How to jazz up chicken breasts
Serves: 2 - 4
Lemony, briny chicken and chickpeas!
How to jazz up some chicken breasts in 15 minutes. This is, of course, a play on lemon scallopini, but here I’ve bulked it out with a can of chickpeas and some fried capers for a rounded, quick, and easy dinner that feels just a little bit fancy.
There are many nights when all I want is a plain, simple plate of food. For that craving, it’s grilled chicken and greens - in fact, it’s how I start my new book. Sometimes, when I feel inclined, I jazz things up and here, it’s this lemony, briny chickpea combo.
We’ve spoken about my love of fried capers before, and here they add a salty, briny pop to the chicken. You then cook the chicken in that lovely, infused caper oil. Butter brings this sauce together, providing a lovely base for the chickpeas to warm up (and release starch = extra creamy), and then baste the chicken in it. I love it, and I hope you do too.
The most important thing here is to taste and balance your sauce to your liking.