Weight Watchers Melt in Your Mouth Chicken (Parmesan Chicken) (2024)

FAQs

How is chicken 0 points on Weight Watchers? ›

Poultry is included as a ZeroPoint food group because it's an excellent source of lean protein and is nutrient-dense, providing key vitamins and minerals.

Mayonnaise makes chicken moist and flavorful

Containing eggs and oil, which are fatty ingredients, mayonnaise helps add a bit of extra fat to the meat, which is mostly cooked off during the process. Moreover, mayonnaise forms a protective barrier that keeps all those tasty juices inside the chicken.

Chicken is one of our members' top tracked foods and it's easy to see why—white meat poultry is delicious, satisfying, and has less cholesterol and saturated fat than meats like beef, pork, and lamb. With chicken on your ZeroPoint™ foods list, you may be wondering if something like deli meat is too.

This system helps you choose more nutritious foods, but your body doesn't work off of points, it works off of calories. For example, if you've met your points budget for the day, but still feel hungry you're technically allowed to eat as many zero-point foods as you want.

That's right – you can eat as much as you want and not track a point! Weight Watchers purposefully makes a ton of foods zero points – and for good reason: it's fruits and vegetables! Specifically non-starchy vegetables.

Brines and marinades help tenderize the meat by bringing more moisture in the protein. With that extra moisture, you lose less when you cook. The simplest way to do this is with a dry brine — unwrap the chicken breasts, salt them on both sides and let them sit in the fridge for at least an hour.

We recommend marinating your chicken in buttermilk or yogurt overnight, but if it's urgent, then an hour will do. However, the texture of the chicken won't be as even as chicken marinated overnight.

You can use beaten eggs, buttermilk, or even a mixture of olive oil and Dijon mustard as a coating for the chicken thighs instead of mayo. These alternatives will help the breading stick to the chicken and add flavor without using mayo.

If I remove the skin from rotisserie chicken breast, is it a ZeroPoint food? Yes, as long as you're eating just the breast meat.

How many points is a baked potato on Weight Watchers? ›

Load up a baked potato and dig into a hearty, healthy meal. Start with a small baked potato (4 SmartPoints value), then load it up with one of these 0 SmartPoints value toppings, and dig into a hearty, healthy meal.

Rao's Marinara Sauce: Rao's is a popular brand known for its high-quality marinara sauce. It is often recommended for chicken parmesan recipes due to its rich flavor and clean ingredients. You can find it at most grocery stores, and Costco often offers a good deal on a two-pack [1].

Overcooking might play a role in your chicken's tire-like texture. Leaving chicken in a pan, oven, or grill for just a little too long can suck the moisture right out and leave you with a dry, rubbery bird. Without moisture, the protein fibers in the chicken become elastic.

Always dip your chicken in beaten egg before coating

Dipping your chicken in egg helps the breadcrumbs, or whatever coating you use, adhere evenly to the outside of the cutlet. You should start with a thin layer of flour, which gives the egg a better surface to cling to, then the egg, then the coating.

Your list of ZeroPoint foods includes culinary staples like chicken breast, eggs, non-starchy veggies, beans, and more. These foods were chosen because they help form the foundation of healthy eating patterns. Loading your plate with these ingredients isn't just good for your body—it's great for weight loss.

All poultry & seafood are fresh (raw or cooked), frozen, or canned in 0 SmartPoints value sauces or spices, without added oil.

It's no surprise to many that fish and shellfish are zero points on Weight Watchers. Fish are nutritional powerhouses full of lean protein, healthy fats and carry a boat load of other vitamins and nutrients. PLUS they've been found to reduce the risk of major depression.