UPDATED 5/14/2011 – SEE BOTTOM FOR DETAILS
Ingredients:
Pasta
2 Chicken Breasts – pounded thin or sliced into thin pieces
Salt and pepper
Flour and your favorite seasonings/herbs/spices for coating chicken
Zipper bag for coating chicken
Olive Oil
1 1/2 cups heavy cream
Zest of 1 large lemon – you want this sauce to be very “lemony”
Juice of 1 large lemon – about ¼ cup
½ teaspoon minced garlic
1/2 cup grated Cello Grated Romano**
Capers (optional)
Directions:
Set your water boiling for your pasta. Cook it to time up with when chicken and sauce are ready.
Prepare your chicken breasts either by pounding to make them thin or slice thin. We only use Foster Farms chicken around the manse.
Salt and pepper raw chicken pieces to taste.
Put flour and favorite seasonings in zipper bag. The Lady added a little dry chicken bouillon, celery seeds, paprika and chili powder.
Put chicken in zipper bag and toss to coat chicken pieces.
Heat olive oil in frying pan.
Add chicken and cook until nicely browned on both sides and cooked through. About 5-7 minutes each side.
Set chicken aside and cover to keep warm.
In same pan, add and heat cream until just about boiling. Add lemon zest, lemon juice and garlic to cream. (If you choose to use capers, add them here as well.)
Cook for a minute or so and stir constantly.
Add Cello Grated Romano and stir until incorporated.
Drain cooked pasta and put in pasta bowl. Place chicken on top. Ladle sauce over chicken and pasta.
Serve.
Enjoy… I know we did… The Man even swooned.
Serves 2 plus a cat.
** Cello Grated Romano (Vacchino – made from cow’s milk) is distributed by the Arthur Schuman Company.
Romano is a hard cheese generally used for grating on top of pasta and into salads and sauces. It has a lower water content and the Romano cheese made from cow’s milk is a little milder and less salty than the pecorino version.
Romano cheese is made by a special method called “rummaging curd” which involves draining the curd quickly after molding. The surface is then pierced slightly before the cheese is salted.
It is named after the city of Rome, Italy where it has been made for more than two thousand years.
The Lady and I are very impressed with Cello Romano and she plans to use it next on pizza and then in meatballs… The man and I are grateful she enjoys cooking so much… even though it should be duly noted that I am not thrilled with her “friendliness” toward the interloper who likes to lounge on my deck…
FTC Full Disclosure – The manufacturer/distributor sent me their product, hoping I would review the product/cheese.
Updated 5/14 – The Lady made this using Cello Riserva Parmesan and it, too, was a huge hit here at the manse. Read our review of Cello Riserva.
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