Macaroni Grill Recipe Secret

We took an unplanned hiatus from blogging - although not from cooking. I have a backlog of things to post. I'll get started with the recipe that came "in the mail".  I bought a cookbook at the Little River Elementary school book fair America's Most Wanted Recipes. Recipes from major chain restaurants. Well, not the actual recipes, knock offs, but very close. Wanting to do something different for dinner, I made this one. I thought it would be too lemony with the amount of lemon juice it called for. I cut the lemon juice in half and upped the white wine. Even with that, the sauce still had 'pucker' to it. I've never had the original MG version.


MACARONI GRILL'S SCALOPPINE di POLLO
Lemon Butter Sauce:
  4 ounces lemon juice
  2 ounces white wine
  4 ounces heavy cream
  1 pound (4 sticks) butter

6 to 8 (3-ounce) chicken breasts, pounded thin
Oil and butter for sauteing chicken
1/2 to 3/4 cup flour, seasoned with salt and pepper, for dredging
6 ounces pancetta, cooked
12 ounces mushrooms, sliced
12 ounces artichoke hearts, sliced
1 tablespoon capers
1 pound cappellini pasta, cooked
Chopped parsley, for garnish

To make the sauce: Heat the lemon juice and white wine in a
saucepan over medium heat. Bring to a boil and reduce by one-third.
Add cream and simmer until mixture thickens (3 to 4 minutes).
Slowly add butter until completely incorporated. Season with salt
and pepper. Remove from heat and keep warm.

To make chicken and pasta: Cook pasta and drain. Heat a small
amount of oil and two tablespoons butter in a large skillet. Dredge
chicken in flour and saute in pan, turning once, until brown and
cooked through. Remove chicken from pan and add to pan remaining
ingredients. Heat until mushrooms soften and are cooked; add
chicken back to pan.

To serve: Place cooked pasta on each plate. Add half of butter
sauce to chicken mixture and toss. Taste and adjust, adding more
sauce if needed. Place chicken mixture over pasta. Garnish with
parsley. Alternately, mix pasta and chicken mixture together. Toss
with butter sauce.

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