Melt in Your Mouth Lemon Chicken

Slatts's Note:

If you like lemon chicken this is heavenly. The recipe comes from Susan Branch's Heart of the Home cookbook. It is simple and has only a few ingredients. The results are soooooooo goooooooooooood and nice enough for a special occasion.

• Total Time: 20 mins
• Prep Time: 10 mins
• Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients:

Servings: 6

For chicken

• 3 whole boneless skinless chicken breasts, halved
• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/3 cup butter
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• salt and pepper

For sauce

• 4 tablespoons butter
• 4 tablespoons parsley, finely chopped
• 1 lemon

Directions:

1. Dry chicken and pound out with a mallet until evenly flat. Coat with flour.
2. Melt butter and olive oil in a large skillet over meduim high heat.
3. Cook chicken breast for approximately 3 minutes on each side or until browned and cooked through.
4. Remove chicken from skillet and season with salt and pepper. Keep warm in oven while you prepare sauce.
5. Add remaining butter to skillet to melt while scrapping up brown bits from the bottom.
6. Remove from heat and add parsley and juice from 1/2 a lemon. Cut other 1/2 of the lemon into thin slices to use as a garnish.
7. Pour hot sauce over chicken and serve.

Reviews

[mickeydownunder]

Higher than 5 stars this is for me! LOVE the simplicity! Very versatile too! Can add spinach, roasted capsicum, capers, TRUE! To enhance presentation, I cut breasts in half horizontally, Then I cut them vertically, Then cut each piece into three! Made cooking the pieces even easier and it worked for me! THANKS!

[Firehousecook AKA Cap'n Jack]

We just had this and it was a very good Supper. Here is a tip for Chef 1292784. Growing up in a time LOOOOOOOOOOOng before you were hatched (the depression of the 1930's) we learned to conserve. When flouring anything. instead of dumping a lot of flour in a dish just sprinkle it on the meat and add the herbs etc. This should prevent any thoughts about waiste. My flour, etc. drawer is just to the right of my working counter. When my Wife see's that dreawer out she backs off. :O) Cap'n Jack Good luck and Happy Dinning. Because food should not only be good it should be FUN.

[ryansmommy35]

My husband gives this a 10 out of 10. I thought it was great too...I especially love how quick and easy it was.