Aloha, I’m Bobby from Bobby V’s Italian Restaurant and Pizzeria, located in Kapa’a,
Kauai’s east side.
Today we’re going to make one of our most popular dishes, chicken parmesan.
Since the kids are out of school, I’m lucky enough to have my daughter Gianna, who’s
going to help me.
It’s teamwork, our specialty, right?
First of all we have our chicken tenderloins.
Whenever you’re working with chicken, especially raw chicken, what do we wear?
Gloves, yes.
Put it here, and tenderize it.
Use any flat object with weight, we’re going to use a sauté pan.
How does that look, is it ready?
I’m going to give that a little bang, how does that look?
Good.
Badabing.
Now we take the flour, and we have eggs, and last?
Breadcrumbs.
Which one do you want to do?
Eggs.
Okay, I’ll get the flour going.
The reason we do this is because this coats the chicken and keeps the breadcrumb batter
on the chicken, it doesn’t flake off.
There you go.
Good job, get that all covered.
Into there.
Alright, let the egg come off.
You’ve done this before.
I’ve done this lots of times with my daddy.
Okay, good job.
It’s ready for the breadcrumbs.
Use your other hand, your clean hand to put the breadcrumbs on it.
Good job.
One more.
I’ll do the egg on this one, teamwork.
That’s the fun thing about cooking we can do it together.
Most of my cooking is generated from my family, I went to culinary school, and I can say that
it was good, I learned a lot of the business aspect of cooking, but most of the cooking
I do I learned in my family’s kitchen.
Put it there, you’re good to go.
Next we’re going to sauté them in olive oil, give it a really nice taste.
Bring it over here, this is our extra virgin Italian olive oil.
You don’t have to cook it too long.
We tenderized them, made them nice and thin.
They almost melt in your mouth.
We’re there.
Now where’re going to put them on this napkin.
One, that’s get get the excess oil off.
We’re going to pat them dry.
Can you do that?
Are they ready?
They’re ready.
Place them here.
Overlap them a little, be careful because it’s hot.
We’re going to put some sauce on, cover it with some cheese.
Last step in the oven, right?
Yep.
That’s not going to take long, we just want to melt the cheese, and then its going to
be good.
Gotta get the pasta ready, we’re going to drop our pasta.
One thing you don’t want to do is overcook pasta.
Just cook it a little bit.
Shake that water out, plate it here.
Here we go.
I like Pizza too.
Look at that.
Plate it there, and last but not least, put some sauce on the pasta.
And viola, chicken parmesan, just like nona made it.
It’s yummy and good.
During your stay on Kauai, if you're looking for authentic Italian food and traditional
thin crust pizza, Bobby V’s is your place.
Aloha!