Our family is always on the hunt for delicious dinners that come together quickly. I love having a dinner on the table that rivals any of our local restaurants when it comes to flavor. This lemon pepper chicken recipe does just that. It is on the table in 35 minutes but has the most delicious lemony sauce. If you aren’t used to eating lemon flavored savory meals, please try this amazing chicken recipe. You will fall in love.
How to Make Lemon Pepper Chicken
This is just a brief overview of this great chicken dinner. For the full recipe with all of the measurements and more detailed instructions, make sure you scroll to the bottom of the post.
Lemon Pepper Seasoning
Lemon pepper seasoning is something commonly found in grocery stores in the Untied States. It is literally made of dehydrated lemon peel (or lemon oil) and black pepper. Sometimes it also has garlic and onion in it. Because this isn’t something that is readily available world wide, I wanted to make a recipe that everyone can enjoy, regardless of where you live. In this lemon pepper chicken recipe we are getting the great flavor a few different places. First, we are add lemon zest, black pepper, and salt to the flour the chicken is dredged in. Next, we add butter, garlic, and lemon to the chicken stock to make the sauce. The end result is the perfect lemon pepper taste that you are dreaming of.
Cutting Chicken into Cutlets
Chicken cutlets make for a very fast dinner recipe. Cutlets are made by cutting a chicken breast in half. Using a very sharp knife, you butterfly the breast open and then finish by cutting it all the way through. Chicken cutlets can be purchased at the butcher counter, but given how large chicken breasts are these days, I prefer to buy a pound of chicken (usually two large breasts) and cut them myself. You can see how we do this below.
Dredging Chicken
Dredging chicken in flour before sautéing it in a skillet is like a cheaters way of breading it. Rather than doing flour, egg, and breading steps, we simply add a bit of flour around the chicken to get a nice coating in the skillet. This is a great resource on the difference between dredging and breading.
Serving Lemon Pepper Chicken
We love having this as lemon pepper chicken pasta by serving it over angel hair pasta. You could certainly keep this as a lower carb meal by serving this without pasta, or with zucchini noodles. In that case, I would recommend making a vegetable dish and a salad to go with dinner. You can find a few suggestions right above the recipe card below.
What to Serve with Lemon Pepper Chicken
As mentioned above, we love this recipe over angel hair pasta. But if you want to make a low carb meal, you will want to skip the pasta and grab one (or all!) of these recipes.
Mashed Cauliflower: This recipe would be absolutely delicious over mashed cauliflower.Air Fryer Broccoli would be a perfect easy side dish for this recipe. Tomato Bisque: Our creamy tomato bisque would be a fantastic balance to the flavors in this.Caesar Salad would accompany this dish in the most magical way.
If you make my lemon pepper chicken recipe, or any of my other recipes, let me know what you think! I love hearing how my recipes become part of your family dinners.
