Hen Piccata – A Stunning Mess

This simple hen piccata recipe is a superb weeknight dinner possibility once you want to make one thing flavorful with hen breasts. We eat hen usually at our home and I’m all the time oscillating between completely different flavors and this hits the Italian/Mediterranean profiles for me. Hen 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 wish to serve over pasta.

Associated: Love Italian American meals? Subsequent up, attempt our Alfredo Sauce, Pomodoro Sauce or do-it-yourself Pizza Sauce.

Substances

• Hen breast
• All-purpose flour
• Garlic powder
• Cayenne
• Salt
• Black pepper
• Butter
• Olive oil
• Hen 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 like can work simply effective. You could possibly additionally serve this with gnocchi, mashed potatoes or rice if you happen to needed.

Instructions

Reduce the hen breasts in half, lengthwise. Season all sides with just a little 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 whole). Use a meat thermometer to examine that the inside has reached 160°F. If you happen to don’t have a meat thermometer, minimize one of many items open to examine the hen is totally cooked and now not pink. Then take away the hen to a plate, overlaying 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 possibly can add the cooked hen again into the pan and simmer for a couple of minutes, or you possibly can pour the hen piccata sauce over the hen after plating with pasta (or no matter aspect you might be serving this with). Both method! High with contemporary parsley and Parmesan cheese if utilizing.

Suggestions and Notes

• If you happen to can’t discover capers, you can substitute sliced up inexperienced olives as a substitute.
• You possibly can substitute the hen inventory for dry white wine, like Chardonnay, if you happen to like.
• My favourite solution 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, the most effective 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 believe the hen will get type of soggy.

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