Chicken Parmesan Roll-Ups
These Chicken Parmesan Roll-Ups are an easy dinner recipe that your whole family will love. It’s like chicken parmesan but rolled up with mozzarella, basil, and tomatoes.
You can totally customize these Chicken Parmesan Roll-Ups. Use marinara sauce instead of diced tomatoes for a quicker version of the recipe. These Chicken Parmesan Roll-Ups were originally posted in May 2013.
CHICKEN PARMESAN ROLL-UPS
Every night as I crawl into bed I either verbally or mentally utter the words, “I…love…my…bed.”
I do. It’s a little piece of heaven. It’s big enough that we can both sleep in an ‘X’ shape without running into each other or we can meet in the middle to snuggle if we want.
Add just washed sheets dried with two Bounce dryer sheets to the equation and we have reached one of life’s greatest pleasures.
One of our first purchases when we moved to Florida was a mattress, purely out of necessity so that we weren’t sleeping on the floor. We got a mattress on clearance and it was fine but nothing spectacular.
We found out that after a month or so our bodies had created two valleys in the pillow top with a big mountain in the middle.
The catch about beds is that you don’t really know how you’ll like them until you’ve spent the night sleeping in it and by then you’re a little committed to the purchase.
A while later our friends happened to be moving and didn’t want to haul their brand new bed across the country so we inherited their super nice bed and put it in our guest bedroom.
From then on, every guest that stayed with us kept gushing about how amazing the bed was.
I didn’t know if they were being polite or if any bed felt great after a long flight to the east coast. We finally felt like we were missing out on something so we switched out our own bed for the guest bed to see what all of the fuss was about.
It was fabulous. Every time we go on vacation we come back and worship our own bed. Don’t ask me what brand it is because I can’t lift it to see (I tried).
Here’s a another piece of heaven all rolled up into these Chicken Parmesan Roll-ups. We make this Easy Baked Chicken Parmesan at least once a week. This version is a little more flavor intensified!
You can use chicken cutlets from your grocery store which are already thin flat pieces of meat or just cut a regular chicken breast lengthwise down the middle to create thin pieces of chicken.
These chicken breasts were from Costco and extremely thick so depending on the size you may need to pound them thinner even after cutting them in half.
The best part about this chicken is that instead of just having that flavorful cheese on top we’re going to roll it in the middle too.
Not hard at all.
Place them seamside down in a baking dish and top with your tomato mixture. I like that you use canned tomatoes here because I don’t always have fresh on hand.
You can also skip the tomatoes and use marinara sauce. My littles prefer the marinara sauce version but us adults like the tomato version.
Top with your panko breadcrumb mixture. This makes the dish.
If you’re breadcrumbs start to get too brown for your liking, cover the whole dish with foil for the remainder of the cooking time.
There’s nothing like biting into that crunchy topping!
If you love these Chicken Parmesan Roll-Ups, you’ll love these chicken recipes:
Chicken Parmesan Meatball Sliders
Chicken Parmesan Roll-Ups
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 onion, chopped fine
- 6 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 (14.5-ounce) can Italian style diced tomatoes (like Hunt's brand)
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh basil
- 1 1/2 cups shredded mozzarella cheese
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan cheese
- 6 thin-cut, boneless, skinless chicken cutlets, about 1 1/4 pounds (or slice regular chicken breasts in half lengthwise to create your own cutlets)
- Salt and pepper
- 1/2 cup Italian seasoned panko bread crumbs
Instructions
- Adjust oven rack to upper-middle position and heat oven to 475 degrees. Heat 2 tablespoons oil in medium saucepan over medium heat. Add onion and cook until softened, about 3 minutes. Stir in garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add tomatoes and simmer until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes. Take mixture off the heat and stir in half of basil. Transfer half of sauce to 8-inch square baking dish or other baking dish (size doesn't really matter here).
- Combine mozzarella and Parmesan in medium bowl; reserve ½ cup of the mixture. Add remaining basil to remaining cheese. Pat cutlets dry with paper towels and season with salt and pepper. Top cutlets with basil-cheese mixture, leaving 1-inch border at bottom of cutlets. Roll up tightly and arrange, seam side down, in prepared baking dish.
