Chicken milanese with grapefruit and fennel salad recipe

Milanese is a dish that requires a lot of butter because you need to get the breadcrumbs nice and crispy, and you don’t want the meat to dry out, said chef James Martin. But the end result makes it worth it – especially served up with a zingy salad.

Ingredients (serves 2)

For the chicken:

• 100g plain flour
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 100g panko breadcrumbs
• 2 skinless, boneless, chicken breasts, cut in half horizontally (don’t cut all the way through)
• 125g butter
• few sprigs of tarragon
• sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
• lemon wedges, to serve

For the salad:

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• ½ fennel bulb
• radicchio and little gem leaves
• 1 pink grapefruit, one half segmented, the other half juiced

For the dressing:

• 25ml white wine vinegar
• grapefruit juice, from above
• 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
• 50ml vegetable oil
• few sprigs of tarragon, leaves picked

Method

• Put the flour, beaten egg and breadcrumbs into 3 separate shallow bowls and season the flour with salt and pepper. Dip the chicken first into the flour, then in the egg and then in the breadcrumbs to coat.
• Melt the butter with the tarragon in a frying pan and fry the chicken for about 8 minutes on each side, until cooked through and crispy.
• For the salad, have a bowl of iced water ready. Shave the fennel into the iced water, either using a mandolin or a sharp knife.
• For the dressing, whisk together the ingredients, adding a splash of water if you prefer a thinner dressing.
• Drain the fennel.
• Pile the salad leaves into a serving bowl and top with the shaved fennel and grapefruit segments. Spoon over the dressing.
• Put the fried chicken on serving plates and garnish with lemon wedges. Serve with the dressed salad.

Taken from James Martin’s Saturday Morning: Comforting and Foolproof Recipes for Every Day by James Martin.

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