1 Prepare your crushed tomatoes.
Heat your olive oil in a small saucepan, then add the chopped shallot, garlic, thyme flower and bay leaf, let sweat covered for 5 minutes, then add the crushed tomatoes, salt and pepper, add your sugar cube* then let cook over very low heat for 20 minutes.
2 Meanwhile, prepare your cutlets
Using a flat knife (mallet) passed under cold water, pound your cutlets so they become thinner (you can ask your butcher), salt and pepper them and reserve them in the fridge.
3 Prepare your elements for breading
a) First, remove the crust from the sandwich bread then pass the crumb through a sieve (strainer), add the parmesan and spread on a small plate.
b) Break the eggs into a small bowl, salt and pepper, add your 3 cl of oil and beat like an omelet (this preparation is called in cooking: an egg wash) then put it in a small plate.
c) Finally, pour your flour into another small plate.
Then bread the cutlets, first pass them through the flour, then in the eggs (egg wash) and finally in the parmesan breading then reserve them in the fridge.
4 Cooking of the cutlets.
In a large pan, heat the butter with a drop of oil, then when it turns hazelnut color, cook your cutlets over constant heat, but not too high, after
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