Parmigiana

From Italian parmigiana

Full definition of parmigiana

Adjective

1. Cooked or served with Parmesan cheese.

From Italian; generalised from the southern Italian dish Parmigiana di melanzane, which is made with eggplant.

Noun

1. (cooking, in combination) A cooking style in which a main ingredient is combined with cheese and coated with tomato sauce before being baked.
• 2007 June, Dining & Entertainment, Orange County Magazine, page 270,Specialties include veal parmigiana, chicken portobello, linguini pescatore, veal marsala, eggplant parmigiana and many others.
• 2009, Diane Phillips, Slow Cooker: The Best Cookbook Ever with More Than 400 Easy-to-Make Recipes, page 486,Traditional chicken Parmigiana with breaded chicken cutlets gets a makeover in the slow cooker. The chicken is stuffed with three cheeses and then set to simmer in an oregano-spiked tomato sauce.----