Chicken Piccata. Chicken breast cutlets, dredged in flour, browned, served with sauce of butter, lemon juice, capers, and stock or wine. Recipe courtesy of Giada De Laurentiis. Creamy Chicken Piccata - Let's just start out by stating the obvious, everything is better with a little cream added right?

With tender, juicy chicken thighs + the most heavenly cream How do you like your chicken piccata? Because I like mine extra-extra creamy. 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. You can have Chicken Piccata using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Chicken Piccata

You need 1 lb of thin sliced chicken breast.
Prepare 2 of lemons.
It's 1 of flour for dredging.
It's 6 tbsp of olive oil.
It's 6 tbsp of unsalted butter.
You need 2 clove of peeled garlic.
It's 1/4 cup of capers.
You need 1/2 cup of dry white wine.
Prepare 1 cup of chicken stock.
It's 1 box of angel hair pasta.

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. Chicken piccata with lemon sauce is exquisite and easy to prepare. Lemon Chicken Piccata - a simple yet super impressive chicken piccata in a tasty lemon, butter and capers sauce.

Chicken Piccata step by step

Dredge chicken in flour.
In skillet over medium heat, heat 3 tbsp. of oil and 2 tbsp. of butter. Add chicken, cook 4 min, flip and cook 4 min..
Remove chicken, pour in 3 tbsp. oil and remaining 4 tbsp. butter. Add garlic and juice of 1 1/2 lemon and cook 3 min. Add lemon slices of 1/2 lemon and remove after 2 min..
Add capers and cook 4 min. Pour in wine and boil. Pour in chicken stock and cook 4 min. Add chicken to mix and cook 10 min. Serve over pasta..

Chicken piccata is a recipe that I frequently see on restaurant menus. The chicken breast in this lemon chicken piccata recipe is super tender, and the buttery goodness melts in your mouth. Chicken Piccata is traditionally made with white wine pan sauce, but I didn't have any wine on hand (I know, I was shocked too), so I subbed it with chicken broth. The sauce was still so good that I wanted. The lemon-garlic, butter sauce will have you licking your plate!