Chicken paillard escalope, topped with red peppers

Chicken paillard

Name: Chicken paillard
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 2
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: olive oil; 2 red peppers seeded and sliced; 1 clove garlic peeled and thinly sliced; 2 anchovies roughly chopped; a small bunch flat-leaf parsley roughly chopped; 1 lemon halved; 2 skinless chicken breast fillets

Published: May 18, 2023 at 2:41 PM

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Serves 2

Easy

Total time: 30 mins

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Try this easy paillard of chicken, flattened to make a thin escalope. Pan-fried and served with red peppers and anchovies, it's a speedy and healthy meal for two

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Recipe tip: The easiest method for flattening the chicken is bashing it with a rolling pin.

Ingredients

Nutrition

olive oil
2 red peppers

seeded and sliced
1 clove garlic

peeled and thinly sliced
2 anchovies

roughly chopped
a small bunch flat-leaf parsley

roughly chopped
1 lemon

halved
2 skinless chicken breast fillets

Nutrition: per serving

kcal224
fat5.5g
carbs10.5g
fibre4.5g
protein33g
salt0.5g

Method

step 1

Heat a little olive oil and fry the red peppers until they are soft and toasted at the edges. Add the garlic and stir, then add the anchovies and cook for 5 minutes before stirring through the parsley and squeezing over some lemon. Season.
step 2

Meanwhile, halve the chicken fillets horizontally, put them between sheets of cling film and bash them out with a rolling pin until thin. Brush with oil, season well and then fry until just cooked through. Squeeze over the remaining lemon and serve with the peppers.

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