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Chicken Scallopini with Lemon Butter Pasta on a white plate.

One of the great things about being a food blogger is that I am constantly exposed to all kinds of recipes.  I read a lot of food blogs daily and I have learned so much about food preparation this year since I started blogging.  I always enjoy eating good food but I wasn’t as knowledgeable last year about all kinds of recipes, cooking techniques and how to present food deliciously.

Chicken Scallopini with Lemon Butter Pasta on a white plate.

As I pick up cooking tips and adore food photos, I also learn a lot of quick meal recipes from others.  One of my go to recipes when my life gets too hectic is pasta dish.  The other day when I was checking my foodie friend Fern’s blog To Food with Love, I learned about this Chicken Scallopini.  I have never prepared chicken this way and I was intrigued to try.  I used chicken tenders because kids can easily break apart the meat and eat on their own.  This is a perfect weeknight meal if you are running out time to prepare dinner and it’s delicious!  Enjoy!

Chicken Scallopini with Lemon Butter Pasta on a fork.

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Chicken Scallopini with Lemon Butter Pasta
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Prep Time
10 mins
Cook Time
30 mins
Total Time
40 mins
 
Course: Main Course
Servings: 2
Ingredients
  • 6 chicken breast tenders
  • Kosher salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
  • 2-3 servings spaghetti
  • ½ onion
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 6 apple wood bacon slices
  • 5 strings thymes (fresh)
  • 6 mushrooms
  • 10 cherry tomatoes
  • 1 cup heavy cream or heavy whipping cream
  • 2 Tbsp unsalted butterr
  • ½ lemon (squeezed)
  • Kosher salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper
Instructions

  1. Gather all the ingredients.

    Chicken Scallopini with Lemon Butter Pasta Ingredients
  2. Pound the chicken tenders with meat pounder to flatten them. Season them with salt and pepper. Diced onion and bacon into small pieces and slice garlic.
    Chicken Scallopini with Lemon Butter Pasta 1
  3. Start boiling water to cook pasta in a large pot. When the pasta is cooked, drain water but please remember to keep ½ cup of the water that was used to cook the pasta. Set aside if the pasta sauce is not cooked yet.
  4. Meanwhile in a large frying pan, heat olive oil on medium heat. Fry the chicken on both sides until slightly browned. Transfer onto a plate and set aside.
    Chicken Scallopini with Lemon Butter Pasta 2
  5. In the same frying pan, sauté the onions and garlic for 1-2 minutes.
    Chicken Scallopini with Lemon Butter Pasta 3
  6. Add the bacon and cook until onions become translucent.
    Chicken Scallopini with Lemon Butter Pasta 4
  7. Add the thyme and mushrooms and sauté until mushrooms become soft.
    Chicken Scallopini with Lemon Butter Pasta 5
  8. Add the tomatoes, cream, butter, and lemon juice. Bring it to a simmer and season with salt and pepper to taste. If you add bacon, it’s already salty so be careful not to make it too salty (keep in mind the pasta will make the sauce more bland). Remove from heat.
    Chicken Scallopini with Lemon Butter Pasta 7
  9. By this time pasta is cooked already, so add the pasta in the pan and toss it in the creamy sauce. Slowly stir in the pasta water to loosen up and thin out the sauce.
  10. Add the chicken to the pan and toss lightly so that chicken will warm up. Serve the pasta on the serving plates, top with the chicken and sauce. Garnish with arugula and sprinkle grated Parmesan cheese. Serve immediately.
Recipe Notes

Adapted from To Food With Love.

 

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  3. Caroline

    Hi Nami

    This look great. I will cook this for this weekend lunch. I really love all the photos on your blog. Can you please let me know what camera do you use?

    Thanks.

    Caroline

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    • Thank you Caroline! I use Canon T2i with 50mm f1.4 lens and Tamron 60mm f2.0 macro lens for most of the pictures featured on the website.

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  4. I usually thing of a scallopini being breaded and pan fried, but I like that yours is browned in a skillet, making it much healthier. I really like that the sauce looks like it lightly coats the noodles too. This really is a great weeknight meal that would leave everyone satisfied!

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    • I actually didn’t know why it’s called “scallopini” in the beginning too. For those of you who don’t know what it means…

      Accoring to Wiki, Scaloppine (plural and diminutive of scaloppa – a small scallop, i.e., a thinly sliced cut of meat) (in English usage scaloppini; sometimes scallopini) is an Italian dish consisting of thinly sliced meat (most often veal, although chicken may also be used) that is dredged in wheat flour, sautéed, then heated and served with a tomato-, or wine-sauce; or piccata, which denotes a caper and lemon sauce.

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      • Perfect explanation, except as usual in translation scaloppine (the correct plural word for scaloppina – singular) became scaloppini. Sorry Nami but this is one of our Italian pet peeves, we just get crazy at all the Es turned into Is!

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        • I’m glad you told us. We probably think if we end the word with “i”, it becomes Italian. lol. I rather want to know what’s right. Thanks! I totally understand as I see so many weird Japanese here…

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  8. Oh, my gosh, your photos are just stunning…love that last one especially! I haven’t mastered focusing and getting my hand in the photo yet…did your hubby help? If not, I’m truly impressed!!!! This looks like a fabulous dish…one my family would enjoy (as long as I ate every mushroom…yum!).

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    • I always use a tripod and set a timer for the last shot. I hold the fork and focus first then set timer for 2 secs. 🙂 I can’t move so it’s a bit tricky.

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  9. I like to pan fry chicken breast this way too, just season with pepper and salt, but for me I add to noodle soup instead, next time I will try to add on pasta .

