Ingredients
Equipment
Method
Let’s Cook – Step by Step for Chicken Piccata Recipe
- Okay, apron on.
Step 1: Flatten the chicken
- Place the chicken breasts on a board. Slice them in half horizontally so they’re thinner. Cover with plastic wrap and gently pound them to an even thickness.
- Don’t go Hulk-mode — just enough to make them even.
Step 2: Season and dredge
- Salt and pepper both sides.
- Toss in flour — shake off the extra. You just want a whisper of flour. Enough to crisp, not cake it up.
Step 3: Sizzle time
- Heat the olive oil and one tablespoon of butter in your pan over medium. When it’s hot — you’ll know, it starts to shimmer — lay in the chicken.
- Don’t crowd the pan. Give those cutlets room to breathe.
- Let them cook about 3–4 minutes per side till they’re golden brown and make that little sizzling sound that says, yeah, this is going right.
- Remove the chicken and set it on a plate.
Step 4: Sauce magic
- Now the fun part. In that same pan — don’t even think about cleaning it — pour in your chicken broth. Scrape those browned bits stuck on the bottom. That’s flavor central.
- Add the lemon juice and capers. Stir, let it bubble a little, smell that? That’s the good stuff.
- Drop in the last tablespoon of butter. Watch it melt into silky heaven.
- Then slide your chicken back in. Let it simmer gently, like 3–5 minutes. Spoon that sauce over each piece, coat them real good.
- And just like that... done.
- Taste it. Adjust. Maybe a bit more lemon, maybe a pinch more salt. You’re the boss.
