Chicken French

chicken française, chicken francese)

Chicken française (or chicken francese) is an italian-american dish of flour-dredged, egg-dipped, sautéed chicken cutlets with a lemon-butter and white wine sauce. the dish is popular in the region surrounding rochester, new york, where it is known as chicken french, to the point that some have suggested the dish be called chicken rochester. when italian immigrants arrived in rochester, they brought their recipes with them, including veal francese, but they substituted chicken for the more expensive veal. another source says that veal francese had been popular in the region since the 1950s, but when consumers boycotted veal in the 1970s, area chefs like james cianciola of the brown derb...

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