Recipes & Cooking: August 2006 Archives

This How to Cook Everything is a damn good cookbook. This time Bittman's advice on cooking chicken breast cutlets produced juicy, flavorful meat. You just marinate the chicken in 1 tablespoon olive oil, 1/2 cup chopped basil, 2 tablespoons lemon juice, and salt and pepper to taste for at least an hour. Then just broil it for 3 or 4 minutes on each side.

The recipe says to boil the marinade for a minute, then brush the chicken with it while it's broiling, but I skipped those two steps and the chicken was still great, topped with chopped tomato and basil and drizzled with good olive oil.