Italian
Chicken Piccata
Chicken Piccata is Italian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
- 3 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
- 3 tbsp capers
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/4 cup chopped parsley
- 1/2 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Halve the chicken breasts horizontally, pound them thin, and season with salt.
- Dredge the cutlets in flour, shaking off the excess.
- Heat the olive oil and 1 tbsp butter in a skillet over medium-high and cook the cutlets until golden, about 3 minutes per side, then set aside.
- Add the garlic to the pan for 30 seconds, then pour in the chicken broth, lemon juice, and capers, scraping up the browned bits.
- Simmer until slightly reduced, about 4 minutes, then swirl in the remaining butter.
- Return the chicken to warm through, sprinkle with parsley, and serve.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Chicken Piccata carries dairy and gluten. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | Yes | Chicken Cacciatore |
| Gluten | Yes | Butternut Squash Risotto |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Moderate
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish, Grains, and Dairy
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Chicken Piccata takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on chicken, lemon, and caper.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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