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    Home » Recipes » Chicken and Turkey

    Chicken and Asparagus in White Wine Sauce

    Published: May 23, 2012 · Modified: Jan 16, 2013 by Coleen · This post may contain affiliate links.

    After graduating from college with the "Freshman 15" still hanging on, I opted to try the South Beach Diet to lose the weight. It worked really well for me (I am not being paid to mention the South Beach Diet, nor suggesting it will work for anyone; just stating that it happened to work for me), and opened me up to new ingredients and flavors. 

    You see, my childhood meals consisted of the same three proteins: chicken, beef and pork; and the same four vegetables: corn, carrots, broccoli and spinach. So cooking the recipes provided in the South Beach Diet cookbook introduced me to new flavors that I likely wouldn't have tried otherwise, such as asparagus, which has become my new favorite vegetable. 

    On a recent trek to Trader Joe's, I bought a package of big, fat asparagus spears. A week or so prior, while paging through an old Cooking Light magazine, I found this chicken and asparagus recipe that sounded good. It has only 289 calories and 8 grams of fat per serving. My usual method of preparing asparagus was to drench it in olive oil, so I was eager to try a new method of preparation. 

    I really enjoyed the recipe's flavors, although, even after cooking it down, the "sauce" is very thin (though still tasty). Next time, I will probably thicken it up with flour or cornstarch. 

    Chicken and Asparagus in White Wine Sauce
    Source: Cooking Light

    Ingredients

    • 4 (6-ounce) boneless, skinless chicken breasts
    • ¾ teaspoon salt
    • ¼ teaspoon fresh black pepper
    • 2 tablespoon unsalted butter
    • ½ cup all-purpose flour
    • ½ cup dry white wine*
    • ½ cup fat-free, low-sodium chicken stock
    • 2 garlic cloves, minced
    • 1 pound asparagus spears, trimmed
    • 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

    Directions

    1. Pound the chicken with a meat mallet or small skillet to ¼-inch thickness. Season with the salt and pepper. 
    2. Melt the flour in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Coat the chicken in a thin layer of flour, place in the skillet and cook for about 3 minutes on each side, or until fully cooked. Remove to a plate and keep warm. 
    3. Add the wine, broth and garlic to the skillet, scraping the bottom of the skillet to loosen any brown bits. 
    4. Cook the liquid for two minutes to reduce. 
    5. Add the asparagus spears, cover the skillet and cook for about 3 minutes (less if your asparagus spears are thinner), until tender but still crisp. Remove the skillet from the heat, and stir in lemon juice. 
    6. Plate chicken and asparagus, spoon sauce over chicken. 
    * If you prefer not to cook with alcohol, omit white wine and double the amount of chicken broth. 

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