Easy Lemon Chicken Recipe
By: Gigi Howe
Total time: 20
Rating: 5.0 Stars based on 2 reviews
With the great deals on chicken breast, especially at ShopRite, I decided its time to share one of my all time favorite recipes. My mother found this recipe and made it for years. I also have made it for years. Everyone has always loved it. It WAS a recipe that I would make for company, but since I’ve given out the recipe to all my family and friends and they make the recipe for themselves, I really can’t serve it to company anymore! I’ll post it here so you can try it for yourself!
Easy Lemon Chicken Recipe
4 chicken breasts
1/4 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
butter, margarine or olive oil
1 cup chicken broth
2 small lemons
With meat mallet pound chicken breast to 1/4– 1/2 inch thickness.
Mix flour, salt & pepper in a large baggy or on wax paper and coat chicken. Reserve remaining flour mixture.
In 12-inch skillet heat 3 tablespoons of butter, margarine or oil (I always have used butter). Cook 3 pieces of chicken at a time until lightly browned on both sides, adding more butter if necessary. Remove chicken pieces to a plate.
Reduce heat to low. Into drippings in skillet, stir reserved flour mixture’ add broth and juice of ½ lemon, stirring to loosen brown bits. Return chicken to skillet. Thinly slice remaining lemons. Top chicken with lemon slices. Cover; simmer 5 minutes or until chicken is fork-tender. Makes 6 servings.
I unfortunately don’t have a photo of this dish, but I happened to find another recipe’s picture that looks similar and that is what is shown above. Its a Rachael Ray recipe for Crispy Crusted Lemon Chicken Cutlets. Her recipe looks good also, it uses rice to coat the chicken. I might try her recipe when I have some leftover rice.
Enjoy and let us know how you like the recipe!
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