If you have ever watched the show, the Sopranos, you will know that a big part of the story line often involves eating. Sometimes it’s a family meal, sometimes its just the crew getting together to eat, or even just eating cold cuts right out of the fridge. So I had to try my hand at some of these recipes.
It sounds strange, but I have always been interested in this part of the show, as they are always eating authentic versions of Italian foods. The kind that you never really hear about when you grow up on the other side of the world.

One of my favorites, is the huge variety of Sandwiches that they are regularly eating. Sometimes it’s a Eggplant parm, sometimes it’s the classic Gabagool and then there is the Italian Chicken Cutlet.

For me at least, one of the major appealing elements of Italian cusisine is the simplicity of it. It really centers around simple ingredients done well and as is often a theme in my recipes, this is something which really appeals to me personally. In most Italian foods, the emphasis is placed on the quality of the individual ingredient, rather than the buckets of spices and herbs which can be added to it. That’s why for this sandwich, I tried to keep it fairly simple-The only major deviation from tradition being the smoking of the chicken, before deep frying it.

An Italian Chicken cutlet is a simple, thin cut of chicken breast, breaded and deep fried. Usually the cutlet is served with red sauce on a sandwich and some other simple ingredients. For this recipe, I switched things up a bit by smoking the breast prior to deep frying and by replacing the familiar red sauce with a ketchup based barbecue sauce.

Feel free to amplify this sandwich any way you like. Add the ingredients that stand out to you and make it your own, but I suggest trying to keep an eye on the traditional aspects of it.