Home / General Health Center / News & Info / Article
Chicken Marsala
Serves 4
 
Wine, lemons and mushrooms flavor this chicken recipe the lower-salt and lower-fat way.

Ingredients

1/8 teaspoon black pepper
¼ teaspoon salt
¼ cup flour
4 chicken breasts, boned, skinless (5 ounces total)
1 tablespoon olive oil
½ cup Marsala wine
½ cup chicken stock, fat skimmed from the top
½ lemon, juice only
½ cup sliced mushrooms
1 tablespoon fresh parsley, chopped
 
Directions

   1. Mix together pepper, salt, and flour. Coat chicken with seasoned flour.
   2. In a heavy-bottomed skillet, heat oil. Place chicken breasts in skillet and brown on both sides. Then remove chicken from skillet and set aside.
   3. To the skillet, add wine and stir until the wine is heated. Add juice, stock, and mushrooms. Stir to toss, reduce heat, and cook for about 10 minutes until the sauce is partially reduced.
   4. Return browned chicken breasts to skillet. Spoon sauce over the chicken.
   5. Cover and cook for about 5 to 10 minutes or until chicken is done.
   6. Serve sauce over chicken. Garnish with chopped parsley.

Nutritional Analysis Per Serving

Serving Size: 1 chicken breast with 1/3 cup sauce

Calories
277
Total fat8 g
Saturated fat 2 g
Cholesterol77 mg
Sodium 304 mg

From Keep the Beat Heart Healthy Recipes from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. NIH Publication No. 03-2921, July 2003. NIH Publication No. 03-2921.

  © 2010 MediZine LLC



Article | General Health Health Center.
Article | General Health Health Center.
Article | General Health Health Center.
Article | General Health Health Center.