Chicken Breast Fillets with Lemon

Name: Chicken Breast Fillets with Lemon (Petti di Polio al Limone)
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4 as a main course or 6 as part of a multicourse Italian meal
Cuisine: Italy
Ingredients: 1 tablespoon vegetable oil; 3 tablespoons butter; 1½ pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts; 3 to 4 sprigs flat-leaf Italian parsley; 2 lemons; Salt; ¼ cup all-purpose flour; Freshly ground black pepper

Petti di Polio al Limone

Preparation info

Serves
4
as a main course

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
30 min

Appears in

How to Cook Italian

By Giuliano Hazan

Published 2005

About

This simple, classic preparation is as good with chicken breast fillets as it is with veal scaloppine. Serve it with a vegetable dish, such as Green Beans with Parmigiano or Fried Portobello Mushrooms.

Ingredients

1½ pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2 lemons
3

Europe
Italy
Main course
Mediterranean

Method

Trim any fat from the chicken breasts and slice them horizontally in half.
Grate the zest from one of the lemons and juice both lemons. You need about ¼ cup juice. Finely chop enough of the parsley leaves to measure 1