Italian
Chicken Florentine
Chicken Florentine is Italian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1/3 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1/2 cup grated parmesan
- 5 cups baby spinach
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1 tbsp lemon juice
- 1/2 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Halve the chicken breasts horizontally, pound them to an even thickness, season with salt, and dredge in flour.
- Heat the olive oil and butter in a skillet over medium-high and cook the chicken until golden and cooked through, about 4 minutes per side, then set aside.
- Add the garlic to the pan and cook until fragrant, 30 seconds.
- Pour in the chicken broth and cream and simmer until slightly thickened, about 4 minutes.
- Stir in the parmesan and lemon juice, then add the spinach and cook until wilted.
- Return the chicken to the sauce, spoon it over, and serve.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Florentine carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Chicken Cacciatore |
| Gluten | Yes | Butternut Squash Risotto |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Grains, Dairy, and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Chicken Florentine takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, spinach, and cream.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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