Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, lemon chicken breasts with capers. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Round out the meal by serving the chicken over pasta with a side dish of steamed asparagus. 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.
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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. 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 6 oz 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
- Prepare 1/2 cup freshly grated parmigiano-reggiano cheese
- Make ready 1/4 cup fine, dry breadcrumbs
- Prepare 4 tbsp capers, rinsed, drained, patted dry, and chopped
- Get 1 lemon, zested and juiced
- Get 2 tbsp fresh flat-leaf parsley
- Take 3/4 tsp Kosher salt
- Make ready 1/2 tsp freshly ground black pepper
- Prepare 3 tbsp butter
- Take 1 tbsp olive oil
- Take 2 medium garlic cloves, thinly sliced
- Take 1/2 cup lower-sodium chicken broth
Return chicken to pan; turn to coat. I was skeptical of the steak sauce but no one could guess the ingredients at my house. Discard half the chicken juice from skillet and reduce heat to low. To skillet, add butter, garlic, white wine, lemon juice, and capers and bring to a simmer.
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.
Add lemon slices and return chicken. Pat the chicken breasts dry and place them skin side up. If you like Picatta then you'll love this! Serve this dish with a side a mashed cauliflower to keep it low carb/keto friendly or topped on a plate of rice to soak up all the juices! Transfer chicken breasts to a heated plate.
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