Lemon Garlic Chicken

Lemon Butter Chicken is hands down our favorite family meal! It’s such an easy meal and comes together SO FAST! It’s a restaurant quality meal that you could proudly serve to guests. So flavorful and comforting, it tastes like you fussed all day!

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You will need:

4-6 Thin Chicken Breasts

Olive Oil

Flour

Salt & freshly ground pepper

2 cloves garlic, pressed

1 cup chicken broth

Juice of one large lemon

½ tsp lemon zest

2 Tb butter, optional

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Salt & Pepper both sides of each thin chicken breast.  Then coat the breast in flour, shaking off excess.

In a large frying pan add about 3-4 Tbs olive oil.  Pan fry chicken breasts on medium, about 5 minutes each side or until internal temperature reads 165 degrees.

You may have to do 2 batches, adding olive oil between each batch.

Remove chicken from pan and immediately whisk in chicken broth getting all the nice bits off the bottom of the pan. 

Next add in the garlic, lemon juice and lemon zest.  Reduce by half.

You may add the butter (this is optional) for a creamier sauce.

Add the chicken back in the pan and coat with the sauce. 

Serve with my Creamy Garlic Parmesan Orzo

This Lemon Garlic Chicken will be your new family favorite! Perfect for a weeknight because it’s so easy to make and fast! Serve it along side my Garlic Parmesan Orzo – it cooks up nicely at the same time as the chicken – just put it on to simmer while you’re frying the chicken!