'Stay Married Chicken,' indulgent and delicious, has 'definitely worked,' says family-minded creator

"Marry Me Chicken" archetypal went viral backmost successful 2016. 

But present that the wedding is over, what's next? 

Enter Leslie Stern's "Stay Married Chicken," a twist connected her family's chicken limone recipe. 

Stern posts recipes and cooking contented connected her societal media pages — and gave the crockery its tongue-in-cheek moniker owed to the reliability and simplicity of the recipe.

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"'Marry Me Chicken' is thing a small spot much indulgent," Stern told Fox News Digital successful a Zoom interrogation from her location successful Illinois. "It uses dense cream. It uses chickenhearted broth. It uses Parmesan. Sun-dried tomatoes. Really large things." (See the video astatine the apical of this article.) 

Stern utilized to often marque "Marry Me Chicken" for her family, but "it's thing that's a small spot heavier." 

Leslie Stern (inset, with her husband) is the creator of the viral "Stay Married Chicken" dish. The "simple" look has ingredients that astir radical already person successful their kitchens, she said.  (Leslie Stern)

Looking to lighten things up, Stern thought of her family's chicken limone recipe, which she said she ate each Friday nighttime arsenic a child. When she re-created and posted it connected her societal media platforms, she gave it a caller name: "Stay Married Chicken." 

"This is something you cook and you conscionable support coming backmost to," she said. 

"My parents person made it. And truthful I've been making that for my husband, present for my friends, my family," Stern said. "If you've been to my house, you've decidedly had this." 

The "simple" look has ingredients that astir radical already person successful their kitchens, Stern told Fox News Digital. 

"If you've been to my house, you've decidedly had this." 

To marque the chicken, Stern begins by coating her chickenhearted breasts successful half-and-half, owed to an ovum allergy successful her house. 

Afterward, she dredges the chickenhearted breasts successful breadcrumbs and sears them successful a skillet. 

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While the bulk of the ingredients are pantry staples, 2 things indispensable beryllium fresh: basil and citrus juice, she said. 

"Fresh citrus foodstuff is the key," she said. "Fresh basil is besides the key. Good, fresh basil and past bully olive oil." 

These ingredients, she said, make a "magic" condiment for the chicken.

"They're really going connected 39 years of matrimony this March."

For what it's worth, the "Stay Married Chicken" crockery already has a occurrence communicative nether its belt: Stern's parents. The 2 "love" the sanction change, she said.

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"They deliberation it's existent due to the fact that they're really going connected 39 years of marriage this March," she said. "So, it's decidedly worked. I deliberation that's the concealed to the recipe." 

The "Stay Married Chicken" is based connected a household look for chickenhearted limone, Stern told Fox News Digital. (Leslie Stern)

Stay Married Chicken recipe by Leslie Stern 

Serves 3-4

Ingredients

For the chicken

4-6 pieces of thinly sliced chicken breast

1/3 cupful fractional & fractional (for coating)

1½ cups seasoned breadcrumbs

Olive lipid (enough to overgarment the bottommost of the pan)

2 tablespoons butter

Seasonings: salt, pepper, Italian seasonings, ail powder
 

Fresh lemons and caller basil are 2 of the cardinal ingredients successful this dish, Stern told Fox News Digital. (iStock)

For the citrus sauce

Juice of 2 ample lemons (about ½ cup, caller foodstuff lone — indispensable beryllium fresh)

Equal parts olive oil

2 ail cloves, grated

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A fistful of caller basil, chopped

A dash of salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, and paprika

4-5 slices of lemon

Directions

Lemon sauce

1. In a bowl, harvester the citrus juice, salt, pepper, Italian seasoning, grated ail and paprika. Let beryllium for 1 minute.

2. Slowly whisk successful an adjacent magnitude of olive lipid until good combined. Stir successful chopped basil and acceptable aside.

Tip: Use other citrus and lipid for an other saucy chicken.

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Chicken

1. Preheat your oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit.

2. Season the chicken breasts with salt, capsicum and Italian seasonings.

3. Place the chicken in a vessel and determination the fractional & fractional implicit it, ensuring each pieces are evenly coated. Dip each chicken breast into the seasoned breadcrumbs, covering each sides.

4. Heat a heavy-bottomed cookware and adhd a swirl of olive lipid and a spoon of butter. The lipid should conscionable overgarment the bottom of the pan.

5. Once the lipid is hot, sear the chicken for astir 2–3 minutes connected each broadside until aureate brown. (The chicken doesn't request to beryllium afloat cooked; it volition decorativeness successful the oven.)

6. Remove the browned chicken and spot it connected a insubstantial towel-lined plate. Repeat with the remaining pieces.

Combine and bake

7. Once each the chicken is browned, spot it backmost successful the blistery cookware implicit a mean vigor and apical with citrus slices. Pour the citrus condiment implicit the chicken.

8. Let it bubble connected the stove for astir 2 minutes.

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9. Transfer the cookware to the oven and cook for 15-20 minutes, until aureate brownish and bubbling.

10. Keep warm astatine 200 degrees Fahrenheit until acceptable to serve. Pairs nicely with roasted potatoes, pasta, veggies oregon rice.

This look is owned by Leslie Stern and was shared with Fox News Digital.