Keys-Style Citrus Chicken - P2

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Keys-Style Citrus Chicken - P2
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Thu, 02-17-2005 - 11:57am

Here's my citrus chicken recipe - ironically going back and looking at the original recipe it uses the WHOLE orange, so I'm assuming its okay!

4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
3 cloves garlic, peeled and thinly sliced
2 T butter substitue or oil
1 teaspoon lime zest
2 T lime juice
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger (I think its better with fresh and I use that when I have it, but its okay with the ground too)
1/8 teaspoon crushed red pepper
1 orange

In large skillet cook chicken and sliced garlic in butter substitue/oil over medium heat until chicken is no longer pink, turning chicken once and stirring garlic occasionally.

Meanwhile in small bowl combine lime peel, lime juice, ginger, and red pepper. Peel orange, reserving juice, slice in half lengthwise, then cut into crosswise slices (4). Add any reserved juice from the slicing process to the lime juice mixture and add it to the skillet. Place orange slices on top of chicken. Cover and cook a couple minutes until heated through.

(at this point, I personally remove the chicken from the pan and then stiry fry my veggies in the sauce - I usually just use a bag of frozen stir-fry vegetables. Then I put them on a plate, put the chicken on top, and then pour the sauce over all of it. I usually serve it with rice (brown now of course!) or couscous)

MichaelAnn

Edited to add: Nutritional Information per serving (makes 4 servings) 167 calories, 22 g protein, 5 g carbohydrate, 6 g fat (but that is using butter, so I don't know exactly what it would be with oil or butter substitute)




Edited 2/17/2005 2:03 pm ET ET by desert_mom


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Thu, 02-17-2005 - 12:56pm
It sounds wonderful! Now I have to decide whether to cook this for dinner tonight or the Garlic Lime Chicken posted by sorbys_mom. Hmmmmm... tough one!

 

AtlantaGirl74

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Mon, 02-28-2005 - 2:48pm
We had this for dinner last night. I made it just like you suggested - with stir-fry veggies over brown rice. It was awesome... so much flavor! The citrus flavor really pops in your mouth! I will be adding this to the regular rotation. :-)

 

AtlantaGirl74

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Mon, 02-28-2005 - 5:45pm

Glad you liked it!

MichaelAnn



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