Lemon Herbed Chicken Recipe - Cooking Index
The ancient Greeks were the first to discover chicken's splendid possibilities for the banquet table. The Mediterranean landscape of Greece is rich with the fragrant lemons and herbs that are essential to Greek cooking. Serve Lemon Herbed Chicken with Greek pasta (Orzo) and a green salad topped with Feta cheese. For dessert, serve another specialty of the Greek Isles, honey-drenched Baklava.
Type: Chicken, Poultry1 | Chicken - (abt 3 lbs) - cut up | |
Salt - to taste | ||
Freshly-ground black pepper - to taste | ||
2 tablespoons | 30ml | Vegetable or olive oil - (to 4) |
1 | Onion - chopped | |
1 tablespoon | 15ml | Chopped garlic |
1 cup | 237ml | Chicken broth |
1/4 cup | 59ml | Lemon juice |
1 cup | 146g / 5.1oz | Chopped parsley |
1/2 cup | 55g / 1.9oz | Chopped celery leaves |
2 teaspoons | 10ml | Chopped fresh oregano |
= (or 1 tspn dry oregano) | ||
1 teaspoon | 5ml | Chopped fresh basil |
= (or 1/2 tspn dry basil) | ||
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1 cup | 237ml | Pitted black olives |
2 tablespoons | 30ml | Flour |
2 tablespoons | 30ml | Cold water |
Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. Heat oil in a 4- or 6-quart pressure cooker. Saute onion and garlic until tender; remove. Brown chicken a few pieces at a time; set aside.
Return all chicken to pressure cooker with onion and garlic. Add remaining ingredients except black olives, flour, and cold water.
Close pressure cooker cover securely. Place pressure regulator on vent pipe. Cook for 8 minutes, at 15 pounds pressure, with regulator rocking slowly. Cool pressure cooker at once. Remove chicken to a warm dish.
Add olives to liquid and heat. Blend together flour and cold water; add to hot broth. Cook and stir liquid until thickened. Pour sauce over chicken.
This recipe yields 4 to 6 servings.
Source:
National Presto Industries at http://www.presto-net.com
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