Recipe: The Chicken Cutlet Sandwich (via @DinnerLoveStory)

Jerry’s Kitchen customers love our cutlet sandwiches, especially our Crispy Chicken Sandwich with homemade Maple-Dijon sauce, gooey cheddar, and crispy bacon.  Here’s a recipe for a crispy chicken cutlet sandwich “Italian Style” you can make at home.

Jerry’s Kitchen Tip: Experiment with different dry spices and types of breadcrumbs to create your “signature” cutlet dredge.

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I know we’re all in end-of-summer mode, but for a minute I need to take you back to an early June day, specifically Father’s Day, which up here in the Northeast was a stunner of a Sunday. Clear skies, low 70s, light breeze. Andy was out running errands when the girls and I took stock of the gift loot — a few homemade cards, an iced coffee, uh, not much more than that — and decided we probably needed to up our game a bit in appreciation for the lone man of the house, maybe the only male in the world who knows all the word’s to The Cup Song.

 
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As usual, Abby came up with the plan. “We’ll have a picnic at the Waterfront park and we’ll get chicken cutlet sandwiches from Scappy’s.”

Scappy’s a nickname for the local Italian deli — the place where the workers say “proszhu” and “mooz-a-rell,” the place where a dozen construction trucks and vans are jamming up the sidewalks outside, where men in paint-splattered cargo pants unwrap foiled-sandwiches the size of their forearms. Inside, on a dry-erase board near the Wise potato chips display, their “Famous chicken cutlet sandwich” is touted. “See?” said Abby. “He’ll love them.” She had recently been granted the right to walk into town with friends and without a parent. It appeared a lot of those walks had come right through this deli.

We piled our loot into the trunk on top of the picnic blankets and texted Andy: Meet us at the park!

Find the recipe here.