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Chicken Saltimbocca Recipe

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Nora Weber

Chicken Saltimbocca
Chicken Saltimbocca

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, chicken saltimbocca. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Chicken Saltimbocca is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Chicken Saltimbocca is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

Lidia Bastianich's chicken saltimbocca is a quick, streamlined recipe for busy cooks. It's simply seared chicken breasts with prosciutto in a white wine sauce. Chicken Saltimbocca. this link is to an external site that may or may not meet accessibility guidelines. Today we make both of them.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken saltimbocca using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Saltimbocca:
  1. Get 4 to 6 chicken breast filets
  2. Make ready 1 fresh or frozen spinach (if frozen then thaw before prep)
  3. Prepare 4 to 6 slices of prosciutto (1 for each filet)
  4. Make ready 1 fresh mozzarella (sliced) or grated fresh parmesan cheese
  5. Prepare 1 salt and pepper
  6. Take 1 several toothpicks
  7. Make ready 1 cup red pasta sauce see Basic Sauce Recipe
  8. Prepare 1 cup chicken stock
  9. Take 1 juice of 1/2 - 1 lemon
  10. Make ready 1 flour (approx 1/4 cup…optional)
  11. Take 1 Extra Virgin Olive Oil (enough to coat pan well)

Saltimbocca's name means to "jump in the mouth" with flavor. It is a restaurant dish, but at home on a weeknight, a chicken breast version makes a very tasty facsimile. Pound the chicken and marinate it in a mixture of chopped sage, garlic and olive oil, then brown it quickly before it goes under the broiler. In Italian, saltimbocca means "jumps in the mouth" — this delightful and sinfully simple recipe does just that.

Instructions to make Chicken Saltimbocca:
  1. Filet chicken breasts or buy it already filetted. Trim fat off and pound flat. Salt and pepper both sides.
  2. Add spinach then prosciutto then cheese. Roll tightly from bottom to top and toothpick to hold in place.
  3. Roll each chicken in flour.
  4. in a deep frying pan heat oil at med-hi. Sear chicken on each side briefly. (1-2 min each side)
  5. Add sauce, stock, and lemon juice to chicken. Bring to a boil briefly and then lower temperature to simmer and cover for 15-20 min. Turn each chicken over and simmer for another 15-20 min
  6. Plate and spoon sauce over chicken. Enjoy!
  7. NOTE top with extra parm cheese and serve with rice or pasta or alongside grilled asparagus.
  8. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Pound the chicken and marinate it in a mixture of chopped sage, garlic and olive oil, then brown it quickly before it goes under the broiler. In Italian, saltimbocca means "jumps in the mouth" — this delightful and sinfully simple recipe does just that. Saltimbocca also refers to the Roman style of preparing cutlets of meat, traditionally veal, but often chicken and pork in the US. The cutlet is pounded thin and wrapped in prosciutto and hearty. Thin chicken cutlets and sage leaves are wrapped in prosciutto and pan-fried for this quick and easy main dish.

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