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.
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This sounds very good! So many recipes call for smoked paprika and I look in all our grocery stores and no one seems to carry. Do I need to go to a kitchen store or maybe whole foods?/Trader Joes doesn’t have it. Thanks
Amazon.com carries it! 🙂
East Indian grocers usually carry the smoked paprika. Sometimes Mexican grocers as well
Kroger has it! Wonderful recipe!
I get most of my spices, including Smoked Paprika, from Penzey’s…they seem to be fairly priced. If I need a particular ingredient right away (and if you’re in the South), Fresh Market has lots of spices in bulk.
Believe it or not. … I find smoked paprika at our Walmart….
I got smoked paprika at walmart
Costco has it.
Penzey’s
I found my smoked paprika at Walmart seems to be readily available here but I’m in upstate NY good luck!
This sounds like Cajun chicken pasta except without mushrooms.
This was easy and delicious. Made this last night because I was too tired to cook anything else. It came together in a flash. This is my kind of recipe. Thank you.
This sounds wonderful… Easy and delish! Can’t wait to make it!
Did you pound the chicken?
There was no need to pound the chicken as I cut the chicken breast crosswise in half. But as always, please do what is most comfortable for you.
Can’t wait to try the sauce!!! But could you explain “cut crosswise in half?” It looks like two whole chicken breasts in the photo. The chicken breasts we get here in the organic market are about 1 pound each. How do you get 4 servings from one of these?
Here is a great tutorial to cut a chicken breast piece in half crosswise. 1 pound should yield about 4 chicken pieces once they are cut crosswise.
I was confused by the cutting instructions as well. So I looked it up. The way you’re saying you want us to cut the breasts is really “lengthwise”, not “crosswise”. It may be more clear to people if you say to butterfly or filet the breasts so we have two thin “twin” pieces. Crosswise is to cut across. Lengthwise is to cut the length of.
Betsy, you can refer to this tutorial:
http://www.popsugar.com/food/photo-gallery/5911271/image/5911278/Cut-larger-chicken-breast-piece-half-crosswise
I see that your link does say “crosswise”, but they are, in fact, cutting “lengthwise”.
It should say ‘cut through the middle’ as in butterflied but making two thin separate pieces.
Mmmm boy oh boy that sauce is to die for. Made it just like you said. I’m not really into to chicken beasts but I really enjoyed the recipe Put chicken legs in front of me and I’m in heaven. Love your site by the way
regards Peter
Thank you for the nice recipe
Sorry to reply on your comment Liz, but I cant find where to add a new comment.
Am I the only one who is not seeing the cream sauce part of the recipe? Other comments mention “cut crosswise in half” and I’m not seeing that either. Seems like I’m missing a big part of the recipe/directions.
Please refer to the ingredient list and step 5, respectively:
1 pound boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut crosswise in half
5. 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.
Do u add the spice to the cream sauce or just what’s left in the pan after cooking the chicken kinda thing ?? And is normal paprika gonna be ok ? Cause that’s all I have
You want to use up the brown bits from the bottom of the pan – that’s where all the flavors are sitting. And yes, regular paprika is fine.
I find that cream isn’t mentioned in your ingredients list odd and the recipe then becomes hard to follow as your adding in imaginary ingredients… I’m clearly not the only one confused by this.
“Cream” is not used in this recipe. Half and half is used instead. If you do not know what half and half is, please refer to the footnote of the recipe as it is explained there.
I am also confused about your comment as there are no imaginary ingredients. Please read through the recipe at least twice to further clarify your confusion. Thanks!
Has anyone ever tried coconut cream with this recipe?