chicken breasts with lemon

How To Make chicken breasts with lemon

• 1

  Season flour with salt and pepper, and dredge the chicken all over.
• 2

  Shake off excess flour.
• 3

  Heat the oil in a heavy skillet large enough to hold the chicken pieces in one layer.
• 4

  Add chicken and cook, uncovered, over medium heat for 5 minutes or until lightly browned.
• 5

  Turn the chicken and cook for 5 more minutes, or until cooked through.
• 6

  Carefully remove the oil from the skillet, leaving the chicken.
• 7

  Discard the oil.
• 8

  Add the thyme, shallots and garlic, and cook for about a minute.
• 9

  Do not burn the garlic.
• 10

  Add the lemon rind, the lemon juice and the broth.
• 11

  Scrape the skillet to dissolve the brown particles that cling to the bottom.
• 12

  Add the butter, and cook for 3 minutes longer.
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