Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chicken piccata. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Piccata describes meat, usually veal or chicken, that is sliced, dredged in flour, browned, then served in a sauce containing lemon juice, butter, and capers. Piccata is an Italian word spelled sometimes as picatta or pichotta. The culinary use of the Italian term means "to be pounded flat". Chicken piccata is nothing more than chicken breast cutlets, dredged in flour, browned, and served with a sauce of butter, lemon juice, capers, and either stock or white wine.
Chicken Piccata is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Chicken Piccata is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chicken piccata using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Piccata:
- Get 1 1/2 thin cut chicken breasts
- Make ready 1/4 cup lemon juice
- Get 1/2 cup white wine
- Make ready 1 cup chicken stock
- Prepare 6 thin slices of lemons
- Prepare 3 Tbsp extra virgin olive oil
- Take 5 Tbsp unsalted butter divided
- Make ready 2 Tbsp Capers
- Make ready 3 tbsp freshly chopped parsley
- Make ready All purpose flour for breading
- Make ready 1 medium shallot chopped
- Get 2 garlic cloves chopped
- Get to taste Salt and pepper
For dinner this week, make Giada De Laurentiis' famous Chicken Piccata recipe, a comforting Italian classic made with lemon, butter and capers. Italian Chicken Piccata - thin chicken breasts are cooked to golden and then drizzled with a light lemon garlic sauce. Chicken piccata is a classic Italian dish, and it's pronounced peek-kah-tah. Chicken Piccata is an Italian chicken dish served in a lemon, wine, butter sauce with capers and parsley.
Steps to make Chicken Piccata:
- On medium high Heat, preheat the olive oil in a large deep nonstick skillet,Season the flour with salt and pepper. Dredge 2 tbsp of butter in the seasoned flour and set aside. - Dredge the chicken breast into the flour shaking off any excess flour and set aside.
- When the oil is hot add 1 Tbsp of butter, when the butter is melted add the chicken and cook for 3 to 4 minutes on each side or until the chicken is cooked through. (You might need to do this in batches) Remove the chicken from the pan and add the shallot in with the pan juices. Cook the shallot until soft and translucent about 2 minutes. Add garlic and cook for 30 seconds.
- Add the wine and let it cook for 2 minutes, just until all the alcohol cooks out and the wine reduces by half. Add the chicken stock and 2 Tbsp of butter and season with salt and pepper. Cook until the liquids reduce by half about 5 to 6 minutes. Add the chicken back in with the liquids and add the capers, 2 Tbsp of the dredged butter and the lemon juice. Cook for 2 minutes or until the sauce thickens, add the parsley and lemon slices and cook for 30 seconds. Serve this amazing chicken piccata over your favorite pasta
Chicken piccata is a classic Italian dish, and it's pronounced peek-kah-tah. 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. Creamy Chicken Piccata - Let's just start out by stating the obvious, everything is better with a little cream added right? A quick dinner that involves golden pan-seared chicken breast topped with a rich and bright lemon.
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