Salvatore Scallopini Recipes

CHICKEN TOSCA

Steps:

• Butterfly chicken breasts so they are thin.
• Lightly season with salt and pepper.
• Dust chicken breasts with flour.
• Combine whole eggs and romano cheese to form a batter.
• (you don't want a thick batter as it will coat and burn if too thick.) Fry chicken and mushrooms until golden brown.
• Add garlic and saute 1 minute.
• Season with additional salt and pepper to taste.
• Transfer chicken to platter.
• Add butter to the skillet.
• When melted add wine and lemon juice.
• Add cream and cook over high heat until sauce begins to thicken.
• Return chicken to skillet and heat.
• Serve immediately.
• Sprinkle additional grated romano cheese over chicken if desired.

SCALOPPINE WITH ANY MEAT

Steps:

• Season cutlets with salt and pepper. Melt butter in a large skillet over high heat. Add cutlets and cook quickly, about 1 minute per side. Transfer cutlets to a plate.
• Return skillet to low heat. Add garlic and cook, swirling the pan, until you can smell it. Squeeze in the lemon or lime juice and season with salt and pepper. Spoon over cutlets and serve.

CHICKEN SCALLOPINI

Steps:

• In a small bowl, stir together the garlic and butter until well combined. Set aside. Place a chicken breast half on a work surface with the thick side facing to the right (if you're right-handed), and place your left hand down on the chicken breast. Using a very sharp knife, carefully cut the chicken breast from the thick side to about 1/2 inch from the edge of the thin side, in a horizontal cut. Open the cut chicken breast and spread it out like an open book. Using a meat mallet, gently pound the butterflied chicken breast out until it's an even thickness.
• Place the flour into a shallow dish, and dredge each chicken breast on both sides with flour. Melt the garlic butter in a large skillet over medium heat until it stops foaming, and cook each chicken breast until golden brown on both sides, 6 to 8 minutes per side. Sprinkle each breast with salt and pepper. Remove the chicken breasts to a platter, and keep warm.
• Cook and stir the mushrooms in the same skillet as the chicken until the mushrooms have absorbed the remaining butter in the skillet and have begun to turn brown at the edges. Stir in capers, lemon juice, white wine, and chicken demi-glace, and stir to combine. Reduce to a simmer. Adjust salt and pepper again, and stir the parsley into the sauce.
• Remove the chicken breasts to plates, and serve the sauce over the chicken. Garnish each serving with a lemon slice.