Chicken Francese With Gremolata By Rachael Ray Recipes

CHICKEN FRANCESE WITH GREMOLATA BY RACHAEL RAY

Steps:

• Set oven to 300 degrees.
• Prepare pot with boiling water and cook pasta until just done.
• Combine lemon zest, parsley, anchovy if using, garlic. Set aside.
• Put flour in one dish and beaten eggs in another.
• Dredge seasoned chicken in flour and then in egg.
• Heat a large pan to medium high heat and add 3 tablespoons oil and 2 tablespoons butter.
• Fry the meat in mixture until just done.
• Place on a platter in warm oven.
• In pan with remaining oil/butter, add wine/stock/lemon juice.
• Reduce while pasta is cooking.
• Add half of the parsley mixture.
• Melt the remaining 2 tablespoons butter in sauce.
• When pasta is done, drain and add to the sauce in the pan, along with the spinach and basil.
• Warm until vegetables are wilted.
• Place chicken on warmed dinner plates.
• Top each with some of the reserved parsley mixture and serve with the pasta on the side.

CHICKEN FRANCESE AND EGG TAGLIATELLE

Steps:

• Warm a serving platter in a 250 degree F oven.
• Pile the parsley, anchovies and garlic on a cutting board and finely chop them together. Mix in the lemon zest.
• Bring a large pot of salted water to a boil. Add the pasta and cook until al dente.
• Meanwhile, cut into and across the chicken breasts and open them like a book. Pound into very thin cutlets, 1/8 to 1/4-inch thick. Sprinkle the chicken with salt and pepper on both sides, then dredge in flour to coat. Beat the eggs in a shallow dish with a splash of water.
• Heat 2 tablespoons EVOO and 2 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium to medium-high heat. Dip 2 pieces of the chicken in the egg to coat, then saute until cooked through, about 2 minutes per side. Transfer to the warm platter. Add 1 tablespoon butter to the skillet and cook the remaining pieces of chicken. Add to the platter.
• Add the chicken stock, wine and lemon juice to the skillet and simmer until slightly reduced. Add the remaining 3 tablespoons butter and stir until melted. Add the chicken to the sauce, turning it to coat, then return the chicken to the platter. Add half the parsley-anchovy gremolata to the sauce, then add the pasta and toss for 1 to 2 minutes.
• Garnish the chicken with the remaining gremolata and serve alongside the pasta.

PAN-GRILLED CHICKEN WITH GREMOLATA

Steps:

• Heat a grill pan over medium-high heat. Remove the tenderloins from the chicken breast and set aside for another use. Brush the chicken lightly with oil, then season the skin with salt and pepper. Place the chicken on the grill skin-side down, and cook until the edges turn opaque, about 6 minutes. (To get nifty cross-hatch grill marks, about half way through cooking reposition the breast about 45 degrees from their original position.) Season with salt and pepper, and turn chicken over, and cook until firm to the touch, about 6 more minutes.
• While the chicken cooks, make the gremolata: Chop the garlic, add the salt, and continue chopping to make a paste. In a small bowl, stir the garlic together with the lemon zest, parsley and olive oil Season with pepper, to taste.
• Slice the breasts, against the grain and serve with the gremolata.

DEVILED CHICKEN FRANCESE

Steps:

• Gather your ingredients and a gel board to prepare chicken.
• Halve the chicken breasts horizontally and butterfly them. Use a mallet to thin meat or even it out if needed -- it depends on the size of the chicken breasts. Season meat with salt and pepper.
• Set a station up: Flour in shallow dish; eggs beaten with mustard, milk, salt, pepper and cheese; large frying pan with oil (4 to 5 turns of the pan); a baking sheet with wire rack inserted and lined with parchment paper to remove the chicken to.
• Preheat the oil in skillet over medium to medium-high heat. Coat chicken 2 at a time in flour, shake of excess, then in egg and allow excess to drip off. Cook chicken 3 to 4 minutes on each side. Repeat, removing cooked chicken to wire rack. Once chicken is cooked, slice and lightly brown 1 lemon; add to pan with chicken. Wipe excess oil from pan, return to heat and add butter. When it foams add 1 clove crushed garlic, juice of 1 lemon, wine and chili paste and reduce about 3 minutes. Add stock and reduce 5 minutes more. Pick and chop the parsley.
• Char the bread over gas burner or under broiler. Rub charred bread with halved garlic, drizzle with EVOO, sprinkle with flaky sea salt and cut bread into chunks.
• Add the chicken back to sauce and heat the meat through, 3 to 4 minutes, turning occasionally. Add the sliced lemons and coat with sauce. Add parsley and transfer to plates. Serve cutlets with a small handful of arugula leaves alongside and some charred bread for mopping.

