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chicken kiev
Breaded chicken breast wrapped around chilled garlic-parsley butter and fried until crisp.
About chicken kiev
Chicken Kiev, also written Chicken Kyiv, is a breaded chicken cutlet wrapped around cold butter before frying. This profile follows the familiar garlic-and-parsley butter version while acknowledging that the dish's exact historical origin is disputed.
Garlic and parsley perfume the melted butter, with lemon juice adding brightness and black pepper gentle heat. Chicken breast provides a mild savoury base beneath the richer butter and toasted breadcrumb coating.
The cutlet is compact and evenly golden, with a dry crisp shell around moist white chicken. When cut, the hot herb butter flows from the centre, giving a sharp contrast between crunchy crumb, firm meat and liquid filling.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Milk, Wheat (gluten), Egg.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in chicken kiev
Chicken Kyiv with Garlic-Parsley Butter.
- Chicken breastsStuffed cutlet base
- ButterFlowing herb filling
- GarlicPungent butter flavour
- Fresh parsleyHerbal butter flavour
- Lemon juiceBright acidity
- SaltSeasoning
- Black pepperPeppery seasoning
- Wheat flourFirst coating layer
- EggBreadcrumb binder
- BreadcrumbsCrisp outer coating
- Vegetable oilDeep-frying medium
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Chicken breasts:
- Butter:
- Garlic:
- Fresh parsley:
- Lemon juice:
- Salt:
- Black pepper:
- Wheat flour:
- Egg:
- Breadcrumbs:
- Vegetable oil: . The source names vegetable oil without identifying its botanical source.
Origins & food traditions
The Guardian supplies the complete selected garlic-butter Chicken Kyiv formula: chicken breast, butter, garlic, parsley, lemon juice, salt, pepper, flour, egg, breadcrumbs and frying oil, with tarragon explicitly optional and excluded from this branch. The reference history independently corroborates the defining pounded chicken fillet, cold butter, egg and breadcrumb structure while noting the dish's disputed origins and broad regional associations.
Countries
- Ukraine
- RussiaCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Ukrainian Cuisine
- Russian CuisineCatalogue link pending review