Chicken Kiev

Name: Chicken Kiev
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 1 h 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 120 g (4 oz) plain flour, seasoned with salt and pepper; 50 g (1¾ oz) chopped fresh parsley; 3 cloves garlic, crushed; 200 g (6½ oz) dried white breadcrumbs, sieved; 4 skinless chicken breasts fillets; 3 eggs, beaten; 150 g (5 oz) unsalted butter; oil, for cooking and deep-frying

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 20

Appears in

Chicken

By Le Cordon Bleu

Published 1997

About

You can shallow-fry or deep-fry your Chicken Kiev to produce a crisp coating for the chicken and garlic butter, which bursts with succulence and flavour as you cut into it.

Ingredients

4 skinless chicken breasts fillets
120 g (4 oz) plain flour, seasoned with salt and

Main course

Method

Remove the thin fillets (tenderloins) from the underside of the chicken breasts and place them on lightly oiled plastic wrap or greaseproof paper. Gently flatten them with a cutlet bat or small heavy-based pan and put in the refrigerator.
To make the garlic butter, soften the butter, then add the garlic, parsley, salt and pepper, and mix well. Spoon the butter