Favorite Chicken Dish

I love recipes that have 5 ingredients or less and take minimal time. Especially those long days when you're tempted just to hit the closest drive through on the way home and kids are screaming, tired and unhappy.

One item that is easy to cook with is boneless, skinless, chicken breasts - great source of protein with minimal fat content and goes so well in many dishes.  

Here is my new favorite chicken recipe - Parmesan Crusted Chicken by Best Foods (www.bestfoods.com). This recipe calls for 4 items - mayonnaise, parmesan cheese, chicken breasts and bread crumbs. 

INGREDIENTS

• 1/2 cup Hellmann's® or Best Foods® Real Mayonnaise
• 1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
• 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves (about 1-1/4 lbs.)
• 4 tsp. Italian seasoned dry bread crumbs

DIRECTIONS

1. Preheat oven to 425°.
2. Combine Hellmann's® or Best Foods® Real Mayonnaise with cheese in medium bowl. Arrange chicken on baking sheet. Evenly top with mayonnaise mixture, then sprinkle with bread crumbs.
3. Bake 20 minutes or until chicken is thoroughly cooked.

• Cost per recipe*: $7.16      Cost per serving*: $1.79  
•  *Based on average retail prices at national supermarkets.  

Lower-fat options - 

• For mayonnaise try light, low-fat or reduced fat mayonnaise or try lo-fat sour cream
• For bread crumbsTry whole wheat bread, toasted, and smashed with a rolling pin or meat pounder

Serve with a fruit, non-starchy vegetable and starch - 

• Slice seasonal fruit such as strawberries, mango, honeydew, oranges, pineapple or any other
• Add some color to your plate with non-starchy vegetables such as broccoli, carrots, green beans, bell peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, yellow squash, brussels sprouts, cucumbers, spinach, etc. 
• Cooked rice or pasta - try brown rice or quinoa for a healthier option