Straightforward Hen Piccata

Hen Piccata is one in every of my all-time favourite dishes, and it’s SO simple to make! Hen breasts are flippantly browned and simmered in a shiny lemon caper white wine sauce. Serve over pasta or with crusty artisan bread.

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Holly’s Recipe Highlights: Hen Piccata

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It is a restaurant-quality dish that comes collectively rapidly.

It makes use of easy elements that I all the time have available.

It appears fancy, but it surely’s truly fairly simple to make!

The sauce is shiny and flavorful with lemon, capers, and wine (or broth).

Complete Time: 50 Minutes Serves: 4 Cooking Methodology: Stovetop

What Is Hen Piccata?

Piccata is a dish with meat in a buttery lemon caper sauce. It is a hen piccata recipe, nonetheless, it may also be made with veal or shrimp (you’ll discover a 20-minute shrimp piccata in my cookbook). The sauce is vibrant however delicate, so I want to serve it with thinner pasta akin to angel hair or gentle linguine.

Ingredient Notes

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Hen: Select small, skinless, boneless hen breasts for this recipe. You may as well use hen cutlets or boneless skinless hen thighs on this recipe.
Broth: Hen broth is the bottom of this piccata sauce, including taste whereas balancing the lemon so it’s not overpowering. A easy butter and flour roux thickens it up.
Lemon: Recent lemon provides the most effective taste, I additionally add zest to the flour combine.
Capers: Capers have a tangy, briny, salty taste and are scrumptious. You possibly can substitute capers with chopped inexperienced olives, chopped artichoke hearts, or perhaps a very small quantity finely chopped anchovy.
Wine: Select a dry white wine like pinot grigio or substitute the wine with extra broth.

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The way to Make Hen Piccata

The Hen: Pound the hen and dredge it within the flour combination. Brown it on either side in a big skillet or braiser.
The Sauce: Add the flour and butter to the pan. Slowly add the broth. Then add the lemon juice, capers, and wine. Simmer till thickened.
The Ultimate Contact: Add the hen to the sauce till heated by way of.

Holly’s Useful Hen Picatta Suggestions

If the hen breasts are round 6oz every, gently pound to ½-inch thick. In the event that they’re bigger, you’ll be able to lower them in half crosswise earlier than pounding. This may assist them to cook dinner rapidly and evenly.

To pound hen, place the hen on a chopping board and canopy it with plastic wrap (to keep away from splatter). Use the flat aspect of a meat tenderizer or a rolling pin to softly pound the hen.

Pan-frying in batches helps the hen to brown higher.

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What to Serve With Hen Piccata

Pasta: Hen piccata has a scrumptious buttery lemon sauce, and it’s nice over a protracted, skinny pasta like angel hair or spaghettini.
Different starches: It may also be served with mashed potatoes, rice, noodles or a giant chunk of crusty bread for dipping (in the event you haven’t tried my simple artisan bread, it’s a favourite).
Veggies: I like to pair this simple hen piccata recipe with a recent inexperienced veggie like broccoli, asparagus, inexperienced beans, or Brussels sprouts.

Storing Leftovers

Retailer leftovers in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 4 days or within the freezer for as much as 4 months.

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Prep Time 20 minutes

Prepare dinner Time 30 minutes

Complete Time 50 minutes

Utilizing a meat mallet, gently pound every hen breast to ½-inch thick. See notes for bigger hen breasts.
Mix ½ cup all-purpose flour, lemon zest, salt, and pepper in a shallow bowl. Dip every hen breast within the flour combination, shaking off any extra.
In a 10-inch skillet, warmth the olive oil over medium-high warmth. Prepare dinner the hen in two batches for 4 to five minutes per aspect or till flippantly browned and cooked by way of (165°F). Take away from the skillet and put aside to maintain heat.
Cut back the warmth to medium and soften the butter in the identical skillet. Whisk in 1½ tablespoons flour, scraping up any brown bits, and cook dinner for two minutes.
Step by step add the hen broth, whisking till clean after every addition.
Add lemon juice, white wine, and capers. Simmer for 3 minutes, whisking sometimes.
Add the hen again into the skillet, and simmer within the sauce for two to three minutes or till heated by way of. Season with salt and pepper to style.
Stir within the chopped parsley and serve.

Hen: If the hen breasts are very giant (over 7oz), lower them in half crosswise and pound to ½-inch thick if wanted. It may be changed with hen thighs or veal—alter cooking time as wanted.
Sauce: Use recent lemon juice for the most effective taste. Capers may be changed with finely chopped inexperienced olive if desired.
Serving: I really like hen piccata with a skinny pasta like linguini or angel hair pasta. It may also be served with mashed potatoes or rice. Serve with roasted asparagus, steamed broccoli, or roasted cauliflower pair effectively.
Recent minced garlic may be added to the butter within the skillet if desired.
Leftovers: Hold leftovers in an hermetic container within the fridge for as much as 4 days.

Vitamin data offered is an estimate and can range based mostly on cooking strategies and types of elements used.

Course Hen, Dinner, Entree, Major Course

Delicacies American, Italian, Mediterranean

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