Baked Chicken Breasts with 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

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