chicken Schnitzel takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.