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Recipe by Estee Kafra

Chicken Strips with Balsamic Cranberry Sauce

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Meat Meat
Easy Easy
10 Servings
Allergens

No Allergens specified

Balsamic vinegar adds kick to this fruity sauce.  Served over molded rice, this dish is elegant, succulent, and even low-fat.  Aleh Mailehs!

Ingredients

Chicken Cutlets

  • 2 pounds (1 kilogram) chicken cutlets, cut into strips

  • 1 teaspoon salt, to taste

  • 1/8 teaspoon black pepper, or to taste

Reduction

Directions

For the Chicken Cutlets

1.

Place chicken strips in a medium-sized bowl. Add salt and pepper and mix well to coat.

2.

Preheat oven to 400°F (200°C).

3.

Put the chicken pieces in a 9- x 13-inch baking pan. Bake in preheated oven for 10 minutes or until chicken strips are cooked through. Remove from oven.

4.

Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a large skillet. Sauté chicken pieces over medium heat for 1½ – 2 minutes on each side. After the first shift, spray the pan with cooking spray and repeat until all pieces are done.

For the Balsamic Reduction

1.

Meanwhile, in the same skillet, heat remaining olive oil. Sauté shallot until just translucent.

2.

Add nectar, vinegar, and cranberry sauce and whisk together, stirring to loosen any browned bits from pan. Bring to a boil; cook until liquid is reduced by almost half. This intensifies the flavor.

Notes:

Shallots are part of the onion family and have a mild onion-garlic flavor. You can sub finely chopped onion with a tad of crushed garlic.

To Assemble

1.

Pour 2/3 of the sauce over the chicken pieces and return to the oven for 5–10 minutes, just until the flavor is absorbed. Don’t overdo it because sauce will evaporate and pieces will get dried out.

2.

Serve reserved sauce over chicken and rice.

Tips:

You can freeze leftover cranberry sauce for future use. 

Notes:

This dish can be frozen. If you choose to freeze, I recommend doing so after the initial baking — just pour the sauce over and don’t heat through in the oven. Heat it before serving, after it defrosts.
Chicken Strips with Balsamic Cranberry Sauce

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Aviva Kohn
Aviva Kohn
6 years ago

Substitute Is there something I can substitute the cranberry nectar or possibly just leave it out if I don’t have such a thing?

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Cnooymow{shman
Cnooymow{shman
Reply to  Aviva Kohn
6 years ago

How about cranberry juice?