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Lemon Chicken Piccata is a classic Italian dish made with a creamy lemon butter sauce and then topped with salty capers. This healthy and easy chicken breast recipe can be served over a bed of pasta or eaten on it's own for a gluten-free and low-carb main dish recipe. This simple chicken recipes features chicken breasts browned in a skillet then topped with a flavorful sauce of lemon juice, capers, parsley, and vermouth.
To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook lemon chicken breasts with capers using 12 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Lemon Chicken Breasts with Capers:
- Take 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- Prepare freshly grated parmigiano-reggiano cheese
- Prepare fine, dry breadcrumbs
- Get capers, rinsed, drained, patted dry, and chopped
- Prepare lemon, zested and juiced
- Take fresh flat-leaf parsley
- Make ready Kosher salt
- Prepare freshly ground black pepper
- Take butter
- Prepare olive oil
- Take garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- Get lower-sodium chicken broth
Oven baked lemon chicken with capers. Chicken breasts with vegetables and dry white wine cooked in a halogen oven. You may also like Baked Tandoori Chicken Kebab, another delicious chicken recipe baked in an oven. Discard half the chicken juice from skillet and reduce heat to low.
Steps to make Lemon Chicken Breasts with Capers:
- Position a rack in the center of the oven and heat the oven to 425°F.
- Make a lengthwise horizontal slice almost through each chicken breast and open each up like a book.
- Flatten the chicken with a meat mallet until it is 1/4" thick.
- put the cheese, breadcrumbs, 3 Tbsp capers, lemon zest, and 1 Tbsp parsley in a mini chopper of food processor and pulse a few times to combine.
- Sprinkle the mixture on top of the chicken breasts.
- Fold each breast closed and secure with toothpicks.
- Sprinkle the breasts with salt and pepper.
- Heat 1 Tbsp butter and the oil in a large (12"), heavy-duty, oven-proof skillet over medium-high heat until the butter melts and starts to foam, about 2 minutes.
- Add the chicken and cook, without touching, until it browns and easily releases from the pan, about 2 minutes.
- Turn the chicken and cook the other side until browned, about 2 more minutes.
- Add the garlic and the remaining 1 Tbsp capers to the skillet, transfer the pan to the oven, and roast uncovered until the chicken cooks through (165°F), about 8 minutes.
- Transfer the chicken to a serving platter and tent with foil.
- Set the skillet over medium-high heat; add the chicken broth and cook, scraping the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to loosen any brown bits, until it reduces by half, about 2 minutes.
- Remove from heat and whisk in 2 Tbsp of the lemon juice and the remaining 2 Tbsp of butter.
- Taste and add more lemon juice, salt, and pepper, if needed.
- Serve the chicken drizzled with the butter sauce and sprinkled with the remaining 1 Tbsp parsley.
To skillet, add butter, garlic, white wine, lemon juice, and capers and bring to a simmer. Add lemon slices and return chicken. Pat the chicken breasts dry and place them skin side up. Transfer the chicken to a paper towel-lined baking sheet and sprinkle with salt. Stir in the capers, lemon juice and parsley; spoon over the chicken and serve.
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