Sautéed Boneless, Skinless Chicken Breasts
The tenderloin--the strip of meat attached to a boneless, skinless chicken breast—slows down preparation and complicates cooking. Pull them from each breast half, remove their tendons and sauté them separately.
by: Three Many Cooks
Serves: 4
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1 tablespoon oil
- 4 boneless chicken breast halves, trimmed of fat and tenderloin removed and pounded with the dull side of chef's knife until more or less even textured
- Salt and ground black pepper
- ¼ cup flour measured into a pie plate or other shallow pan
- Pan sauce (recipes follow)
Instructions
- Heat butter and oil in an 11-to 12-inch skillet over low heat. While pan is heating, sprinkle chicken breasts and tenderloins on both sides with salt and pepper then dredge in flour.
- A couple of minutes before sautéing, increase heat to medium-high. When butter stops foaming and starts to smell nutty brown, arrange chicken breasts, skinned side up, and tenderloins in skillet. Cook, turning only once, until chicken breasts are rich golden brown, about 3 minutes per side (tenderloins will be done a little sooner). Remove chicken from skillet.
- Make one of the pan sauces that follow by adding ⅔ cup liquid to the empty skillet; boil until liquid is reduced to about ⅓ cup. Tilting skillet so that reduced liquid is at one side of the pan, whisk in butter until sauce is smooth and glossy. Spoon a portion of sauce over each sautéed chicken breast and serve immediately.
Curried Chutney Pan Sauce
by: Three Many Cooks
Ingredients
- Liquid: 6 tablespoons low-sodium chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons rice wine vinegar
- Flavoring: 2 tablespoons prepared chutney, such as Major Grey’s
- ¼ teaspoon curry powder
- Fat: 1 tablespoon butter
Instructions
- Measure broth, vinegar, chutney, and curry in a 1-cup Pyrex measuring cup. Follow instructions for making a pan sauce.
Orange-Dijon Pan Sauce With Rosemary
by: Three Many Cooks
Ingredients
- Liquid: ½ cup orange juice
- Flavoring: 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
- ½ teaspoon minced fresh rosemary leaves
- Fat: 1 tablespoon butter
Instructions
- Measure juice, mustard, and rosemary in a 1-cup Pyrex measuring cup. Follow instructions for making a pan sauce.
Lemon-Caper Pan Sauce
by: Three Many Cooks
Ingredients
- Liquid: 6 tablespoons low-sodium chicken broth
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- Flavoring: 2 teaspoons drained capers
- Fat: 1 tablespoon butter
Instructions
- Measure broth, lemon juice, and capers in a 1-cup Pyrex measuring cup. Follow instructions for making a pan sauce.
Easy weeknight dinner. Love the sauce!
This chicken looks delicious! I would love to have this chicken with the lemon-caper pan sauce…yum!
I could eat capers by the spoonful (seriously), so the pan sauce in the photo is very appealing to me. However, I’m also very interested to try the chutney one, too – yum!
LOVE the sounds of this recipe, drooling!
It doesn’t get any easier than this! Yum!
I remember that it was this section of the book with the pan sauces that really became my “Aha!” moment. I love how easy it is, and that all you have to remember is a formula. It’s what made me rush to tell my brother the math whiz to go and read this book.
Oh honestly, this is now one of my favourite, simple chicken recipes and my whole family loves it! Thank you!