Baked Chicken Recipes

photo credit: Apreche

If I had to pick my favorite boneless chicken recipe, it would have to be Chicken Parmigiana.  I never knew exactly what the name referred to.  I assumed it either referred to Parma, Italy – where perhaps the dish was created – or to the fact that one of the ingredients is Parmesan cheese.  Well, I found I was wrong on both counts.  The dish was created outside of Italy and the name does not refer to the cheese.  According to author Anna Pomar, the name derives from a Sicilian word – parmiciana.   This refers to the center part of a window shutter where the slats of wood overlap.  It seems that the first “Parmigiana” recipe used eggplant and the slices were placed in the pan overlapping each other.