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  13. Nami everything you touch is magic. Your recipes, photos, and food styling are off the charts! The Food Network should be knocking on your door anyday. Absolutely jaw-dropping.

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  16. Eri

    Hello Nami! I love pasta but my husband is not exactly the pasta guy.. this recipe is great, but when I’ll make it I’ll skip on the butter. I’m really excited that my name is common on Japan haha, it’s not so common in Greece..! Thank you so much for visiting my blog, I really appreciate it!

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  21. Growing up in an Italian family I was spoiled with dishes like this almost every night of the week 🙂 You did a great job making this, and now I’m craving a big plate of scallopini!

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  22. Lovely pasta recipe and absolutely gorgeous pictures. Your food styling is really impressive!

    Btw I’m a bit late…but loved the tandoori chicken puffs recipe too!

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  24. Nami, your blog becomes so international I will not be surprise if one day you publish an Icelandic recipe 😉
    This pasta looks gorgeous and your presentation is as always so perfect that I wish I saw a pasta dish as well presented at least once in a restaurant! You could give lessons to many chefs. I also see that your pasta is al dente (at least it looks like). This is also the way I prefer it.

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    • Haha not so international… I wish though. I cook way too much Japanese food and my kids are not so used to other food. Yes, I’m very cautious that my pasta is always al dente!! MUST!

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  27. Love the lemon butter sauce with pasta, yes. Your photos always make me hungry. Thanks for the photo techniques I read on some of the comments. Very helpful.

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  28. Last night after basketball I tried to just go straight to bed. Around midnight I found myself in the kitchen craving pasta and waiting, not very patiently, for water to boil. I think perhaps this is a little to time intensive for a midnight snack, but if only I’d had this as leftovers in the fridge! It looks fantastic.

    On a different note – I COMPLETELY agree about how blogging opens your world to food. I love the new things I discover and try through all of my fantastic blogging friends!

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  29. Delicious pasta dish with chicken…love it! Lemon, butter, cream…so tasty and rich in flavor.
    Hope you are having a great week Nami and thanks for this delicious and simple recipe 🙂

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  32. Chicken Scallopini? I love the way it rolls in your tongue haha. and btw, Nami, you’re so right, ever since I started blogging, new recipes exploded in my kitchen like never before. You inspired me to share the recipes I also tried and was inspired because of blogging.hmmm great idea!

    have a great day!
    malou

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  33. Nami, I’m sure your husband know that he is one very lucky man. Your recipes are simply amazing. Sometimes we do simple pasta dishes like this when we are short of time. My variation would be without the chicken, cream and butter in summer so that it’s light but winter is great with the additions. I love how the lemon juice and juices from the cherry tomatoes give this dish its natural tangy taste which complements so well with a good olive oil and bacon. Well done.

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  40. you’re so right talking about food learning thru blogging. I’m learning a great deal from bloggers and thanks so much for sharing all the wonderful recipes here! Lemon and butter in pasta, that’s creamy and tangy!!

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  41. It is so true – no matter how many years you’ve cooked, there is always something else to learn. I have learned so much since I started blog surfing and have been inspired by a lot of young chefs! One day soon, I will be making sushi! 🙂 This IS a great pasta recipe!

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  44. Nami – you did an incredible job! I love chicken scallopini and yours looks like it could be served in a restaurant! Delicious!

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  45. Beautiful – thanks for the lesson on the meaning of the word “scallopini”! I love the addition of whole cherry tomatoes. It’s so wonderful, the way they pop open when cooking!

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  46. I love this creamy pasta … but have to indulge sparingly, otherwise I will not be able to fit into my summer clothing. So not pretty with extra ‘bulge’ around my waisline 😛

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  52. I just love pasta but I always make it the same way (minced meat and lots of veggies). Time to change things up. Your pasta looks amazing! I love all the flavours you put in there. Although it’s only Thursday I hope you have some great plans for the weekend. I know I’m looking forward to it =)

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  55. Mika

    Oh wow! My dream is to have this delicious pasta for lunch (not leftover, though. has to be cooked for lunch for me!). Looks soooo yummy…..

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  60. agree with u nami, blogging, and food-logging did makes us more knowledgeable more than before, this blogging things is a precious ones fr us a foodie don’t u agree? 🙂
    even I found a sweet friend like u in this “hectic” and fun blogging world 🙂
    tq fr sharing the recipe nami, as u know I LOVES pasta, crazy madly in love with it!
    Now I have one more recipe to try!
    the veggie and chicken breast make the dish more healtier, oh ya loves the salad on top!! 😉

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  63. Sook

    The pasta looks so good. I love sauceless pasta like that… just simple flavors with lemon and a few seasonings and of course a little bit of butter makes it even better! 🙂

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    • Hahaha! So interesting how Italian food turning into something else. For example, we don’t stir fry soba, but here I’ve seen stir fried soba many times… Thanks for letting me know. 😉

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  67. And aren’t we glad you are exposed to new recipes because you make them all look so beautiful! I love a chicken scallopini from time to time. Relatively quick and hearty (plus the BF loves to carb load on pasta).

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  68. I must say Nami, you are quite the versatile cook, other than Japanese cuisine. Such a fantastic Italian inspired scallopini dish with the pasta. So comforting and delicious. I can just taste the flavor combination, of all the amazing things you’ve added!

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  71. Matt

    Hi,

    I was hoping to replicate the Chicken Scallopini dish from Johnny Carnino’s and this recipe is very close… probably better. Tried it tonight and absolutely loved it. Did a slight variation and breaded the chicken. This is an outstanding dish! (and pretty rich…)

    Thanks for sharing,
    Matt

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  72. Rachel

    This is the most amazing recipe we’ve ever had. Thank you so much for sharing your recipes. They have brought our family back to the dinner table.

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