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Filetes Empanados (Spanish Breaded Chicken Cutlets)

Name: Filetes Empanados (Spanish Breaded Chicken Cutlets)
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 4 chicken breast cutlets; 1/2 cup all-purpose flour; 2 eggs; 1 cup breadcrumbs; 1/2 cup olive oil; 1 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper; 4 lemon wedges

Javier @javier_v84

Filetes Empanados (Spanish Breaded Chicken Cutlets) is Spanish home cooking, eaten at lunch. 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.

25 min Medium Halal Dairy free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

4 chicken breast cutlets
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
2 eggs
1 cup breadcrumbs
1/2 cup olive oil
1 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper
4 lemon wedges

How to cook it

Pound the chicken cutlets to an even thickness and season both sides with the salt and the black pepper.
Set up three shallow dishes: one with the flour, one with the beaten eggs, and one with the breadcrumbs.
Dredge each cutlet first in the flour, shaking off the excess, then dip it in the egg, and finally press it into the breadcrumbs to coat evenly on both sides.
Heat the olive oil in a wide skillet over medium heat and fry the cutlets for 3 to 4 minutes per side until golden brown and cooked through.
Drain briefly on paper towels and serve hot with the lemon wedges on the side.

Watch how to cook Filetes Empanados (Spanish Breaded Chicken Cutlets)

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Serve it with

A Spanish lunch is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Filetes Empanados (Spanish Breaded Chicken Cutlets), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Something to sip
- Ajoblanco (Chilled Malaga Almond and Garlic Soup)
  
  20 min
The cooked vegetable
- Acelgas Rehogadas (Sauteed Chard with Garlic and Pimenton)
  
  25 min
What it is eaten with
- Arroz Blanco (Plain White Rice)
  
  20 min
Something cool and fresh
- Boquerones en Vinagre (Vinegar-Cured Anchovies)
  
  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. Filetes Empanados (Spanish Breaded Chicken Cutlets) carries gluten and eggs. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Filetes Empanados (Spanish Breaded Chicken Cutlets)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	No
Gluten	Yes	Alubias Blancas con Chorizo (White Beans with Chorizo)
Shellfish	No
Eggs	Yes	Ajoblanco (Chilled Malaga Almond and Garlic Soup)
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: 400 kcal
Protein: 38 g
Carbs: 26 g
Fat: 16 g
Fiber: 1 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 840 mg
Saturated fat: 3 g

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

When to cook it

Filetes Empanados (Spanish Breaded Chicken Cutlets) takes about 25 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at lunch. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.