Monday, February 22, 2016

Lemon Pepper Chicken and Rice

4 tbsp. butter
2 lg chicken breasts, cut into strips
salt & pepper to taste
4 TBSP white grape juice concentrate( you can use white grape juice or wine-may need more to achieve the flavor since I use concentrate)
4 TBSP fresh lemon juice
1 TBSP grated lemon zest/peel
2- 2 1/2 C whipping cream ( I don't like the heavy, just normal whipping cream)
salt & pepper to taste
3/4 C fresh grated parmesan cheese

Melt butter in a large skillet.  Place chicken pieces in the pan, salt and pepper generously, and sauté until browned. Then place on a paper towel to drain some of the butter off.  After the chicken has sat a couple minutes, place it in a 9x13 glass casserole dish.

Your pan should have very nice browned bits on the bottom.  This is where all the good flavor is, so keeping your heat on, dump the grape juice concentrate(mine is juice from garden grapes in the fall that I can) in the pan.  Watch out because you'll get a lot of steam/smoke coming up as this gets all the good stuff loosened.  Stir with a wooden spoon to get all the brown bits up.
Then add the lemon juice and lemon zest. Slowly add the cream.  stirring constantly.  Then salt and pepper your sauce generously(I wish I could be exact but I just sprinkle salt back and forth about twice, and pepper until it looks nicely even through the sauce).
When sauce is warmed through, pour over chicken in casserole dish.

Then sprinkle parmesan cheese on top.
Turn on broiler to LO and broil for about 5 minutes until cheese is melted and lightly browned.
Then serve over your favorite kind of rice.  This sauce is so good!  Make sure you serve this with French bread or rolls, because you'll want to soak up every last drip!  Enjoy!
















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