Easy Chicken Piccata
From krumkake 16 years ago
- 15 minutes to make
- Serves 2
Piccata is probably among my husband's Top 5 Favorites, but I never used to be a big lemon fan. Lately I have fallen in love with the tart flavor of lemon, and this dish is perfect to satisfy that crave. It's so easy, it goes on the table in under 30 minutes,
Ingredients
- ⅓ to ½ cup flour shopping list
- ½ teaspoon freshly ground sea salt shopping list
- ¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper shopping list
- 2 skinless, boneless chicken breasts, cut in half horizontally to give you 2 thin filets from each breast (if there is a section of the rib meat attached to the breast, cut it off and fry it with the other pieces) shopping list
- 4 tablespoons butter, divided shopping list
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil shopping list
- ⅓ cup fresh squeezed lemon juice shopping list
- ⅔ cup chicken stock shopping list
- ¼ cup capers shopping list
- ¼ teaspoon garlic salt, or to taste shopping list
How to make it
- Season flour with salt and pepper, then dredge chicken pieces in the seasoned flour.
- In a large skillet over medium high heat, melt 2 tablespoons of butter with 3 tablespoons olive oil.
- When butter and oil start to sizzle, add flour-coated chicken pieces and cook for about 3 minutes.
- When chicken is lightly browned, flip and cook other side for 3 minutes.
- Remove chicken to a cookie sheet and keep it warm in 200 degree oven while reducing the sauce.
- Add lemon juice, stock and capers to the skillet.
- Bring sauce to a boil, scraping up the brown bits from the bottom of the pan.
- Add garlic salt and check for seasoning – add additional salt and pepper, if needed.
- Gently boil the sauce for a couple minuites to reduce it down a bit.
- Return chicken pieces to the pan and gently simmer for 3 minutes.
- Place chicken pieces on two plates.
- Add remaining 2 tablespoons butter to sauce and whisk quickly.
- Pour sauce over chicken and serve immediately.
- If serving with pasta, top it with a bit of the sauce, too.
Keep fried pieces warm in oven while finishing sauce
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Gently boil sauce for a couple minutes
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Add fried chicken back to sauce and simmer 3 minutes
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The Rating
Reviewed by 14 people-
I did it, I remembered to thaw the chicken out!!!
I added my pix, it was delicious, and ever so easy, this gets my 10 out of five... Miss ya!!
gagagrits
in Irmo loved it
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Should we start calling you Krumcake Ray? Less than 30 minutes, sounds like my type of dinner lately,now if I could only remember to thaw out the chicken. Lemon and capers are wonderful together. Sounds wonderful my friend....:)
gagagrits
in Irmo loved it
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Thanks for the new dinner recipe to make, Krumkake! I'm loving that you use both olive oil and butter to fry the chicken in. Just that alone says that this is a good recipe. So guess what's probably for dinner tomorrow night? Chicken Piccata!
annieamie
in Los Angeles loved it
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