if I go to a nice Italian restaurant, I get nice olive oil and bread for dipping before my grilled chicken arrives. The Mediterranean diet is good. But if I coat chicken in bread crumbs and fry it in olive, that’s bad. Why?

Question

I’m consuming the exact same ingredients – olive oil, bread, and chicken. But fir some reason, one style is healthy and the other is not. What makes it unhealthy? Why aren’t both methods “Mediterranean”?

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Answer 1

You don’t fry things in olive oil for two reasons: 1 it has a low temperature “smoke” point, I don’t know its translation in english, but basically the lower the smoke temperature, the bad for the body. Reason 2 it tastes horrible. (And reason 1 comma2 you have to clean a real mess because the oil splashed everywhere).
Said this, there is “cotoletta alla milanese” that is breaded and fried meat (with variation on the meat source: pig, cow, turkey, chicken, the original is made with calf), but it’s fried in sunflower oil or similar.