Another recipe for chicken breasts

Everyone hates on a breast, but this is the way to do it.

Of the many chicken recipes we’ve explored around these parts, the one we’re about to eat is one of my favorites. I’ve made it many times, so many that I swore to myself that I’d made it here—it’s one of the dishes I would make regularly in college that prompted this cookbook to begin with—but apparently I have not. Which means you’re getting it now, a favorite of mine. You’re welcome.

As I discussed recently at a delicious Italian dinner with friends, if veal is on the menu, I will order it, because how often do you have veal? (Never, the veal haters reading this will say to themselves.) And if veal/chicken piccata and veal/chicken marsala are on the menu, I will struggle over which to order. Luckily, that night, Sam got the chicken piccata and I got the veal marsala, we split the two, and it was magical. I consider this dish a cross between Chicken Piccata and Chicken Marsala, and have enjoyed many variations of it. When I’m feeling capers and not mushrooms, I’ll go in that direction and include whole lemon slices; this time, I did it with mushrooms for recipe’s sake (a new phrase I’m trying out), though we ate it both ways in my youth. I’ll note, however, that I never include peppers when making this and have never had it that way. Gross.

I bought the chicken pre-pounded because as we know I hate to pound, and used Better Than Bouillon. We were out of real butter but somehow had margarine so I used that instead and think that meant the outside of the meat didn’t brown as much as I would have liked. But otherwise, this recipe was followed as it reads—a rarity around these parts. It’s an easy and actually delicious way to eat chicken breasts, a particularly out-of-favor cut; make sure you add the zest. Make it any weeknight and you will not be sorry—the sauce in particular is so good on the rice (seen here with a side of classic Kate sautéed kale). Does it look like a pile of slop? Sure but I guess you knew what you were signing up for, or do now.

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