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🍽️ Chicken breast with fresh parsley sauce and green beans

485 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings

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Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1. Rinse the chicken breast fillets under running water.
  2. 2. Pat the meat completely dry with a kitchen towel.
  3. 3. Season the fillets generously on both sides with salt and black pepper.
  4. 4. Heat the oil in a large pan over medium-high heat.
  5. 5. Sear the chicken breast fillets for five minutes on each side until golden brown.
  6. 6. Remove the cooked fillets from the pan and let them cool on a plate.
  7. 7. Wash the parsley thoroughly and pat it dry.
  8. 8. Chop the parsley very finely.
  9. 9. Finely chop the pine nuts as well.
  10. 10. Peel the garlic clove.
  11. 11. Place the parsley, pine nuts, garlic, and a pinch of salt into a mortar.
  12. 12. Pound the ingredients in the mortar to form a coarse paste.
  13. 13. Stir in the oil gradually until a creamy sauce forms.
  14. 14. Grate the lemon peel into fine strips using a zester.
  15. 15. Wash the green beans thoroughly.
  16. 16. Break or cut off the hard ends of the beans.
  17. 17. Cook the beans in boiling salted water for eight minutes.
  18. 18. Remove the beans from the water and immediately shock them in cold water to stop the cooking process.
  19. 19. Cut the cooled chicken breast into bite-sized pieces or strips.
  20. 20. Serve the chicken together with the green beans and the parsley sauce.
  21. 21. Sprinkle the dish with the capers and the lemon zest.
  22. 22. Finish by seasoning everything with freshly ground pepper from a mill.

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