Juicy Pan Seared Hen Breast | Wholesome Dwelling Heaven

Pan seared rooster breast is prepared in lower than half-hour and solely requires rooster breast, butter, and rooster seasoning.

Sear your rooster breast in slightly butter over excessive warmth for only a few minutes earlier than flipping it and turning the warmth down barely to complete cooking.

Pan seared rooster breast is hands-down one in all my favourite chicken breast recipes! I really like you can get tremendous juicy rooster on the stovetop in lower than an hour.

I grew up consuming numerous rooster breast (hello, Mother!) as a result of it’s excessive in protein and fairly easy to prepare dinner. My mother usually pan seared our rooster breast and as we speak I’m sharing her technique, however making it our personal.

The key? Sear your rooster breast over excessive warmth for only a few minutes earlier than turning it right down to medium warmth to complete cooking. This gives you a stunning golden-brown exterior, with a brilliant juicy inside.

What You Want For This Straightforward Hen Breast Recipe

• Boneless, skinless rooster breast: The standard of the rooster breast you buy makes an enormous totally different in taste and textual content. If attainable, buy high-quality natural, free-range rooster breast.
• Fats: rooster breast is a really lean protein with little fats. Our secret to tremendous tasty rooster breast is slightly little bit of butter.
• Seasoning: this rooster breast recipe recipe makes use of our well-known chicken seasoning that includes garlic powder, chili powder, floor mustard, and salt.
• Nonstick pan: as a result of rooster breast is so lean, a nonstick pan is your finest good friend! In case you don’t have nonstick, a forged iron pan works excellent as nicely.

Variations and Ingredient Swaps

Since this pan seared rooster recipe is fairly easy, there are actually solely 2 issues you possibly can change up — fats and seasoning.

Fats: We favor the style and taste of butter and it additionally helps it turn into golden brown. Nevertheless, I’ve additionally made this rooster with each olive oil and avocado oil.

Seasoning: that is the place you possibly can actually make your rooster breast your personal. Listed below are some concepts for seasoning swaps:

Ought to I tenderize my rooster breast earlier than cooking?

We extremely advocate utilizing a meat tenderizer to pound your rooster to equal thickness all through earlier than pan frying. The rationale we advocate that is to verify it cooks evenly. Hen breasts can fluctuate in measurement; a part of your rooster may very well be 2.5 inches thick and different elements may very well be 1 inch thick.

Place rooster breast on a chopping board and canopy them with parchment paper. Then, use a meat tenderizer to pound rooster breast till it’s even all through.

PS: The extra you pound it, the sooner it would prepare dinner. We pounded our rooster breast till it was about 1 to 1.5-inches thick.

Storage

Retailer cooked rooster in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 3-5 days.

To reheat: place rooster breast on a microwave-safe plate and microwave on excessive for 60-90 seconds.

Are you able to freeze cooked rooster?

Let rooster breast cool utterly. Then, switch cooked rooster breast right into a freezer-safe gallon-size bag and take away as a lot air as attainable. Seal and freeze for as much as 3 months.

To prepare dinner from frozen: let your rooster breast thaw within the fridge in a single day. Then, place rooster breast on a microwave-safe plate and microwave on excessive for 60-90 seconds.

What to Serve with Hen Breast

The wonderful thing about this fashion of rooster breast is that it’s so versatile. Listed below are some serving concepts to actually one up your meal!

• Add it to soup: use two forks to shred the rooster breast after which add it to soup. Strive our Minestrone, Black Bean Soup, Simple Green Chili, Chicken Quinoa Soup.
• Tacos: Taco evening is my favourite evening of the week! Make a walking taco or observe our recipe for salsa chicken tacos and use your stovetop rooster because the shredded rooster!
• Serve it subsequent to veggies: Maintain issues tremendous fundamental and serve this pan seared rooster subsequent to your favourite greens. We advise our roasted red potatoes, crispy sweet potato fries, or roasted asparagus.
• Salad, Salad, Salads: Whether or not you need to make chicken salad, quinoa salad, or Mexican street corn salad, you possibly can both shred or cube your rooster and add it to any salad!
• Slice it and add it to a bowl: Received leftovers? Add your pan fried rooster to any rice bowl! Strive it in our: Mediterranean Buddha bowls, harvest grain bowls, taco bowls.