Chicken Piccata. Chicken breast cutlets, dredged in flour, browned, served with sauce of butter, lemon juice, capers, and stock or wine. For dinner this week, make Giada De Laurentiis' famous Chicken Piccata recipe, a comforting Italian classic made with lemon, butter and capers. Creamy Chicken Piccata - Let's just start out by stating the obvious, everything is better with a little cream added right?
You can cook Chicken Piccata using 19 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
Ingredients of Chicken Piccata
- You need 1/2 cup of flour.
- It’s 1/4 tsp of italian seasoning.
- It’s 1/4 tsp of pepper.
- Prepare 1/4 cup of parmesan cheese.
- You need 1 1/2 lb of boneless skinless chicken breasts.
- It’s 1 tbsp of butter.
- It’s 1 tbsp of olive oil.
- It’s 1 large of minced shallot.
- Prepare 2 clove of minced garlic.
- You need 2 tsp of capers, rinsed.
- It’s 2 of red chilis, sliced.
- You need 1/2 cup of dry white wine.
- Prepare 1/2 cup of low sodium or homemade chicken stock.
- You need 1/4 cup of fresh lemon juice.
- It’s 1 tbsp of chopped parsley.
- It’s 1 tbsp of chopped chives.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of heavy cream.
- It’s 1 tbsp of cold butter, salted or usalted.
- Prepare 1/4 tsp of black pepper and salt to taste.
Use boneless chicken breasts for chicken piccata. We all know that boneless chicken breasts can be a bit boring on their own, but that's not in the cards here. Remove the chicken from the pan and set aside. Chicken Piccata is an easy one-pan chicken dinner in a light lemon sauce.
Chicken Piccata instructions
Combine flour, parmesan cheese,black pepper and italian seasoning in a bowl..
Pound chicken breast between two sheets of plastic wrap to a even 1/4 inch thickness.
Heat butter and oil in large skillet , put each chicken breast in flour mixture bowl just to lighlty coat and dry cicken. This is a very light coating, more o a seasoned rub. Add chicken to hot oil/ butter in skillet, do not crowd. Cook for about 3 miutes for each side, add more olive oi if needed and cook until golden, remove to plate and tent with foil to keep warm..
Into skillet where chicken was cooked add shallot, garlic and chilis, cook just until soft, 1 miniute, add white wine and deglaze pan by scraping bottom of pan and reducing wine to almost gone. Add chicken broth, lemon juice, and cream, the 1/4 teaspoon black pepper and bring to a boil and cook a few minutes until a light sauce, add capers, parsley and chives, Turn heat to low and whisk in butter. Taste sauce add salt just if needed. Serve sauce over chicken..
Watch the video tutorial below and this may just become your new favorite chicken recipe! This post may contain affiliate links. Chicken Piccata is an Italian chicken dish served in a lemon, wine, butter sauce with capers and parsley. This recipe is also great with fish if you need a recipe the kids will love, try Flounder Picatta. Season the chicken with salt and pepper.
