Lemon Mustard Chicken.

lemon mustard chicken & garlicky green beans

Many years ago I was invited over for dinner by a man I was dating (that man is now my husband, Joe).  He lived in an apartment in Salem and promised to cook me supper for our next date. 

For dinner he made this delicious chicken recipe with a side of asparagus w/ hollandaise sauce (and I'll just mention that the hollandaise sauce was even better the next morning when he made me eggs benedict, hubba hubba).  Yes I said 'the next morning'...but I'm no floozie - I married the guy!  Haha... 

Anyway...back to the chicken.  It was so delicious!!  It was Joe's recipe from a low-cholesterol cookbook that is now out of print.  There are only a few ingredients so I thought I'd alter it to get as close to my diet as possible (the original recipe calls for 1/4C margarine).  I used regular dijon mustard (what we had on hand)  but I'm going to try and find one that doesn't have any sugar in it next time I make it.

Next time I think I might double the sauce (but not the olive oil), which would be easy enough to do.  A touch of honey would bind it very nicely and help it brown at the end of cooking but honey isn't on my plan. 

Here is my version of that sexy man's Lemon Mustard chicken: 

2 whole chicken breasts

3 T dijon mustard
3 T fresh lemon juice
2 T olive oil (or melted butter)
1 tsp dried tarragon
salt & pepper to taste

Preheat oven to 350.  Mix all sauce ingredients in a dish and blend together.  Put chicken in a pyrex dish and pour sauce over it.  Cover with foil and cook for 20 minutes.  Take foil off the dish and turn the oven up to 375.  Cook for an additional 25 minutes, uncovered.

That's it.  My breast were large (heh heh) so you may not need to cook it for the whole 25 minutes - check it after 15 minutes.  Also, if you leave it uncovered the sauce will dry up a bit, which is actually yummy, but covering it for the first half of cooking keeps the chicken moist.  I'm having leftover tomorrow for lunch, over raw baby spinach and brown rice.  YUM!! 

It's lean and it's yummy.  I hope you enjoy it!

Comments

[Kat]

Yum! Thanks for this.