Sauteed Chicken Breasts With Balsamic Vinegar Pan Sauce
"From Cooking Light. This is good with pasta or rice. I usually like garlic instead of shallots."
- Ready In:
- 23mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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4
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup reduced-sodium chicken broth
- 1⁄2 cup balsamic vinegar
- 2 teaspoons honey
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 (5 ounce) boneless skinless chicken breast halves
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt (optional)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
- 1⁄4 cup flour
- 2 tablespoons shallots, minced
- chopped fresh parsley (recommended) (optional)
directions
- Combine broth, vinegar, and honey in a small bowl.
- Melt butter and heat oil in a large nonstick pan over low heat.
- Place flour in a shallow pan or dish.
- Dredge chicken in flour and shake off excess.
- Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper.
- Increase heat to medium-high; heat for 2 minutes or until butter browns.
- Add chicken to the pan and cook for 4 minutes per side or until golden.
- Remove chicken from pan and keep warm.
- Add shallots and saute 30 seconds.
- Add broth mixture and bring to a boil; cook for 3 minutes or until the liquid is reduced to 1/2 a cup.
- Serve sauce over chicken and garnish with parsley.
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Reviews
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Made this last night and everyone loved it, quick, easy, and very good! I left out the butter and flour, doubled the rest for extra sauce for the rice. Awesome will be making again for sure. -
This is a yummy quick and easy dinner! I used red wine vinegar since I didn't have balsamic (will use next time but, was still good), Served with rice and baby carrots drizzled with pan sauce, Will make again! -
My son could not stop raving about this dish as he ate. Thank you so much for our new favorite. I, too, added salt and pepper and some garlic powder to the flour before dredging the chicken. Since we only cooked one chicken breast, we only made half the sauce recipe. The yield was really minimal, barely enough to coat the chicken pieces. Next time, I would double the sauce. Thank you again for sharing. -
Oh my goodness! This was fantastic! I made tonight for a quick, easy supper, but didn't expect to like it so much! I made a half recipe with one large chicken breast cut in two and let the chicken simmer in the sauce for quite a while. (Didn't brown for too long.) I also sprinkled with salt/pepper/garlic powder mix prior to flouring. Will definitely make it again! -
Excellent! The sauce had a nice sweetness to it that my whole family enjoyed. Thanks for a delicious recipe!
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RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
Vino Girl
United States
My husband and I married straight out of college in July of 1992. I work as the Assistant Manager at a wine shop which allows me to drink on the job! (OK, not that much, but it's still a fun job...) Besides helping customers choose wine they will like (and also help with food and wine pairings for their menus), I also get to help with the catering end of the business, so I get to spend a fair amount of time in the kitchen making fun appetizers and beautiful food displays. I also work part-time at the fromagerie next door. So yeah - that means I eat on the job, too. :^D
We live on several peaceful wooded acres on a cute little river in rural NE Wisconsin, with a cranky old-lady Burmese and whatever stray outdoor cats that have decided to adopt us on any given day. The cute puppy in the picture is Jake, our Elhew-bred English Pointer that we brought home on Easter weekend 2007. I've also got 2 painted turtles named Dennis and Fuzz, and a bunch of fish (koi and goldfish, along with the guppies & swordtails in the turtle tank).
I USUALLY eat and cook healthy, but I rarely pass up dessert, either. I do not eat red meat, and try to limit other animal products, too. I love to bake, although I seem to collect a lot of scone and biscotti recipes which I NEVER get around to making. I bake and eat A LOT of cookies and muffins... I almost always reduce the sugar by 1/4 and use whole wheat pastry flour for at least part of the flour. Those two changes do so much to make recipes healthier without compromising taste. I try to reduce fat whenever I can, too, but while I want to eat healthy, I still want to ENJOY what I eat!!!
I seem to give a lot of 4 and 5 star reviews here - I seem to have a pretty good sense of what I like by looking at a recipe before I try it. Thank you to anyone that tries my recipes in return, or photographs them.
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