Keto Chicken Parmesan – Easy Weeknight Low Carb Dinner

This keto chicken parmesan dinner is easy, delicious and perfect for a keto weeknight dinner. My chicken parmesan recipe uses a yummy gluten free breading that does not use pork rinds. You only need a few ingredients to make it and each serving has just 4.3g net carbs.

You might also like this keto stuffed pizza burgers recipe!

I’ve been wanting to make keto chicken parmesan for a long time. It’s a dish my hubby loves … well all of us love it so I finally gave it try.

It was really good and I will be definitely be making it more regularly because it was also easy. The breading is gluten free and with a lower carb sauce you can really keep the carbs down. So not only is this easy to make with just a few ingredients, it also only has 4.3g net carbs.

Ingredients I Used

As I mentioned above, you don’t need many ingredients. All you need to make this recipe is:

• skinless, boneless chicken breast
• almond flour
• grated parmesan
• beaten egg
• oil
• low carb marinara
• provolone or mozzarella cheese

By the way, I bought all of these simple ingredients at Aldi.

The Keto Breading Recipe

While sometimes I use pork rinds to make a keto breading, tooday I used a gluten free breading which is simply almond flour and grated Parmesan.  

If you want to spice it up even more you can add some Italian seasoning, garlic powder, onion powder or even paprika to the breading. But honestly it doesn’t need it.

I use this breading often like with my keto city chicken recipe. It’s great for breading chicken,  pork chops, zucchini, etc. 

I wanted to mention that I browned these cutlets in red palm oil. I talk about it in this roasted vegetable post. It’s great because it has a high burning point and gives a butter taste and rich color for these cutlets.

You could use olive oil or some other oil instead, but I really like the palm oil.  You can find many of these products on my Amazon page if you are interested.

Let’s Make This Keto
Chicken Parmesan Recipe

STEP 1: First mix the almond flour and grated Parmesan cheese in a large shallow bowl and place the beaten egg in another bowl. 

STEP 2: Take one of the boneless, skinless chicken breasts and sliced them in half like you would a bagel. Then pound them a bit thinner with a meat mallet. The chicken cutlet will cook faster when thin and I think it just tastes better.

STEP 3: Once you have pounded the cutlets, sprinkle some salt and black pepper on top.

STEP 4: To bread them, just dip into the egg mixture and then dredge in the flour mixture.

STEP 5: Next heat up a large saue pan to medium high heat. Fry the chicken breast cutlets with red palm oil until they are golden brown. Again you can use regular oil if you wish. I like the color and taste of the red palm.  

STEP 6: Then place the cutlets in a casserole dish, add a bit of sauce on top and then provolone cheese. You can also use mozzarella cheese if you want.

STEP 7: Bake the chicken in the oven for 15 minutes until the chicken is cooked through. Timing will depend on the thickness of your chicken. It should only take 15 minutes if your cutlets are thin.

Note if you want the cheese brown and bubbly, stick it under the broiler for a few minutes.

A Note About The Marinara Sauce

Tomato sauce can have a lot of added sugar and therefore have more carbs. I like Aldi’s Specialty Selects Marinara sauce as it has 5g net carbs per half cup and it’s easy for me to get. I also like Rao’s marinara sauce but I have to buy that online.

If you have a lower carb pasta sauce that you like, use that. Here is some other keto condiments I’ve found on Amazon.

What To Serve With This Dish

I usually serve this keto main dish as is with a green vegetable and salad. However it would also be delicious with zucchini noodles, spaghetti squash noodles or cauliflower rice. 

You could also serve this with regular pasta if you are not on a keto diet. 

I hope you love this keto friendly dinner as much as we did!

The nutritional information for 1 serving is:
488 cals / 29g fat / 6.0g carbs / 1.7g fiber / 51.4g protein = 4.3g net carbs

You might also like my friend Alika’s low carb chicken parmesan recipe!