Make this easy fresh Chicken Breast with Lemon Sauce dinner that’s great for weeknight cooking. Just pair with pasta and veggies!
This Pan-Fried Chicken Breast with Creamy Lemon Sauce has a serious place in my heart! Isn’t chicken even more divine when it’s smothered with creamy sauce? The blend of velvety butter-fried chicken breasts with a tangy cream lemon sauce is out of this world. Serve the chicken on a bed of pasta so the flavors will soak down to create a taste you will not soon forget. You’ll want to keep this one in your recipe box!
Ingredients to make Chicken Breast with Creamy Lemon Sauce
- Chicken Breasts – we used boneless, skinless chicken for this recipe.
- Egg – large eggs are what we use for or recipes.
- All- purpose Flour – nothing fancy here!
- Butter – unsalted butter let’s the cook control the amount of salt in each recipe.
- Heavy Cream – or whipping cream.
- Lemons
How to make this Chicken Breast Recipe
We do not count calories with this dish as the chicken is fried in butter. Enough said! Oh my word…talk about velvety chicken!
- Use a sharp knife to halve your chicken breasts lengthwise, so that each breast is half the thickness it was before. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and set aside.
- Next, you’ll make a roux. The lemon sauce is started from a roux of melted butter and flour. Then add heavy cream, lemon zest, lemon juice and salt. Stir and cook over medium heat until thickened. The lemon sauce is drizzled over the chicken right before serving! Think of the old adage” if butter doesn’t make it good, add more butter”!
- Heat butter in your frying pan. Dredge the chicken in egg, then flour mix. Fry chicken about 5 minutes on each side, until internal temperature of 165 degrees. Transfer to a serving plate and pour over the sauce. Enjoy!
Hint?: if serving with pasta, start the water to boil before frying the chicken. When boiling, add the pasta and cook according to package directions. The pasta should be cooked and ready to plate about the same time as the chicken.
More Chicken Breast Recipe Ideas
- Easy Italian Chicken Giardiniera
- One Skillet Chicken Parmesan
- Creamy French Mustard Chicken
- Lemon Garlic Chicken Piccata
Chicken with Creamy Lemon Sauce
Ingredients
- 2 pounds chicken breasts boneless, skinless: cut in half lengthwise
- 4 tbsp unsalted butter
- 1 cup + 1 Tablespoon all purpose flour
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 4 tsp lemon zest
- 1/4 tsp lemon juice
- 1 large egg
- 8 ounces spaghetti pasta
- salt and pepper
Instructions
- In a medium pan over medium heat, melt 2 tablespoons butter. When melted, slowly add 1 tablespoon of flour and stir constantly for 2 minutes. Reduce heat to low and add heavy cream, lemon zest and lemon juice to saucepan, stirring constantly until thickened. Remove from heat and add salt and pepper to taste. Set aside.
- On a pie plate, stir together 1 cup flour, 1 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspooon pepper. Combine until well blended. On a second pie plate, crack egg, add 2 tablepoons water and whip with a fork until frothy. In a large frying pan, melt 1 tablespoon of butter.
- Dredge each breast in egg mixture, then immediately in flour, turning to coat completed. Add to melted butter in frying pan. Work in batches as needed. Fry chicken over medium high heat for 4 minutes on each side. Chicken should be 160 degress internally and be golden brown on the outside. If frying in batches, add second tablespoon of butter before adding new batch into pan. Keep completed batch under foil to keep warm.
- While chicken is cooking, cook 8 oz of pasta of choice (photo shows thin spaghetti) accoding to package directions.
- To serve, place pasta on plate, top with 2 chicken breast pieces and drizzle on sauce. mke sure to use enough sauce to run down into pasta. Serve hot and enjoy!
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Hi Marigene, thanks for visiting! I say Yummy three times too!! It is the creamy lemon sauce that just takes this recipe over the top! Have a super week Marigene!! Hugs-Christine
Hi Marigene, thanks for visiting! I say Yummy three times too!! It is the creamy lemon sauce that just takes this recipe over the top! Have a super week Marigene!! Hugs-Christine
Yummy, yummy, yummy! Thanks for sharing, Christine.