Creamy Lemon Chicken - Nice and Easy

This delicious and easy chicken can be served over potatoes or pasta. I served it once over linguine and once over sliced honey gold baby potatoes sauteed in butter for 10 minutes.We liked both. The originator of the recipe also served it over mashed potatoes.  

I found this recipe at http://www.recipetineats.com/creamy-lemon-chicken/

The original recipe serves four. Since I was cooking for just the two of us, I reduced the amount of chicken in half.

Below is my version of the original recipe.

Ingredients

- 1 chicken breast sliced in half horizontally to create two thin pieces of chicken. The weight of the chicken breast depends on how much chicken you'd like. For starters, you could try a 12-ounce piece.
- salt and pepper
- 3 tbsp flour
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp butter
- 1 1/4 cups chicken broth or stock
- 3/4 cup of regular or low-fat cream
- juice of one lemon
- a tbsp of finely chopped parsley

Instructions

1. Sprinkle each side of each piece of chicken with salt and pepper. Then coat each piece with flour and shake of the excess.
2. Place butter and oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. When the butter melts, swirl the oil and butter together.
3. Add chicken and cook the first side until golden. Then turn over and cook until the other side is golden. This took me about 5 minutes per side. Remove chicken to a plate.
4. Reduce heat to medium. Add 1/4 cup of chicken broth; bring to a simmer, and scrape the brown bits on the bottom of the skillet into the liquid. Add remaining chicken broth and cream. Simmer for two minutes until slightly thickened. (The sauce thickens more as it cools during serving.)
5. Stir through  the lemon juice and season to taste with salt and pepper. Add more lemon juice if you wish.
6. Return chicken to the skillet. (Also pour in any juice on the plate that held the chicken.) Cook for another minute to reheat the chicken and thicken the sauce more.
7. Place chicken on dinner plates with pasta or potatoes. Sprinkle with parsley if desired. Either pour the lemon cream sauce over the chicken or put it in a gravy bowl for diners' choice.