Mom’s Best Chicken Piccata is a recipe where the chicken simmers in a lemon-butter sauce for 12 minutes until it’s perfectly tender and juicy and practically melts in your mouth. Boneless, thinly sliced chicken cutlets are sauteed for a few minutes and simmered in a sauce made with wine, lemon juice, butter, capers and chicken broth. Cooked all in one skillet, juicy and full-flavor, and ready in about 30 minutes makes this the BEST chicken piccata ever!
Chicken Piccata is sure to please a crowd! With its zesty lemon flavors and tender, juicy chicken, it becomes addicting!
A classic dish, mom’s recipe for best chicken piccata definitely transforms everyday chicken cutlets into something spectacular! Healthy and tasty, combining fresh lemon juice, extra virgin olive oil, capers, chicken broth and white wine creates a rich and savory sauce with no fuss.
This recipe for chicken piccata will feed a family of 2 to 4, and I enjoy serving it with a side of our oven-baked parsnip fries. You can also serve it with oven steak fries, as a side along with a green salad to complete the meal.
What is best to use for this recipe?
First, it’s best to buy chicken cutlets from your local butcher. Simply because they clean, pound and thinly slice them for you. You may pay a little more, but it’s definitely worth it and shopping local supports your local butchers.
Keep in mind, packages of chicken cutlets from the supermarkets don’t come thoroughly cleaned and you will have to do some of the work yourself: including pounding them and may have to slice them thinner too.
What makes Mom’s Best Chicken Piccata so great?
A few things make this the best chicken piccata. First, dusting the chicken cutlets with flour gives them some added texture. The chicken retains its moisture while cooking, making them very tender and juicy. If you make chicken piccata without the flour, the chicken will turn out tough and even dry.
Then simmering the chicken with capers gives the sauce more flavor. There’s no need to add any additional salt to this recipe, at least I didn’t think so. The capers are salty enough to give this chicken piccata and its sauce a lot of depth in flavor.
Also, mom prefers to use a lot of fresh lemon juice with this recipe. The more lemon flavor the more we love it! So I chose to use 2 large lemons, rather than small ones.
When you try our Mom’s Best Chicken Piccata , you will see for yourself how tender and juicy it is. It practically melts in your mouth!
Also try our: Veal Piccata with Lemon. It’s made with thin slices of veal and it too is juicy and tender with every bite!
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Mom's Best Chicken Piccata
Author: 2 sisters recipes
Recipe type: Dinner
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Serves: 2 to 4
Mom's Best Chicken Piccata are made with boneless thinly sliced chicken cutlets sauteed for a few minutes and finished off with a lemon-butter sauce until the chicken cooks perfectly. Juicy and delicious, cooked all in one skillet and ready in 30 minutes makes this the BEST chicken piccata ever!
Ingredients
- 1 (16-ounces) package thin boneless chicken cutlets
- ¼ cup all-purpose flour, for dusting
- 1 garlic clove - thinly sliced
- 2 Tbsp. extra virgin olive oil, plus extra, if needed
- 3 Tbsp. unsalted butter - divided
- dash of crushed red pepper flakes
- 1 + ½ Tbsp. capers
- 2 lemons -divided (1 lemon juiced, and 1 lemon cut ¼-inch slices)
- ¼ cup white wine
- ¼ cup low-sodium chicken broth
- fresh chopped parsley, as garnish
- optional: salt and pepper to taste
Instructions
- First, take chicken cutlets and cut each piece in half if they are too large. Then lightly sprinkle on top with some salt and black pepper.
- Take each piece of chicken (one at a time) and coat both sides with flour, and shake off excess flour. Set aside.
- In a large deep skillet, and on medium heat, heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil with 1 tablespoon of butter. Add in sliced garlic. When the oil is hot, add in the chicken pieces and saute the chicken for 1 to 2 minutes per side, or until golden. This takes about 5 minutes. The chicken will absorb some of the olive oil while cooking. Therefore, as you are sauteing the chicken, if you need to add more oil in the pan, then add an additional tablespoon while sauteing the chicken.
- Then remove each chicken cutlet as they are cooked, and transfer to a nearby plate.
- In the same skillet, pour in the wine, juice of one lemon, and a dash of crushed red pepper flakes. Scrape the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to deglaze the lemon sauce, about 1 minute. Add in 2 tablespoons of butter.
- Transfer the chicken back into the skillet,and pour in chicken broth and toss in the capers. COVER with a lid. Allow to sauce to come to a low boil, about 2 minutes. Lower the heat to lowest. Then top each chicken with thin slices of lemon and COVER again.
- Allow the chicken piccata to simmer for 8 to 10 minutes more. Turn off heat.
- Uncover and sprinkle with some freshly chopped parsley. And serve.
- Yields: 2 to 4 servings
7 Comments
Sandra
February 20, 2019 at 3:48 pmI’m so glad you put up a recipe for Chicken Piccata. I love chicken prepared like this and will be trying it out over the weekend. Thank you! It sounds delicious, especially with the lemon flavour!
2sisters recipes
February 20, 2019 at 3:56 pmThank you Sandra! This is one of my favorite meals and just love the ease of it! No stress!!
Let us know how it turns out for you!! Love to hear about…. have s great day!
Susan
February 20, 2019 at 5:21 pmYour photos are so mouth-watering! I’ll be trying this soon. Chicken and lemon and capers, oh my 🙂
2 sisters recipes
February 20, 2019 at 11:05 pmThanks so much Susan! Looking forward to hearing from you again about this recipe!
by Anna and Liz
February 21, 2019 at 1:44 pmThanks Susan! Can’t wait to hear back from you! 🙂
Karen (Back Road Journal)
February 28, 2019 at 2:53 pmLooks delicious and chicken piccata prepared like this is one of my favorites.
2 sisters recipes
February 28, 2019 at 3:44 pmOurs too!! Thanks so much!