Pan-Seared Chicken Breasts with Browned Butter Sauce

Name: Pan-Seared Chicken Breasts with Browned Butter Sauce
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 4 (6- to 8-ounce), boneless, skinless chicken breasts, trimmed; 1 1/4 teaspoons, table salt, divided; 1/2 teaspoon, pepper; 1/4 cup, all-purpose flour; 2 tablespoons, extra-virgin olive oil; 6 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 6 pieces; 2 tablespoons, capers, rinsed; 2 tablespoons, lemon juice; 3 tablespoons, minced fresh chives, divided

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Appears in Cook's Country August/September 2020

Main Courses

Chicken

Weeknight

This easy weeknight supper rests on a foundation of a delicious tongue twister: Browning makes butter better.

SERVES4

TIME45 minutes

Pan-Seared Chicken Breasts with Browned Butter Sauce

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Sautéed chicken breasts coated in a lemony browned butter sauce studded with capers make for an easy, intensely flavorful weeknight meal. We started with a light-colored conventional skillet so that we could observe the changing color of th...

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