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    Lemon chicken recipe

    Lemon chicken

    A quick and easy zesty lemon chicken recipe that makes the perfect mid-week meal!

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    Lemon chicken

    Dinner
    By Kate Turner – Serves: 4
    Total Time: 25 minutes

    Ingredients

    • The chicken
    • 4 chicken breasts, pounded until ½ cm thick 
    • 1 tsp salt 
    • 1 tsp pepper 
    • 4 tbsp flour
    • The sauce
    • 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
    • ½ cup chicken stock 
    • ¼ cup white wine 
    • Juice of 1 lemon
    • 2 tbsp chopped parsley
    • ½ cup cream

    Instructions

    For the chicken

    1

    Season the chicken breasts with the salt and pepper. Then coat in the flour, shaking off any excess.

    2

    Heat some oil over medium-high heat, cook the chicken breasts, turning occasionally until browned on all sides and almost cooked through. Set aside to rest.

    For the sauce

    3

    In the same pan, sauté the garlic until fragrant. Deglaze the pan with chicken stock and white wine.

    4

    Add the lemon juice, parsley, and cream. Bring to a boil and allow to reduce for 3 minutes.

    5

    Add the chicken breasts and cover. Simmer until cooked all the way through. Season to taste.

    6

    Dish the chicken up onto a serving platter and spoon over the lemony sauce. Serve with extra parsley and fried lemon slices.

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    Recipes & Styling: Kate Turner

    Photography: K-Leigh Siebriz

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    A food stylist and recipe developer, contributing to Food & Home and other esteemed magazines under Habari Media. I love for creating mouthwatering recipes, I bring culinary visions to life through my work.

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