Review: Pan-Seared Chicken Breast W/Creamy Lemon Sauce

[legacypc46]

This is from the Volume 2 of 29 Minutes Cookbook.

One caveat: I already had skinless chicken breasts, so I used those instead of ones with skins. I didn't reduce the microwave time enough, so I over cooked (nuked?) them a little. This also lessened the lemon flavor (since I didn't have any skin to tuck the lemon slices under.)

Overall, this was good, but not good enough to make again. DH liked the presentation and the idea of this recipe, but we both found the spinach a little overpowering for the rest of the dish. Also, the recipe is broken down in three steps...but it's not as 1-2-3 as it looks.

Still, dinner was on the table in exactly the 28 minutes predicted. The cost of ingredients, minus the chicken, was less than $6.

 

[Chef Kearns]

I was wondering about that one! I'm glad you reviewed it. Thanks Leggy. I hate dealing with skin-on bone-in chicken and was hesistant to try this recipe. And now I don't have to! LOL!

 

[ChefPaulaB]

I'm planning on making this tonight... now I'm a little nervous, but I already told my DH what we're having and bought the ingredients. I thought that I'd go completely by the recipe (bone and skins) just to see... I usually go with skinless & boneless... my biggest problem is I forgot to get the fresh spinach... I have some frozen chopped spinach, do you think that'll make a huge difference?

 

[Chefstover2]

I made this last week, only substituted rice for orzo (cooked the rice on the stovetop and then at the end stirred in the spinach). My DH who is NOT an adventurous eater really liked it. He even rated it "make it again". I loved the lemon sauce stirred into the rice/spinach. Made it almost rissoto-ish.

 

[ChefPaulaB]

I made this last week, only substituted rice for orzo (cooked the rice on the stovetop and then at the end stirred in the spinach). My DH who is NOT an adventurous eater really liked it. He even rated it "make it again". I loved the lemon sauce stirred into the rice/spinach. Made it almost rissoto-ish.

Did you use fresh spinach or frozen, do you think frozen will be okay?

 

[ChefPaulaB]

Well, we made it for dinner.... I did use the frozen spinach and I have to say we were not overjoyed with the Orzo with Spinach... don't know if it was because of the frozen spinach, but it just seemed like way too much spinach. Next time I would use half of the spinach, add salt and pepper after I combined the orzo and spinach, and I would add more of the sauce to it before hand. Also, we had 3 bone in skinless breasts (thought they had skin too but the didn't) and one boneless skinless... the one b-less s-less was very tender and juicy, the other ones were quite chewy... so next time I would use all boneless/skinless... it definitely had potential, just needs some tweaking... we all loved the sauce though... Will try again with adjustments.