Chicken Lazone
Chicken breasts pan-fried in butter and a homemade seasoning mix with the most amazingly, out-of-this-world cream sauce! And it’s so easy!
The new house is slowly, but surely, coming together. I have no office or table just yet, nor a dining table or sofa, but the kitchen should be fully operational by tomorrow.
Now this is the last recipe I shot at the old house, and we definitely ended with a bang.
I mean with a cream sauce like this, you can’t go wrong. You just can’t.
Now I’ll let you decide what you want to do with that cream sauce.
Whether you want to guzzle it down, slurp it with a spoon, or put it over a bed of pasta, it is completely 100% up to you. There’s no judgments here. I promise.
Chicken Lazone
Ingredients
- 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut crosswise in half
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided
- 1 pound linguine
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 2 cups half and half*
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley leaves
For the seasoning
- 2 teaspoons smoked paprika
- ½ teaspoon garlic powder
- ½ teaspoon onion powder
- ½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
- ½ teaspoon dried oregano
- ½ teaspoon dried basil
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste
Instructions
- To make the seasoning, combine paprika, garlic powder, onion powder, cayenne pepper, oregano and basil in a small bowl; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- In a gallon size Ziploc bag, add chicken, olive oil and paprika mixture, shaking to coat thoroughly.
- Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium high heat. Add chicken and cook, flipping once, until cooked through, about 4-5 minutes on each side. Set aside and keep warm.
- In a large pot of boiling salted water, cook pasta according to package instructions; drain well.
- Melt remaining 2 tablespoons butter in the skillet. Add garlic, and cook, stirring frequently, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Gradually whisk in half and half until slightly thickened, about 4-5 minutes; season with salt and pepper, to taste.
- Stir in pasta and gently toss to combine.
- Serve immediately with chicken, garnished parsley, if desired.
Notes
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I can’t wait to make this dish but please tell me when to add the seasoning. Thx.
Please refer to the first step.
I’m sorry, I only see where you combine the seasonings but after reading it several times and also asking a friend to interpret, I don’t see where you add it to anything…so strange because I see many people have made it.
I can’t wait to make this dish but please tell me when to add the seasoning. Thx.
It is utilized in the second step:
In a gallon size Ziploc bag, add chicken, olive oil and paprika mixture, shaking to coat thoroughly.
I stumbled on this recipe looking for something new to do with my chicken. It. Was. Amazing! I’m a total fan and I can’t wait to try some of your other dishes. Only thing I changed was I used gluten free pasta.
this was a big hit with my family and I am going to make it again tonight. I only have light cream, how can i adjust to make it work?
You can substitute the light cream for half and half.
I generally love your dishes but this was just not good for me. I followed the recipe to the letter. The sauce was soupy, there was far more pasta than I needed, not enough chicken and the flavors just didn’t do it for me. I’m pretty disappointed.
I’m sorry that this recipe did not turn out the way you had imagined. I only post recipes that have been successfully tested in my own kitchen, and as you can see from the comments here, many of these readers have had great outcomes in the final dish as well. However, I understand that we all have different taste preferences, and I really appreciate your honest feedback.
Made this tonight for my husband who recently had a total gastrectomy. He lived the taste and it went down really well! Thanks for sharing.
I tried this one Oh so Good ! Ty
Everything you make is so damn delicious!! Can’t wait for your cookbook!
Just finished eating this tonight for dinner; NO leftovers!! Even my 1 year old loved it!! I didn’t have cayenne pepper, so I substituted chili powder, still tasted great! The sauce definitely has a Marsala kind of feel to it; and I will be adding mushrooms next time, in the sauce. 10 stars for sure and in the rotation!
It looks so amazing…this recipe is the end of my diet! 😀 I will prepare it asap <3
Lovely recipe. Thank you very much for sharing. The combination is very much my style so I would do my best to try it and share with you!
Hi! I made this recipe last night but i misread the part about the amount of half and half, so, whoopsy! But i will definitely make again but maybe with chicken thighs next time ☺
I usually have quite success with Pinterest recipes, but for whatever reason, this one was a total miss…. Idk where I went wrong, but not even when I grilled the chicken breasts did they even look remotely similar to yours ☹️ Luckily my twins can stand spicy foods & helped eat up the chicken. The sauce was a total miss all by itself. Thank you tho for sharing. I’m glad others had success with it
I’m sorry that this recipe did not turn out the way you had imagined. I only post recipes that have been successfully tested in my own kitchen, and as you can see from the comments here, many of these readers have had great outcomes in the final dish as well.
So I must ask – did you follow the recipe exactly as written without any substitutions?
How far in advance can you make this not the pasta of course but the chicken and sauce?
I would say no more than a few days but as always, please use your best judgment.
Excellent! Used boneless/skinless thighs otherwise per recipe. I cook for one with scrumptious leftovers. Your recipes are the best.
This recipe looks so delicious! Tried it last night for my husband and I, but served the sauce with sauteed red potatoes instead of pasta. It started off well, but my darn chicken breasts never cooked all the way through. They kept getting blacker and sticking to the pan, so after a while I took them out and they were still only about 160 degrees. Popped them in the microwave to finish cooking and they finally went from pink to white in the center, but they definitely seemed a bit dry/rubbery. So sad after all my hard work.
I will for sure give this recipe another attempt – maybe in the oven next time. It smelled so delicious! My husband still loved his leftovers today for lunch 🙂
I had the same issue with the pan, but I finished them off in the oven. I started the noodles after I put the breasts in the oven. By the time the sauce and noodles were done and combined the breasts were done.
Love this over mashed potatoes! Yum!
That sounds amazing!
This was one of the best chicken recipes!! The sauce is amazing! Keep up the good work!
This was amazing! But one issue I had was that I couldn’t get the sauce to thicken with just half and half. Not sure how that is supposed to work. Generally you would need to add flour or cornstarch to thicken a sauce. Was that step missing? I tried for a while with just the half and half and finally started adding flour.
Otherwise it was a great recipe and I will make it again!
Thank you for trying my recipe! You can add cornstarch as needed until the desired consistency is reached. Hope that helps!
Thanks! Made this, loved it!
So delicious! We all loved it!