# Crispy Chicken Schnitzel with Creamed Spinach

A perfect combination of textures and flavors, this dish features crispy chicken schnitzel served with rich creamed spinach.

- Cuisine: German
- Category: Snack
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- 1 chicken breast
- flour
- salt
- 1 egg
- breadcrumbs
- parmesan
- 1 shallot
- 1 garlic clove
- olive oil
- butter
- 1 bag spinach
- nutmeg
- Dijon
- heavy cream
- oil
- chips
- 1 wedge lemon

## Instructions

1. Start by butterflying a chicken breast.
2. Bash the chicken breast until it's about half a centimeter thin.
3. Make a breading station with flour seasoned with salt, an egg seasoned with salt and whisked, and breadcrumbs seasoned with parmesan and salt.
4. Dip the chicken in the flour, then the egg, then the breadcrumb mixture.
5. Roll out the breaded chicken to make it as thin as possible.
6. Chop one shallot and one garlic clove.
7. Heat up a pan with some olive oil and butter.
8. Cook down the shallot and garlic in the pan.
9. Wilt down a bag of spinach, one handful at a time, into the pan.
10. Roughly snip the spinach with some scissors.
11. Add parmesan, nutmeg, a little bit of Dijon, and some heavy cream to the spinach.
12. Mix the creamed spinach together and set it aside.
13. For the schnitzel, add oil to a pan.
14. Cook the schnitzel on both sides until golden brown and crispy all over.
15. Serve the schnitzel on a plate with some chips, a generous amount of the creamed spinach, and a wedge of lemon.

## Equipment

- pan
- scissors

## Tips

- Butterfly a chicken breast and bash it to about half a centimeter thin.
- Season flour with salt.
- Season egg with salt and whisk it.
- Season breadcrumbs with parmesan and salt.
- Dip chicken in flour, then egg, then breadcrumb mixture, and roll it out to make it as thin as possible.
- Cook shallot and garlic before wilting spinach.
- Roughly snip spinach with scissors.
- For superior crunch and crisp, use fine breadcrumbs and shake off excess flour before dipping in egg.
- Frying in schmalz (butter, pork, beef fat) offers better taste and higher smoke point for batch frying.

## Source

- Original video: https://youtu.be/hfSvXmFg2gU?si=fFiKywz7hKPP7AXo
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/377cb448-8816-4134-81b1-ef9e70148cfb
- Extracted: 2026-02-02

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