Traditionally, Chicken Parmesan is a chicken breast cutlet, breaded, and then topped with marinara sauce and mozzarella cheese. So, to keep this Chicken Parmesan Pasta's flavors as close to traditional chicken parmesan's flavors, go with white meat chicken. Not only that, but it's a lot easier to cut up chicken breast and cook it in minutes over the stove. While we're on the topic of the chicken, you can use either fresh or frozen (but thawed) chicken breast in this recipe. We wrote fresh in the ingredient list because fresh is a little bit easier because you don't have to remember to take it out to defrost. But, if you only have frozen chicken, that works just fine. As long as it's thawed. If you wanted to use dark meat chicken for this, you could, but I wouldn't recommend it. You would spend so much time cutting the chicken off the bone that this just wouldn't be the easy weeknight dinner that it actually is.