Saturday, March 07, 2009

Nancy's Luncheon


Nancy’s Famous Chicken Picatta

Ingredients:

6 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves

2 tablespoons butter

¼ cup olive oil

Flour for coating chicken and

Salt and pepper to taste

4 garlic cloves, finely chopped

1 pound mushrooms, cleaned and chopped

1 ½ cups white wine

½ cup capers, rinsed

Juice of 1 lemon, or to taste

1 cup fresh parsley, chopped

2 teaspoons dried oregano

Instructions:

Cut each chicken breast into

Quarters and place in a Ziploc

bag and seal. Using a meat mallet,

Gently pound the chicken pieces

on each side.

Melt butter with olive oil in a

large skillet. Heat over medium to

medium-high heat. Coat each

piece of chicken with flour,

salt and pepper and place in the

pan. Lightly brown each side of

the chicken. Add garlic and mushrooms

and stir all ingredients to combine.

add wine and cook 1 minute.

reduce heat to simmer. After 5

minutes, add capers, lemon juice,

almost all the parsley (reserve

some for garnish) and oregano.

Cover pan and simmer on low

heat for 25 minutes.

Garnish with reserved parsley and serve

over linguine.

This serves 6 people.





Getting it together



The lunch was so good!

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