Skillet Chicken With Creamy Cilantro Lime Sauce

This cilantro lime fowl simmers in a creamy flavor packed sauce and comes together in most effective 1 pan!

Tell me about your 4th of July! What did you do? Did you're making any of my recipes? hearth up the grill? Watch fireworks and capture some rays? The climate changed into miserable, humid, and wet on Saturday right here in Philly so quite a few my celebrating become interior. Which didn’t forestall us from the pleasant celebration of all time.

Seeing how lots of you adore my current glazed salmon recipe inspires me to percentage more of my dinner favorites like this cilantro lime chicken. at the same time as I revel in baking cakes the most (cookies > dinner), dinner is an normal journey. And if you’re like me, you’re constantly attempting to find brief and smooth food. well, you’ve come to the proper region nowadays.

This meal jogs my memory of my days waitressing at Chilis! good times. It additionally has me yearning margaritas at the rocks, a mountain of chips and guacamole, and key lime pie for dessert. (In want of looking to hold meals healthful and my shorts fitting, I settled for water and a facet of asparagus.)

INGREDIENTS:

• 4 skinless boneless chicken breasts
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 1 Tablespoon olive oil
• 1 cup chicken broth (I recommend reduced sodium)
• 1 Tablespoon fresh lime juice (I use closer to 1.5 Tbsp)
• 1/4 cup finely chopped onion
• 1 Tablespoon chopped cilantro
• 1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
• 3 Tablespoons heavy cream
• 2 Tablespoons unsalted butter, cubed
• optional: lime wedges and more cilantro for garnish, steamed asparagus for serving

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Preheat oven to 375°F (one hundred ninety°C).
2. If the chook breasts are choppy in thickness, pound them down in order that they’re all even. This way all the breasts will cook dinner through concurrently. Sprinkle every with salt and pepper.
3. In a big ovenproof skillet, warmness the oil over medium-high warmth. add the chicken and prepare dinner for 6-7 minutes, turning once. You want the chook exceptional and browned at the outside. (It doesn’t should be cooked all of the way thru yet.) Set fowl on a plate and cover tightly with foil till step 5.
4. Take away skillet from heat and upload the broth, lime juice, onion, cilantro, and purple pepper. return to warmth. prepare dinner and stir to scrape up the browned bits from the lowest of the skillet. deliver to a boil. permit to boil lightly, exposed, for 10 minutes or till the liquid is reduced to around 1/four cup. (at some stage in this time you may steam some veggies to have on the aspect, like asparagus.) reduce warmness to medium-low, then add the cream and butter. Stir till butter has melted.
5. Add chook to the sauce and region the skillet in the preheated oven. Bake uncovered until the hen is absolutely cooked thru, about 5-10 minutes.
6. Serve bird with sauce spooned on pinnacle and any of the listed elective garnishes. Leftovers hold nicely inside the refrigerator for some days. Reheat to your liking.

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