Baked Chicken Breasts with Lime

Name: Baked Chicken Breasts with Lime
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 25 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 large clove of garlic, crushed; 50 g (2 oz) butter; 25 g (1 oz) fresh breadcrumbs; 4 chicken boned breasts, skinned; 25 g (1 oz) butter, melted, plus extra for greasing; grated zest of 1 lime; 2 tablespoons very finely chopped fresh parsley; 20 g (¾ oz) freshly grated parmesan cheese; juice of 1 lime

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium
Ready in
35 min

Appears in

American Baking

By Patricia Lousada

Published 1986

About

Chicken breasts are coated with breadcrumbs and parmesan cheese and baked with a lime garlic butter. It is simple and practical; the results are succulent and are especially good served with broccoli.

Ingredients

4 chicken boned breasts, skinned
25 g (1 oz) fresh breadcrumbs

Americas
United States
Main course

Method

Preheat the oven. Trim off any fat from the chicken breasts, pat them dry and season them with salt and pepper. Mix the breadcrumbs, cheese, parsley and lime zest with some salt and pepper. Dip the chicken pieces in the melted butter and then roll them in the breadcrumb mixture. Place the breasts in a small shallow greased oven dish so that they fit snugly in one layer and put the dish in the p