{"id":2515,"slug":"pepper-crusted-chicken","title":"Pepper-Crusted Chicken","description":null,"ingredients_raw":["4 boneless skinless chicken breasts","Olive oil","Salt","½ cup cracked black peppercorns","¼ cup freshly squeezed lemon juice"],"ingredients_norm":["boneless skinless chicken breast","olive oil","salt","cracked black peppercorn","squeezed lemon juice"],"steps":["Brush chicken with olive oil. Sprinkle both sides liberally with salt.","Place pepper in a pie pan. Dredge chicken in black pepper. Let rest for 2–3 minutes.","Heat a large cast iron skillet over high heat. Pour in about 2 tbsp olive oil.","Add chicken and cook 2 minutes per side, or until browned on both sides.","Insert an oven-safe probe thermometer into one of the chicken breasts. Bake, pan and all, at 375°F until internal temperature reaches 165°F.","Remove chicken from pan and keep warm. Deglaze pan with lemon juice and drizzle over chicken. Serve warm."],"categories":["Chicken recipes","Recipes using chicken breast","Recipes using pepper","Baked recipes","Recipes using lemon juice","Main course recipes"],"prep_time_minutes":null,"cook_time_minutes":null,"total_time_minutes":null,"servings":null,"yield_text":null,"difficulty":"easy","source_name":"wikibooks","source_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Cookbook:Pepper-Crusted_Chicken","source_ref":"4510209","authors_url":"https://en.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?title=Cookbook:Pepper-Crusted_Chicken&action=history","license":"CC BY-SA 4.0","license_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","extraction_confidence":null,"content_hash":"4b97658b4c7685154dc153424f5edc2180588968914e93032dcfb808ea8cb80c","created_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:14Z","updated_at":"2026-08-02T14:43:14Z","notice":null,"url":"https://recipecontextprotocol.com/recipes/pepper-crusted-chicken"}