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How to Prepare Award-winning Chicken Piccata

 ·  ☕ 4 min read  ·  ✍️ Francisco Moore

Chicken Piccata
Chicken Piccata

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken piccata. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look 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 well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Chicken Piccata is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken piccata using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chicken Piccata:
  1. Get 4 medium skinless, boneless chicken breast
  2. Make ready 1 cayenne pepper, to taste
  3. Get 1 salt & pepper, to taste
  4. Take 1 All purpose flour, for dredging
  5. Take 2 tbsp olive oil
  6. Make ready 1 tbsp capers, drained
  7. Prepare 1/2 cup white wine
  8. Make ready 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
  9. Get 1/4 cup water
  10. Take 3 tbsp cold butter, cut into 1/4 inch cubes
  11. Get 2 tbsp fresh parsley

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.

Instructions to make Chicken Piccata:
  1. Place chicken breasts between 2-layers of plastic wrap and pound to about 1/2 inch thick.
  2. Season both sides of chicken breasts with cayenne, salt and pepper, drudge lightly in flour and shake off any excess.
  3. Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium high heat. Place chicken in the pan, reduce heat to medium and cook until browned and cooked through, about 5-minutes per side. Remove to plate.
  4. Cook capers in reserved oil, smashing them lightly to release brine, until warmed through, about 30-seconds.
  5. Pour white wine into skillet. Scrape browned bits from the bottom of the pan. Cook until reduced by half, about 2-minutes.
  6. Stir in lemon juice, water, and butter into the reduced wine sauce mixture. Reduce heat to low and stir in parsley.
  7. Return chicken breasts to the pan and cook until heated through, 1 to 2 minutes. Serve with sauce spooned on top.

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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