How to Cook Perfect Chicken Piccata

Chicken Piccata.

You can have Chicken Piccata using 7 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Chicken Piccata

1. You need of skinless, boneless chicken breasts.
2. Prepare of Oilve oil.
3. You need of Capers, rinsed.
4. It's of garlic clove, crushed.
5. Prepare of lemon tested, and juiced and 1/2 sliced.
6. You need of Chicken stock.
7. It's of flat leaf parsley, chopped.

Chicken Piccata step by step

1. Cut the chicken breasts through the middle lengthwise to open them out like a book. Put them between 2 pieces of plastic wrap and pound them out with a mallet or rolling pin until 1 centimeter thick..
2. Heat 1 tsp. oil in frying pan. Fry the flattened chicken breasts for 4 minutes on each side until golden brown and cooked through. Remove from pan, season and leave to rest under foil..
3. Add the capers and garlic and fry for 1 minute, then add the lemon juice, zest and stock. Simmer for a few minutes until the sauce thickens slightly..
4. Add the chicken back to the pan, with the lemon slices and parsley, and spoon over the sauce. Serve with green salad and cauliflower rice. (Optional).