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Chicken with Lemon and Garlic

Chicken strips spiced with paprika, flash-fried with shallot, garlic and lemon juice. An impressive yet incredibly quick dish — on the table in under 20 minutes.

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Prep: 15 min
Cook: 5 min
Total: 20 min
Serves: 4
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Ingredients

  • 4 skinless chicken breast fillets
  • 4 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 shallots, finely chopped
  • 6–8 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 2 tsp paprika
  • Juice of 2 lemons
  • 4 tbsp chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley
  • Salt and ground black pepper

To Serve

  • Fresh flat-leaf parsley, to garnish
  • Lemon wedges
  • Fried potatoes

Method

  1. Remove the little fillet from the back of each breast portion. If the breast still looks fatter than a finger, bat it with a rolling pin to make it thinner. Slice all the chicken meat into strips.
  2. Heat the oil in a large frying pan. Stir-fry the chicken strips with the shallot, garlic and paprika over a high heat for about 3 minutes until cooked through.
  3. Add the lemon juice and parsley and season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve hot with lemon wedges, garnished with flat-leaf parsley.

Tips

Variation: Try using strips of turkey breast or pork fillet instead — they need slightly longer cooking. Spring onion whites can replace the shallots, using the chopped green tops in place of parsley.

Cook’s tip: Chicken breasts have a little fillet strip that easily becomes detached. Collect these in a bag or container in the freezer and save them up for this dish.