How To Make Creamy Lemon Chicken Francese
Make your next dinner with this upgraded recipe for chicken francese. Tender chicken breasts are cooked in a creamy lemon, parmesan, and garlic sauce.
Serves:
Ingredients
- 2large chicken breasts,boneless and skinless, cut in half horizontally to make 4 fillets
- 2large eggs
- ¼cupParmesan cheese,finely grated
- 2tbsplemon juice,freshly squeezed
- ¼cupflour
- 2tbspunsalted butter
- 4tbspolive oil
- 8garlic cloves,crushed
- ½cupdry white wine,optional
- ¾cupchicken broth
- 1cuphalf and half,or heavy cream or thickened cream
- ½tspblack pepper,cracked
- ½tspsalt,add more to suit your tastes
- ¼cupfresh parsley,chopped
- ½lemon,juiced
- 2tspparsley,extra, to garnish
Instructions
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Pound each fillet to ½-inch thick, if needed.
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Beat eggs, parmesan cheese, 2 tablespoons of lemon juice, a pinch of salt and some black pepper in a shallow bowl.
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To another shallow bowl, add the flour and season with salt and pepper. Mix with hands.
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Heat the oil and butter in a skillet or nonstick pan over medium-high heat. When the oil/butter is hot enough for frying, dredge the fillets in the flour first, coating completely, then coat in the egg wash.
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Allow any excess egg mixture to drip off, then fry fillets in batches of two if needed for about 4 minutes each side until nice and golden brown. Place each cooked fillet on a paper towel lined plate.
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To the same frying pan, add the crushed garlic, and cook for one minute until fragrant. Add in the white wine, chicken broth and parsley. Allow to cook for about 5 minutes on high heat to reduce down, while swirling the pan occasionally.
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Reduce heat and add the cream. Simmer on low until slightly thickened. Taste test and season with salt and pepper, as desired.
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Stir in the juice of half a lemon, and return the chicken to the sauce to heat through on low heat for 2 minutes.
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Serve the chicken and sauce together over rice or pasta and vegetables, if desired. Garnish with extra parsley.
Nutrition
- Calories: 592.08kcal
- Fat: 41.79g
- Saturated Fat: 15.22g
- Trans Fat: 0.36g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 19.40g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 4.72g
- Carbohydrates: 15.09g
- Fiber: 0.80g
- Sugar: 4.26g
- Protein: 33.61g
- Cholesterol: 207.92mg
- Sodium: 618.18mg
- Calcium: 227.56mg
- Potassium: 510.31mg
- Iron: 2.16mg
- Vitamin A: 211.63µg
- Vitamin C: 15.12mg
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