Skillet Lemon Chicken
From valinkenmore 15 years ago
- 15 minutes to make
- Serves 4
This is an easy and elegant presentation of Lemon Chicken Cutlets. Serve this with rice and a veggie and you've got a meal in minutes. Hope you enjoy!
Ingredients
- 1 medium lemon shopping list
- 2 teaspoons parsley flakes shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon salt shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper shopping list
- 3 tablespoon all-purpose flour shopping list
- 2 teaspoon all-purpose flour shopping list
- 4 large (about 1 1/2 pounds) skinless, boneless chicken-breast halves shopping list
- 1 tablespoon olive or salad oil shopping list
- 2 cloves garlic, minced fine shopping list
- 2/3 cup chicken broth shopping list
- lemon slices, for garnish shopping list
How to make it
- From lemon, grate 1 teaspoon peel; squeeze 2 tablespoons juice.
- On sheet of waxed paper, mix grated lemon peel, parsley flakes, salt, pepper, and 1 tablespoon flour. Use to coat chicken-breast halves.
- In 12-inch skillet over medium heat, in hot olive or salad oil, cook chicken breasts until tender and golden brown on both sides and juices run clear when chicken is pierced with a knife, turning chicken once, after about 7 minutes. Cook for a total of about 15 minutes.Remove chicken to warm platter.
- In 1-cup measuring cup, with fork, mix chicken broth, lemon juice, garlic and 1 teaspoon flour until smooth. Pour chicken-broth mixture into drippings in skillet. Over high heat, heat to boiling; boil 1 minute. Spoon sauce over chicken. Garnish with lemon slices and parsley sprigs.
The Rating
Reviewed by 11 people-
Val, thank you very much for this lovely recipe! It's very close to the chicken we love from our favorite Greek restaurant (chicken lemonado). I left the parsley out until garnishing as my guy is iffy about it at times. My drippings got rather browne...more
DetroitTokyo
in Detroit loved it
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We had this tonight and it was awesome! One of those WOW factor recipes. Big big hit. I juiced the entire lemon, so I added a little more parsley to the sauce. I also put the chicken back in the sauce with the lid on while I mashed my taters, and...more
sparow64
in Sweetwater loved it
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I also browned my chicken in just a drizzle of EVOO with a pad of margarine.
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in Sweetwater loved it
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