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Pepper-Crusted Chicken

Pepper-Crusted Chicken — a chicken recipe, 5 ingredients.

Chicken

contains meat

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Ingredients

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  • 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
  • Olive oil
  • Salt
  • ½ cup cracked black peppercorns
  • ¼ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice

Steps

  1. Brush chicken with olive oil. Sprinkle both sides liberally with salt.
  2. Place pepper in a pie pan. Dredge chicken in black pepper. Let rest for 2–3 minutes.
  3. Heat a large cast iron skillet over high heat. Pour in about 2 tbsp olive oil.
  4. Add chicken and cook 2 minutes per side, or until browned on both sides.
  5. Insert an oven-safe probe thermometer into one of the chicken breasts. Bake, pan and all, at 375°F until internal temperature reaches 165°F.
  6. Remove chicken from pan and keep warm. Deglaze pan with lemon juice and drizzle over chicken. Serve warm.

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Source

Wikibooks Cookbook — adapted under CC BY-SA 3.0