Chicken Florentine

Italian

Chicken Florentine

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Chicken Florentine is Italian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

35 min Medium Low carb Halal

Ingredients

Serves
4

The quantities follow this count.

How to cook it

  1. Halve the chicken breasts horizontally, pound them to an even thickness, season with salt, and dredge in flour.

  2. Heat the olive oil and butter in a skillet over medium-high and cook the chicken until golden and cooked through, about 4 minutes per side, then set aside.

  3. Add the garlic to the pan and cook until fragrant, 30 seconds.

  4. Pour in the chicken broth and cream and simmer until slightly thickened, about 4 minutes.

  5. Stir in the parmesan and lemon juice, then add the spinach and cook until wilted.

  6. Return the chicken to the sauce, spoon it over, and serve.

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Serve it with

A Italian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Chicken Florentine, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Florentine carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Chicken Florentine
Allergen In this dish Cook this instead
Peanuts No
Tree nuts No
Dairy Yes Chicken Cacciatore
Gluten Yes Butternut Squash Risotto
Shellfish No
Eggs No
Soy No
Fish No
Sesame No
Coconut No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories
570 kcal
Protein
46 g
Carbs
10 g
Fat
38 g
Fiber
2 g
Sugar
3 g
Sodium
650 mg
Saturated fat
19 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Chicken Florentine takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.

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