Chicken Piccata is an amazing dinner recipe. It’s one of those things I make for dinner where I’m pretty sure everyone is going to be quite happy with what lands on the table. The flavor of the sauce with tangy lemon, butter and salty capers is so simple, but it works wonders when served with pan-fried chicken.
Ingredients needed:
thin-sliced chicken cutlets all purpose flour canola or vegetable oil white wine garlic chicken broth lemon juice capers butter
How to make Chicken Piccata:
Season the chicken cutlets with salt and pepper, and then coat the chicken with flour. Add the chicken to oil in a hot skillet and brown both sides. Then remove the chicken from the pan and keep it warm on a foil-covered plate. To make the sauce, add wine and garlic to the pan and simmer. Then add chicken broth, lemon juice and capers.
The chicken is then added back to the pan and cooked in the sauce until heated through. Then it can be moved to serving plates.
Finish off the sauce for this Chicken Piccata by adding butter and lemons to the sauce in the pan. Once the butter melts, the sauce is done and can be spooned over the chicken.
Be sure to spoon the lemons over the chicken too. You won’t eat them, but they will add an amazing amount of flavor to your meal. You may end up with two pieces of chicken, as you see in the photos here. Or you may have several cutlets that are cut much thinner. This recipe serves two people, but you can certainly double the recipe to serve more!
The Best Chicken Piccata recipe is one that tastes like you would have it on a restaurant menu. This recipe is darn close. It’s so easy to make, and I think you’ll be impressed with the results.
Is there a substitute for wine when making Chicken Piccata?
If you don’t cook with wine, you can use chicken broth instead. So in this recipe, you’ll use 1/3 cup chicken broth in place of the 1/3 cup white wine. And then you’ll add another 1/2 cup of chicken broth later in the recipe.
Sprinkle individual servings with freshly chopped Italian parsley. That makes it pretty. Enjoy!
Here are a few more classic Italian recipes you might like to try:
Chicken Marsala Rigatoni in Vodka Sauce Classic Light Lasagna Veal Piccata Pasta Primavera Spaghetti Carbonara Spaghetti and Meatballs Cacio e Pepe
