Crispy chicken costoletta

Crispy Chicken Costoletta

• 4 chicken breasts, cut horizontally, and pounded to about 1/4 inch thick or 4 chicken cutlets
• Zest of 2 lemons
• 1 1/2 cups plain breadcrumbs
• 2 tablespoons grated parmesan cheese
• 2 eggs, whisked with 2 tablespoons water
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1 teaspoon ground pepper
• 1 teaspoon kosher salt

Lemon Sauce

• 2 garlic cloves, finely minced
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 cups heavy whipping cream
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
• Juice from 2 lemons (1/4 cup)
• 1 ounce (1/8 cup) chicken stock or broth or water if you don't have stock readily available 
• kosher salt
• fresh ground pepper
• 1 tablespoon butter

Directions:

Preheat oven to 200°F.

Zest two lemons. Bake zest for about 5 minutes until dry. On one paper plate combine flour, pepper and salt. In shallow bowl combine eggs and water, whisk together. On another paper plate combine dry lemon zest, bread crumbs and cheese.

Place pounded chicken in the flour, coating well, followed by the egg mixture and the bread crumbs. Heat 2 tbs olive oil and 1 tbs butter in a large frying pan over medium high heat. Place chicken in pan and cook on each side about 5 minutes until middle is no longer pink. You will need to work in batches, adding more oil and butter as needed. Keep chicken warm in oven at 250°F.

For the lemon sauce:.

Over medium heat in a same pan you used for chicken heat olive oil, add minced garlic and sauté about 3 minutes. Add whipping cream and boil until reduced by one-third.

Add Dijon, lemon juice, chicken stock and salt and pepper to taste. Simmer about 5 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in butter until melted. Serve chicken with lemon sauce and mashed garlic potatoes.