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Chicken with Lemon-Caper Sauce
This simple chicken recipes features chicken breasts browned in a skillet then topped with a flavorful sauce of lemon juice, capers, parsley, and vermouth. If you don't want to use vermouth, substitute 1/3 cup of chicken broth. Round out the meal by serving the chicken over pasta with a side dish of steamed asparagus.
Yield: 4 servings
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 163
- Calories from fat: 27%
- Fat: 4.8g
- Saturated fat: 0.8g
- Monounsaturated fat: 2.8g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.6g
- Protein: 26.5g
- Carbohydrate: 2.1g
- Fiber: 0.1g
- Cholesterol: 66mg
- Iron: 1mg
- Sodium: 474mg
- Calcium: 17mg
Ingredients
- 1/4 teaspoon salt, divided
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper, divided
- 4 (4-ounce) skinned, boned chicken breast halves
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Cooking spray
- 1/3 cup extra-dry vermouth
- 3 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
- 1 1/2 tablespoons capers
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley
Preparation
- Sprinkle 1/8 teaspoon salt and 1/8 teaspoon pepper evenly over chicken. Heat oil in a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray over medium-high heat. Add chicken; cook 6 minutes on each side or until chicken is done. Remove from skillet. Set aside; keep warm.
- Add 1/8 teaspoon salt, 1/8 teaspoon pepper, vermouth, lemon juice, and capers to skillet, scraping skillet to loosen browned bits. Cook until reduced to 1/4 cup (about 2 minutes). Stir in parsley. Spoon sauce over chicken.
Chicken with Lemon-Caper Sauce Recipe at a Glance
- COURSE: Main Dishes
- CONVENIENCE: Entertaining, Quick/Easy
- CUISINE: American
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Poultry
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Low Carbohydrate, Low Saturated Fat
- OCCASION: Valentine's Day
- PUBLICATION: Cooking Light
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