500g of butter or margarine
1.5 cups of Extra Virgin Olive Oil. (Make sure it is
fairly light-flavored oil, otherwise the oil will overwhelm
the butter taste)
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2 packages of chicken breasts
1 cup canola oil for sautéing chicken, maybe
more
1/3 cup canola oil
1 3 ¼ ounce jar capers
3 lemons
1 cup dry white wine
3 to 4 cloves of garlic, crushed
1 cup parsley
2 cups flour
salt and pepper to taste
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- Beat the butter in a food processor or Mixmaster
until softened, then gradually add the olive oil.
- When it is all completely blended, it will be
quite pourable.
I pour it into 500 ml containers and put lids on,
then store them in the fridge.
- When cold it is quite hard.
Variations: You can add some milk to make it go a
bit further - up to 1/4 cup for this quantity. We
make winter and summer blends too. The recipe above
is for winter. In summer I use only 1 cup of olive
oil, because the spread becomes too soft when it is
left out in warm weather."
Margaret Chidgey, editor of the journal of the Australian
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- Cut each chicken breast into four pieces. Place
chicken in Ziploc bags and sprinkle a little water
in each bag. Close bag and pound on meat with a
metal or wooden meat tenderizer until it has spread
and has thinned (make sure you do not fill bags
to capacity leave some space for meat to
expand when pounding).
- Refrigerate chicken overnight.
- Take chicken out of Ziploc bags and dip each piece
into flour. Arrange chicken into a large frying
pan with 1 cup oil, and sauté until chicken
turns golden brown. Remove chicken from frying pan
and arrange in an oven pan (size of pan depends
on quantity of chicken).
- Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Pour over chicken
1/3 cup of canola oil, one cup water, juice of 3
lemons, capers, wine, and crushed garlic.
- Bake for 40 minutes or until most of the juice
is gone. Sprinkle with parsley five minutes before
removing pan from oven.
- Serve chicken piccata with rice pilaf or orzo
"yiouvetzi" and Greek salad.
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