How to saute chicken
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Once you learn how to do it, sauteing chicken is almost as easy as boiling water. The key is to fully cook your chicken, with the outside nicely browned and the inside still tender and juicy. Most mishaps relating to sauteed chicken breast are due to either undercooking (which is dangerous) or over cooking (which results in a chicken breast texture roughly resembling shoe leather).
I always use organic chicken breasts. I find that the flavor is unparalleled and without antibiotics, hormones or animal-based feed, they are the most healthy choice.
Easy and fast and delicious! Low fat, too!
Start with as many breasts as you need (in our family, we only need one to feed me, my husband and our 18-month old daughter), have your seasonings already measured out into a small prep bowl so you don't have to contaminate other containers while dealing with the raw poultry. For this article, I just used a bit of salt and pepper and some garlic powder (not salt!).
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Heat about 1 tbsp. of olive oil in a 12" skillet until just barely smoking. Season both sides of the breast and use tongs to gently lay the breast into the hot oil. Cook on high heat for 3 minutes then turn and cook another 3 minutes, by this point both sides should be golden brown. Reduce heat to med/low and cook chicken covered for another 10 minutes (you may need more time if you're cooking more than one breast, or if the breasts are especially thick). Turn off the heat and leave covered for another 2-3 minutes and allow the meat to rest. Serve with your choice of sides.
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Your superior, PC, health freak attitude is sickening. Go stuff an organic, salt free, cabbage up your nose.
Mike, I'm not entirely sure what you're reacting to in what I wrote above, since the mention of the organic chicken was such a small part of this page. I'm pretty sure you're making some assumptions about me (ie - all people who are health conscious and eat organic are save-the-earth PC bleeding heart liberals)...careful what you assume. I'm not a snob and it's a little sad to me that you felt the need to leave such a grumpy comment on the page of a complete stranger. Don't knock healthy eating just because some of the people who happen to be proponents of it also happen to be giant jackasses who are currently running the country into the ground. :)
Laurag, you are my hero! What a great response!
Great response Laurag!!! I agree with you 100%!
go laurag!
you were just getting trolled hardcore thats all. your just encouraging the troll.
thanks for the info/recipe; going to try now
Hi, back again. This was fabulous! It was the JUICIEST, thoroughly cooked chicken breast I've ever eaten. Served on a bed of watercress, with the drippings, topped with crushed walnuts, and I made a honey cabernet/merlot BBQ reduction (wow, i should share that!) for a dipping sauce.
I was wondering if you know laurag, or anyone knows where to get organic meats without paying an arm and a leg. i dont make much money and Whole Foods Market is very expensive. was hoping for a website since im sure not everyone who looks on this site lives within 5 miles of me. any advice helps.
Adam, I don't know where you live, so I can't give you a website...but in many areas across the country, you'd be able to find a farm that would sell you whole organic chickens in larger #'s. I know several families who basically buy all their organic chicken for the year at once and just freeze it. It's more affordable to buy whole chickens (anywhere, even whole foods) than to buy boneless, skinless breasts (shown in this recipe), and it's quite easy to either butcher a whole chicken or roast whole (there are lots of delicious recipes out there!) and find lots of different ways to use it.
If you look for "community supported agriculture" in your area, you might find some smaller farms that will sell their poultry to you directly.
Hope that helps.
Sarah Seymour says:
15 months ago
Hey this is great low glycmeic meal.
If you want a simple low GI sauce to go with the chicken breast, fry a mdium onion, 2 cloves of garlic unitl brown then add a can of itailian tomatos and fresh basil leaves and simmer for 10 minutes. Add salt and cracked black peeper to taste. Just perfect. :)