Orange Chicken Breasts With Baby Spinach

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So overmuch of wintertime cooking centers connected roasted and braised nutrient that it's bully to premix it up with immoderate lighter, brighter dishes. Here, I instrumentality vantage of the seasonal abundance of citrus. Chicken cutlets are marinated successful an orangish vinaigrette and past broiled, oregon grilled if you prefer. Some of the aforesaid vinaigrette, reserved earlier marinating, serves arsenic a condiment erstwhile the chickenhearted breasts are served connected a furniture of steamed babe spinach with immoderate orangish segments. The operation is simply a lukewarm crockery that's bully for luncheon oregon arsenic a airy supper.

You tin bargain bladed chickenhearted cutlets oregon boneless, skinless chickenhearted bosom halves, and chopped them horizontally successful half; lb bladed arsenic needed.

This look makes a generous cupful of orangish dressing. You'll request little than two-thirds of the dressing for the recipe. Save the remainder to formal a greenish crockery the adjacent day.

The chickenhearted needs to marinate successful the refrigerator for astatine slightest 1 hr and up to 4 hours.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Ingredients

For the vinaigrette

  • Finely grated zest and freshly squeezed foodstuff of 1 orangish (2 teaspoons zest, 1/4 cupful juice)
  • 1/4 cupful achromatic vino vinegar
  • 1 tablespoonful Dijon-style mustard
  • 1/4 spoon salt
  • 1/4 spoon crushed reddish capsicum flakes
  • 1/2 spoon sugar
  • Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
  • 1/2 cupful olive oil

For the chickenhearted and spinach

  • 1 lb (four 1/2-inch-thick) chickenhearted bosom cutlets (see headnote)
  • 6 ounces babe spinach, rinsed
  • Water, arsenic needed
  • 2 mean oranges, chopped into segments (see NOTE)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    200

  • Fat

    8 g

  • Saturated Fat

    2 g

  • Carbohydrates

    2 g

  • Sodium

    170 mg

  • Cholesterol

    65 mg

  • Protein

    27 g

  • Fiber

    1 g

  • Sugar

    1 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Nourish columnist Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Tested by Stephanie Witt Sedgwick.

Published December 21, 2010

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Updated March 13, 2026

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