Pan-Seared Chicken Breasts

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated March/April 2010, America's Test Kitchen TV

Exposing boneless, skinless chicken breasts to a hot pan often yields dry, leathery meat. But what if we did most of the cooking in the oven?

SERVES 4

TIME 1¼ hours

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WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

For a chicken breast recipe with flavorful, moist, and tender meat, we gently parcooked boneless, skinless breasts in the oven, then seared them on the stovetop. Salting the chicken breasts helped keep them moist, as did cooking them covere...

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