Lemon Chicken Piccata

Lemon Chicken Piccata – a simple yet super impressive chicken piccata in a tasty lemon, butter and capers sauce. Perfect with pasta for a quick and delicious dinner.

Ah, this chicken piccata.

This could be that romantic dish for that special occasion. For that special someone. I truly believe that a way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, and if you don’t believe me, I dare you to try it, and cook him a meal like this. All I can tell you is that my man sure enjoyed it. But hey, this dish isn’t only for men, all men out there can make this dish for their special someone.

Although I believe this chicken piccata is an impressive dish, it’s so simple to make. It’s amazing sometimes how you can turn a few simple ingredients into a fabulous and totally delicious dish.

What Is Chicken Piccata

Piccata is a method of preparing food where meat is sliced, coated, sautéed and served in a sauce. The dish is Italian as the name would imply, but it is originally made with veal. Here I chose to make mine with chicken breasts, thinly sliced, or butterflied.

Ingredients

You really only need a few ingredients for this wonderful dish.

• Chicken Breasts – you want them boneless and skinless. You can also do this with boneless skinless chicken thighs, for the dark meat lover.
• Flour – all purpose flour for dredging our chicken through.
• Seasoning – salt and pepper to taste.
• Butter – I always use unsalted, this way I can control how much salt is in my food.
• Olive oil – pretty much my oil of choice all the time, especially for dishes such as this.
• Lemon juice – this is the star of this recipe, so you want to make sure is freshly squeezed for best flavor.
• White wine – a dry white wine will work great such as Sauvignon Blanc or Pinot Grigio.
• Capers – this is another key ingredient in this recipe, they’ll give the dish more lemony, oily and salt flavor.
• Parsley – as always, a little bit for garnish because we eat with our eyes first.

How to Make Chicken Piccata

The chicken breasts are skinless and boneless, and thinly sliced lengthwise or butterflied. They are generously seasoned with salt and pepper then dredged through flour. The chicken is then pan fried to a golden perfection on both sides in butter and olive oil.

The chicken is then removed from the skillet, and the lemon juice, white wine and capers are added, at the same time scraping all those delicious brown bits from the bottom of the skillet.

That’s where all the flavor is, so you want to make sure you scrape real well. I chose to use a dry white wine here, but chicken broth would work just as well.

You then add the chicken back to the skillet and simmer the chicken in the sauce for another 5 minutes, after which you remove the chicken to a platter.

The sauce is then thickened with a bit more butter and cooked for a couple more minutes until it just thickens a bit. At this point you can pour this delicious sauce over the chicken, or as I did mine, put the chicken back in the skillet, and garnished with lots of parsley.

It’s such an easy dish to make, so full of flavor, if you love Meyer lemons this dish is for you. Of course you don’t have to use Meyer lemons, but if you have them, please do.

I had Lemon caper chicken piccata at a restaurant recently and so enjoyed it. Found your recipe and it is every bit as good and exactly what I was looking for… AND I had everything needed on hand (even better)! Thank you!!!

How To Serve

This chicken piccata is perfect over buttered egg noodles or mashed potatoes.

You can also serve this over rice and a side of roasted broccoli or green beans.

Looking for More Chicken Recipes? Try These:

• Creamy Lemon Chicken Piccata Fettuccine
• Chicken Marsala
• Oven Roasted Chicken Shawarma
• Bourbon Chicken
• Chicken Lo Mein
• Chicken Piccata Pasta
• Lemon Pepper Chicken

Check out the video for the Creamy Lemon Chicken Piccata Fettuccine!

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Lemon Chicken Piccata

4.61 from 223 votes

Prep: 15 mins

Cook: 25 mins

Total: 40 mins

Author: Joanna Cismaru

Serves: 4

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Lemon Chicken Piccata – a simple yet super impressive chicken piccata in a tasty lemon, butter and capers sauce. Perfect with pasta for a quick and delicious dinner.

Equipment

• 12-inch Cast Iron Skillet
  12-inch Cast Iron Skillet

Ingredients

• 2 chicken breasts skinless and boneless, cut in half lengthwise2 chicken breasts skinless and boneless, cut in half lengthwise
• 1/4 tsp salt or to taste1/4 tsp salt or to taste
• 1/2 tsp pepper or to taste1/2 tsp pepper or to taste
• 1/4 cup all-purpose flour for dredging1/4 cup all-purpose flour for dredging
• 4 tbsp butter unsalted4 tbsp butter unsalted
• 2 tbsp olive oil2 tbsp olive oil
• 1/3 cup lemon juice freshly squeezed1/3 cup lemon juice freshly squeezed
• 1/2 cup white wine dry1/2 cup white wine dry
• 1/4 cup capers brined1/4 cup capers brined
• 1/3 cup parsley fresh, chopped1/3 cup parsley fresh, chopped

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Instructions

• Season chicken with salt and pepper. Dredge chicken in flour and shake off excess.
• In a large skillet melt 2 tbsp of butter with the olive oil, over medium to high heat.
• Add chicken pieces to the skillet and cook for about 3 to 4 min per side until browned. When chicken is cooked, remove chicken from skillet.
• Remove skillet from heat. Add lemon juice, chicken stock or wine, capers and scrape up the brown bits from the pan for extra flavor. Return skillet to heat and bring to a boil. Taste the sauce and season with additional salt and pepper if needed. Add chicken back to skillet and simmer for about 5 minutes. Remove chicken to a platter and add remaining butter and whisk for about a minute. Sauce will thicken a bit.
• You can return chicken to skillet and garnish with parsley. Alternatively you can pour the sauce over the chicken and garnish with parsley.

Recipe Notes

1. Chicken stock would be a good substitute for the white wine.
2. Please keep in mind that nutritional information is a rough estimate and can vary greatly based on products used.

Nutrition Information:

Serving: 1chicken pieceCalories: 290kcal (15%)Carbohydrates: 9g (3%)Protein: 13g (26%)Fat: 20g (31%)Saturated Fat: 8g (50%)Cholesterol: 66mg (22%)Sodium: 520mg (23%)Potassium: 278mg (8%)Vitamin A: 810IU (16%)Vitamin C: 15.7mg (19%)Calcium: 20mg (2%)Iron: 1.2mg (7%)

Course:Main Course

Cuisine:Italian

Keyword:chicken piccata, chicken recipes, italian food, lemon chicken piccata

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