Rooster Piccata – A Lovely Mess

This simple hen piccata recipe is a good weeknight dinner possibility if you want to make one thing flavorful with hen breasts. We eat hen typically at our home and I’m at all times oscillating between completely different flavors and this hits the Italian/Mediterranean profiles for me. Rooster piccata is an Italian American dish made with butter, lemon and capers. I like so as to add cream to my sauce, because it makes it a bit extra like Olive Backyard. Lol.

Capers are packed in brine and often discovered close to the inexperienced olives within the grocery retailer. They style much like inexperienced olives, however with a barely lemon/floral undertone. They’re excellent for this conventional hen piccata recipe, which I prefer to serve over pasta.

Associated: Love Italian American meals? Subsequent up, strive our Alfredo Sauce, Pomodoro Sauce or selfmade Pizza Sauce.

Components

• Rooster breast
• All-purpose flour
• Garlic powder
• Cayenne
• Salt
• Black pepper
• Butter
• Olive oil
• Rooster inventory
• Lemons
• Capers
• Cream – half and half or heavy cream
• Parsley
• Parmesan cheese

I serve hen piccata on fettuccine noodles often, however any noodle (penne, ziti, spaghetti, or angel hair pasta) you favor can work simply advantageous. You possibly can additionally serve this with gnocchi, mashed potatoes or rice when you needed.

Instructions

Reduce the hen breasts in half, lengthwise. Season all sides with a bit salt and pepper. On a plate with a lip or a pie pan mix the flour, garlic powder and cayenne. Dredge the hen items within the flour combination, coating all sides.

If you’re making pasta or rice with this recipe, go forward and start that preparation together with the hen and sauce.

In a big skillet or sauce pan, warmth one tablespoon of the butter and the olive oil over medium-high warmth. Cook dinner the hen cutlets for 3-4 minutes on both sides (6-8 minutes complete). Use a meat thermometer to examine that the inside has reached 160°F. When you don’t have a meat thermometer, reduce one of many items open to examine the hen is totally cooked and now not pink. Then take away the hen to a plate, protecting with aluminum foil to maintain heat as you make the sauce.

In the identical pan, soften the rest of the butter. Add the contemporary lemon juice, lemon zest and hen broth. Whisk to mix and take away any brown bits from the pan. Stir within the capers and cream.

You’ll be able to add the cooked hen again into the pan and simmer for a couple of minutes, or you may pour the hen piccata sauce over the hen after plating with pasta (or no matter aspect you might be serving this with). Both manner! Prime with contemporary parsley and Parmesan cheese if utilizing.

Ideas and Notes

• When you can’t discover capers, you can substitute sliced up inexperienced olives as a substitute.
• You’ll be able to substitute the hen inventory for dry white wine, like Chardonnay, when you like.
• My favourite approach to plate that is to toss the pasta within the piccata sauce (utilizing tongs), then I plate the pasta, slice the hen and add it excessive. And lastly, I drizzle or spoon the remaining sauce from the pan over the hen.
• If in case you have leftovers, one of the best storage IMO is to retailer the hen and sauce individually in hermetic containers within the fridge after which rewarm every earlier than combining. In any other case, I feel the hen will get form of soggy.

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