- Toss bread crumbs with remaining oil in small bowl. Top chicken with reserved cheese, remaining sauce, and bread-crumb mixture. Bake until chicken is cooked through and crumbs are golden, 15 to 20 minutes. Depending on the thickness of your chicken breasts you may have to cook them longer. I had to cook mine for about 10 minutes longer. If your breadcrumbs get too brown for your liking after about 15 minutes of cooking cover with foil for the remaining baking time. Serve.
Notes
Delicious looking recipe, very inspired!! Have bookmarked many recipes on your blog to try out this week, thank you!:)x
You’re welcome Cara. Enjoy!
This look really really nice!
This was perfect! We both loved them! Thanks so much 🙂
I just made this dish and I had to stop in the middle of eating to tell you how amazing it is!!! I used roasted garlic diced tomatomes and added a bit less minced garlic but otherwise I did everything exactly the same. I think this is my new favorite dish!! Thanks for posting!
Amanda,
Good to hear!
Hi! A messg from Singapore… I made this for lunch as a treat for my son who said it was fabulous!! And this was truly so easy to mk.. Thanks a ton for sharing this…
This looks really good and will make this tonight for dinner! 🙂 I just have one question though, is the cooking temperature really 475 degrees? That seems pretty hot so I was just wondering if it was a typo and supposed to be 375?
No it’s definitely 475. Because it cooks for a short amount of time it needs to be that high.
Do you think you can make these up ahead of time, put them in the fridge and then bake?
Sure. I think that would work great.
This recipe is amazing! My husband loved it and it was SO easy!
I made these tonight for a birthday dinner party. Everyone loved them! I rolled them in a flour/egg/bread crumb mixture and lightly pan fried them before putting them in the oven. Was delish as I’m sure none breaded would be as well. Kudos for a great twist with an old recipe!
This looks SO good! Do you think it would work freezing them and defrosting the day before cooking?
Yes, I think that would work great!
Absoulutly love these!!
Those look so good! What a great take on chicken parmesan!
Thanks Kevin!
I’d totally pound that baby.
I made these roll-ups tonight and they were delicious! The chicken was so tender and it was cheesy and so flavorful. And, I had no expectations of my kids even trying it much less liking it (even though I still put some on their plates) but they both liked it. I have yet to make a recipe from your site and not like it. Thanks for all the great recipes!
We adore our mattress too! Some days I am so tired I dream about it during the day! Nothing like a good mattress! This recipe sounds amazing! One I’m sure my family would love!
These looks really delicious – I had something similar at a wedding once but these look so much tastier!
About the bed … OMG! … I do the same thing, say I love my bed every night when I fall into it. It feels like I’ve gone to heaven. About five years ago we bought a king-sized latex foam bed and it is amazing. We call it our magic-healing bed because if we go to bed and have any aches or pains, it is all better when we wake up. We have a family member who house-sits for us when we go out of town and he begs to come so he can sleep in our bed.
Thanks for the yummy looking recipe by the way.
You had me hooked when you started talking about your amazing bed. We’re definitely in the market for a new bed; I just can’t decide what I want. Besides room. We really need more more room!!
….the roll ups also look amazing – new fan here!
I’ll have my husband lift the mattress up so I can see what brand it is…
Yes! I’d like to know too…will be in the market soon for a new mattress!
Those look so delish!! I will definitely give them a try!!
We made this tonight. It was great. Thanks!
Okay… this was a recipe I found yesterday and had all the ingredients on hand for. It. Was. Fabulous! Thank you for sharing! (we have a new bed too, and I kinda love it. 13 years marriage, and we finally have a pretty bed with a frame – and a nice mattress)
These look and sound amazing.
I adore chicken parmesan and these rolls look amazing!
A good bed is truly a must! I remember coming home after having my first child and I wanted to kiss my bed I was so happy to crawl into it. These Roll-Ups look amazing!
These looks awesome!!
I can’t wait until we get a new bed – ours isn’t terrible but I want a bed that feels like heaven!
Love these roll-ups…. I am all about the breadcrumb topping!!
Seriously, nothing beats a great bed. I think sinking into bed after a meal like this is even better.
I made these tonight and both of my kids loved them! Thanks so much!
These look fantastically easy and delicious! Perfect!
Smart move on switching beds! 🙂 Yummy recipe, thank you!