CHICKEN FRANCESE

Steps:

• Melt 1 tbsp butter in a medium non-reactive saucepan. Saute onions until translucent, 2-3 minute Add wine, juice and broth. Turn heat to high until sauce boils, then turn down to medium and reduce to 1 1/2 cups. Strain into a measuring cup and set aside.
• Preheat oven to 200 degrees F. Place a baking rack in a rimmed baking sheet and place in oven.
• Slice breasts in half horizontally and pound to an even 1/4" thickness. Whisk salt and pepper into flour in a pie plate. Whisk eggs and milk in a second pie plate. Dip chicken cutlets in flour, then in egg, then back in flour. Set aside on a rack over a baking sheet.
• When all 8 cutlets are coated, melt 1 tbsp butter in 1 tbsp oil in a 12" nonstick skillet. Saute 4 cutlets over medium heat until nicely browned, 1 1/2 to 2 minutes. Flip and brown another 30-60 seconds. Remove cutlets to baking rack in oven.
• Wipe out pan with paper towel, and using another 1 tbsp butter and 1 tbsp oil, cook remaining 4 cutlets. Remove to baking rack.
• Wipe out pan with paper towel and add reserved sauce to now-empty pan over medium heat. Swirl in remaining 2 tbsp butter. Dip cutlets in sauce and serve, 2 cutlets per serving.

CHICKEN FRANCESE

Steps:

• Dust chicken with flour.
• In a flat container mix together eggs and enough parmesan cheese to create a thick batter (something like pancake batter).
• Dip breasts in batter and cook at medium to med-high heat in a little olive oil, brown a little on both sides.
• Remove all chicken to a platter- keep warm.
• In same skillet increase heat to a med-high and quickly brown the garlic (not too brown) then deglaze pan with wine and let"boil" a few minutes.
• Add broth, butter and let cook until butter has melted.
• Add parsley, quickly whisking together.
• Add lemon juice 1/4 at a time until desired taste.
• Thicken if desired.
• Ladle over chicken and pasta on individual plates, with a garnish of lemon wedges and parmesan cheese.

CHICKEN FRANCESE

Steps:

• Place chicken breasts side by side on a cutting board and cover with a piece of plastic wrap.
• Pound the chicken breasts with a meat mallet until they are about 1/4 inch thick.
• Place some all purpose flour in a large Zip Loc bag and season with a fair amount of salt and pepper.
• Shake bag to mix flour and seasonings.
• In a wide bowl beat the eggs with 3 tablespoons of water to make egg wash.
• Pour oil in a large skillet and heat over medium-high heat until oil is hot about 5-6 minutes.
• Place chicken breasts in Zip Loc bag containing seasoned flour mixture and shake to coat completely.
• Dredge chicken in egg wash.
• Once oil is hot add chicken and fry for 2 minutes on each side until golden brown, turning once.
• Remove chicken to a large platter and keep warm.
• Toss the lemon slices into the skillet and cook for 1-2 minutes, until fragrant.
• Add the wine, chicken broth and lemon juice and simmer for 5 minutes to reduce the sauce slightly.
• Roll the butter in some flour and add to the skillet- this will thicken the sauce.
• Stir to mix well and dissolve the flour.
• Reduce heat to medium-low and return the chicken to the pan.
• Place the lemon slices on top of the chicken.
• Simmer gently for 2 minutes to heat the chicken through.
• Season with salt and apper and garnish with chopped parsley before serving.

ELENA'S CHICKEN FRANCESE

Steps:

• Place flour in a shallow bowl.
• Roll chicken in flour to coat.
• Beat eggs, parmesan, parsley, salt& pepper until foamy.
• Heat olive oil& butter in skillet over med.
• high heat.
• Dip chicken is egg mixture.
• Place in skillet, cook chicken until browned, about 3 min per side.
• Squeeze lemon juice on chicken and cook 1 min.
• longer.