One of my all-time favorite food dishes comes from an Italian chain restaurant called Johnny Carino’s. Called Chicken Scaloppini, the dish is described as, “Breaded, tender chicken medallions sautéed with freshly sliced mushrooms, diced roma tomatoes & flavorful bacon in a lemon butter cream sauce, served with spaghetti.”
Once, I asked a server if I could have the recipe to the lemon button cream sauce, and several minutes later she returned with the following scribbled out on receipt paper:
- Unsalted butter
- Soften at room temperature
- Sautéed onions, garlic, white pepper, salt, lemon juice
- Deglaze with white wine
- Add to the butter
Actually, that’s a cleaned-up and reworded version, the original was all abbreviations and shorthand.
Anyway, I’ve shown this to several cooks and they tell me that without measurements the recipe I was given is practically worthless. I have a hard time believing this.
If you find the above useful in any way toward reconstructing the recipe, please contact me or comment below.
Actually, I do not think it is totally useless. You could look up several Scalopini recipes and compare ingredient amount to guestimate the proper amounts. Or, you could do as I would do and experiment with amounts. Either way, you will not know if you can creat a close match if you do not even try. I will say that the ingredient list looks incomplete to me.
Well, it is just for the lemon butter sauce.
WEDNESDAY 6/14
CHICKEN SCALOPPINI by JOHNNY CARINO’S
BUILD FOR THE LEMON BUTTER
1 Lb. Margarine
2 Lb. Butter
1/4 Cup Lemon Juice
1/2 Cup White Wine
2 Tsp. Chopped Garlic
Combine these 5 items into a mixing bowl and beat at a medium speed until a smooth consistency in the batter is formed. Once combined, keep refrigerated until needed.
BUILD FOR THE CHICKEN SCALOPPINI
1 Oz. Melted Butter
3 Precooked Breaded Chicken Medallions
1/4 Cup Roma Tomatoes
1/2 Cup Sliced Mushrooms
1/4 Cup Chopped Bacon
1/2 Tsp. Salt, Pepper, Garlic Salt
5 Oz. Precooked Spaghetti
4 Oz. Heavy Whipping Cream
1/2 Cup Lemon Butter
Into a warm saute pan, combine melted butter, chicken medallions, tomatoes, mushrooms, bacon, and spice mixture. Saute until chicken begins to brown and tomatoes begin to dissolve. Add heavy cream and allow to boil to the middle of pan. Remove from fire, add lemon butter, and fold together to make sauce. Serve over spaghetti.
Thank you very much for the chicken scaloppinni recipe. I can’t wait to make it. This is my number one dish at Jhonny carinos. I been wanting to look for the recipe. Angela
I am so glad I found this recipie. This is also my favorite dish at Johnnys! As a matter of fact I was looking on the internet to find a recipe to make the Chicken Scaloppini and wa la here it is. So always remember, nothing or noone is ever useless. The people we think are useless, they serve as a bad example. God BLess
Dana
I’m not sure, but did Dana just call me a bad example?!