Our Lemon Caper Chicken is a classic chicken dinner that every cook needs to have in their recipe line up! Tender thin chicken breasts are lightly floured and cooked in a light white wine and lemon sauce with tangy capers and fresh parsley.
Lemon Caper Chicken
Lemon Caper Chicken, tender thin chicken breasts in a light lemon sauce with tangy capers, is a classic dish that every cook needs to have in their recipe line up. And now you will!
Also known as chicken piccata, our recipe will quickly become a family favorite dinner.
Tender thin chicken breasts are lightly floured and cooked in a light white wine and lemon sauce with tangy capers and fresh parsley.
Chicken piccata sauce is so easy to make you'll wonder why you haven't been making it before now.
I like to serve my chicken piccata with baby spinach that I wilt slightly in the homemade lemon sauce.
This easy chicken recipe will become your go-to recipe for a weeknight dinner and will even impress your guests when entertaining.
I mean really now, who wouldn't love chicken with lemon and capers and white wine? You're welcome!
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What Is Chicken Piccata?
Chicken Piccata is an easy recipe for chicken breasts that have been dredged in flour and sauteed on the stove top. Then a simple sauce made with lemon and capers finishes off this classic chicken dish.
Homemade Sauces For Chicken
Wait until you see how versatile this lemon chicken sauce can be!
Prefer no capers? Leave them out and you'll have a basic lemon sauce.
Now take that basic lemon sauce and make it anything you want it to be!
- Stir in a bit of Dijon mustard for a Lemon Dijon Sauce.
- Add chopped fresh dill and it becomes Lemon Dill Sauce!
- Give it a French twist with chopped fresh tarragon stirred in.
Let your imagination create your next sauce!
How to make easy chicken piccata
Scroll down for the full recipe instructions and ingredient amounts in the recipe card below
- Combine flour, kosher salt and cracked black pepper. Lightly coat both sides of chicken pieces in the flour mixture. Reserve the remaining flour mixture.
- Heat oil and 1 Tablespoon butter in a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Brown chicken on both sides; set aside.
- Add wine to skillet and boil 1 minute, scraping up any brown bits.
- Combine reserved flour mixture and chicken broth, stirring until smooth and add to skillet. Bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to medium-low and add lemon slices and reserved chicken to skillet. Simmer until sauce has thickened and chicken is cooked through.
- Stir in baby spinach, if desired, capers, lemon juice and remaining 1 Tablespoon butter and cook until spinach is just wilted and butter is melted.
Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve with hot cooked pasta or egg noodles, if desired.
Swirls of Flavor Recipe Tips
- Make your own thinly sliced chicken breasts. Simply slice thicker chicken breasts in half horizontally to create thinly sliced breasts.
- You can also use a meat mallet and pound thicker chicken breasts between two pieces of plastic wrap until they are thinner
- Serve with white rice or orzo pasta
Substitutions
- Substitute additional chicken broth for the white wine
- Substitute baby kale for the baby spinach
What to serve with chicken piccata
Chicken piccata is delicious when served with:
- Egg noodles
- Orzo
- Rice
- Mashed potatoes
- A tossed salad
- Broccoli
- Green beans
- Carrots With Tops
Ingredients for lemon chicken piccata
- Flour – forms a light coating on the chicken
- kosher salt – brings out flavor
- cracked black pepper – adds a savory note
- thin sliced boneless skinless chicken breasts – tender chicken pieces that cook quickly
- olive oil – helps to saute the chicken
- butter – adds body to the sauce
- white wine – adds flavor to the sauce
- chicken broth – adds volume and flavor to the lemon sauce
- lemon – adds citrus flavor
- baby spinach – adds texture
- capers – add flavors of olive, lemon and salt
- lemon juice – citrus juice for the sauce
- parsley – adds a fresh bright herb flavor
- hot cooked fettuccini – a delicious side dish for this chicken recipe
Easy Chicken Recipes
Chicken for dinner can be such a comforting meal and these easy chicken dinner recipes will definitely be on your list of comfort food dinners.
- Indian Butter Chicken combines warm spices with the simple ingredients of onion, butter, tomato and garlic creating tender chicken in a creamy tomato sauce. An easy chicken dinner that makes an impressive meal for entertaining too!
- Baked Panko-Crusted Chicken Caprese, warm, perfectly seasoned, baked chicken is topped with the flavors of fresh mozzarella, garden fresh plum tomatoes and fresh basil leaves.
- Creamy Tomato Basil Chicken & Pasta combines the best of both worlds, chicken and pasta and makes it’s own velvety tomato sauce and gets it’s creaminess from a secret ingredient….cream cheese!
- Thai Chicken Lettuce Wraps combine ground chicken with fresh ginger, garlic and Thai basil for a burst of Thailand flavor! A quick cook on the stove top, spoon into lettuce leaves and drizzle with fresh lime juice and your taste buds will thank you!
Lemon Caper Chicken
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Ingredients
- 3 Tbs. flour
- 1/4 tsp. kosher salt
- 1/4 tsp. cracked black pepper
- 1 lb. thin sliced boneless skinless chicken breasts
- 2 Tbs. olive oil
- 2 Tbs. butter, divided
- 1/4 cup white wine
- 1 1/2 cups chicken broth
- 4 lemon slices
- 1 cup baby spinach, optional
- 1/4 cup capers , drained and rinsed
- 1 Tbs. lemon juice
- 1 Tbs. chopped parsley
- hot cooked fettuccine or egg noodles, serving suggestion
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Instructions
- Combine flour, kosher salt and cracked black pepper . Lightly coat both sides of chicken pieces in flour mixture. Reserve remaining flour mixture.
- Heat oil and 1 Tablespoon butter in large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat.
- Brown chicken on both sides; set aside.
- Add wine to skillet and boil 1 minute, scraping up any brown bits.
- Combine reserved flour mixture and chicken broth, stirring until smooth and add to skillet. Bring to a boil.
- Reduce heat to medium-low and add lemon slices and reserved chicken to skillet. Simmer until sauce has thickened and chicken is cooked through, 3-4 minutes.
- Stir in baby spinach, if desired, capers, lemon juice and remaining 1 Tablespoon butter and cook until spinach is just wilted and butter is melted, about 1 minute.
- Sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve with hot cooked pasta or egg noodles, if desired.
Notes
- Make your own thinly sliced chicken breasts. Simply slice thicker chicken breasts in half horizontally to create thinly sliced breasts.
- You can also use a meat mallet and pound thicker chicken breasts until then are thinner
- Serve with white rice or orzo pasta
- Substitute additional chicken broth for the white wine
- Substitute baby kale for the baby spinach
- Egg noodles
- Orzo
- Rice
- Mashed potatoes
- A tossed salad
- Broccoli
- Green beans
- Carrots With Tops
Nutrition
Great recipe
Thanks so much Bill. And thank you for stopping by Swirls. I truly appreciate it! Savor the Moment, GG