Recipe: Delicious Crispy Lemon Chicken

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Crispy Lemon Chicken.

Crispy Lemon Chicken you can cook Crispy Lemon Chicken using 21 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Crispy Lemon Chicken

  1. You need of Chicken.
  2. You need 4 of chicken breasts, cut horizontally, and pounded to about 1/4 inch thick or 4 chicken cutlets.
  3. Prepare 2 of lemons, zest of.
  4. Prepare 1 1/2 cup of plain breadcrumbs.
  5. Prepare 2 tbsp of freshly grated parmesan cheese (optional).
  6. It's 2 of eggs, whisked with.
  7. It's 2 tbsp of water.
  8. Prepare 3 tbsp of flour.
  9. You need 1 tsp of ground pepper.
  10. You need 1 tsp of kosher salt.
  11. Prepare of Lemon Sauce.
  12. You need 2 of garlic cloves, finely minced.
  13. Prepare 1 tbsp of canola oil.
  14. Prepare 2 cup of heavy whipping cream.
  15. Prepare 1 tbsp of Dijon mustard.
  16. It's 1/4 cup of fresh lemon juice, plus.
  17. You need 1 tsp of fresh lemon juice.
  18. Prepare 1/9 cup of chicken stock.
  19. Prepare 1 of kosher salt.
  20. Prepare 1 of fresh ground pepper.
  21. It's 1 tbsp of unsalted butter.

Crispy Lemon Chicken instructions

  1. Preheat oven to 200°F.
  2. Zest two lemons. Bake zest for about 5 minutes until dry..
  3. On one plate combine flour, pepper and salt. On another plate combine eggs and water, whisk until combined. On another plate combine dry lemon zest, bread crumbs and cheese..
  4. Place pounded chicken in the flour, coating well, followed by the egg mixture and the bread crumbs..
  5. Heat 2 Tablespoons olive oil and 1 Tablespoon butter in a large frying pan over medium heat..
  6. Place chicken in pan and cook on each side about 5 minutes until middle is no longer pink. You will need to work in batches, adding more oil and butter as needed..
  7. Keep chicken warm in oven at 250°F..
  8. For the lemon sauce:. Over medium heat in a fairly large saucepan heat canola oil. Add minced garlic and sauté about 3 minutes..
  9. Add whipping cream and boil until reduced by one-third..
  10. Add Dijon, lemon juice, chicken stock and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer about 5 minutes..
  11. Remove from heat and stir in butter until melted..
  12. Serve chicken with lemon sauce and mashed garlic potatoes..