Keto Chicken Florentine with Crispy Rapini
Serve your chicken a la florentine style! This dish is inspired by Florence, Italy. Traditional chicken florentine consists of chicken breasts that have been lightly breaded and fried in olive oil. The chicken is served with florentine sauce, which includes flavors of white wine, cream, and a bed of spinach. To make this a complete meal, you ll enjoy your Keto chicken florentine with a side dish of green rapini. The rapini is sauteed and becomes crispy once you add ground pork rinds to them. Serve this dish with fresh lemon slices to squeeze the juice over everything! You can use this Keto recipe for your meal prepping. The chicken florentine and rapini will stay quality-fresh in your refrigerator for up to 3 days. You can microwave all the meal components together when its time to eat. You may know rapini by its other name: broccoli rabe. Theyre one and the same! Rapini is a Mediterranean, leafy green vegetable that looks very similar to broccoli. The heads of rapini look very much like broccoli heads, but the rapini heads are actually small flower buds! Yes, the buds, leaves, and stems of rapini are all edible. However, if you dont want to eat any blooming rapini buds, you can cut them off. Rapini can be quite bitter, so make sure to always cook it with a lot of salt, butter or olive oil, and lemon juice. If you dont like pork rinds or dont want to buy them to use a small amount, you can substitute them with a couple of other options. The best swap for pork rinds would be very fine bacon bits. If you want to avoid pork, grated parmesan cheese or finely chopped pecans could add the crispy element to your rapini. However, keep in mind that pork rinds or bacon would add fat macros to your diet, while parmesan cheese or nuts wont provide quite as much. Jessica L.