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 have Chicken Piccata using 12 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Chicken Piccata
- You need 1 of large chicken breast (or 2 small), pounded to 1/4" and sliced in 4.
- Prepare 3 tbsp of extra light virgin olive oil.
- It’s 1 dash of salt & pepper.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of flour.
- It’s 1/4 cup of dry white wine or white cooking wine.
- It’s 1 tsp of garlic, minced.
- It’s 1/2 cup of chicken stock, or broth.
- You need 2 tbsp of fresh lemon juice, not concentrate.
- You need 1 tbsp of petite capers, drained.
- It’s 2 tbsp of unsalted butter.
- You need 7 slice of lemon rounds thinly sliced.
- You need 3/4 tsp of fresh finely chopped parsley - very optional.
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 step by step
This dish works up very quickly when it gets started. My biggest HINT - have all your ingredients ready before you start..
Heat oil in pan on medium high heat. I gave 3 tablespoons as a guideline but it depends upon the size of your pan. I have a 12" pan so I use 3 tablespoons..
Salt & pepper each piece of chicken then dredge in flour making sure to shake off excess flour. Hint: if you have an electric stove oil takes awhile to heat; so you be the judge as to the timing..
Saute cutlets 2-3 minutes on one side, flip saute cutlets with COVERED pan 1-2 minutes more. Transfer to warm plate or cover with foil. Pour off fat but not the bits that collected from chicken that's where all the flavor is..
Add wine and garlic - stir scraping pan to loosen up bits. Cook until garlic is slightly brown and liquid is nearly gone - about 1 minute, or so..
Add broth, lemon juice and capers. Return cutlets to pan & cook 1 minute on each side. Transfer cutlets to a different plate (for sanitary reasons)..
To finish recipe - Add butter and lemon slices to pan. Once butter melts, give a quick stir and pour over cutlets. Optional - garnish with only fresh chopped parsley..
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.
