A lemony, healthy chicken piccata recipe that is easy enough for a busy weeknight dinner. I’ve cut the carbs but kept the flavor. This is a quick and easy dinner recipe that will take you less than 30 minutes to prepare.
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Can you eat healthy and love the food you eat of course you can today we’re going to take some beautiful lemons and some boneless chicken breasts and make a week night dinner that you and your family will love it’s easy chicken picata and the side benefit of this is
That it’s healthy chicken picata you are going to want to make this every single week to make this dinner you’ll want to thaw some boneless chicken breasts gather up some chicken stock olive oil some Capers your lemons a little butter some garlic and some salt and pepper and
You’re good to go my first tip for eating more healthfully during your weeknight dinners begins at the grocery store with the ingredients that you select and that is to choose simple ingredients choose the ingredients that are the freshest nonprocessed don’t have a lot of added ingredience that you
Can’t pronounce make sure that you actually know what it is that you’re putting into your body squeeze one lemon so that you get a/4 of a cup of fresh lemon juice measure out 1/2 cup of a good tasting chicken broth or chicken stock because it’s very important in
This dish and Pat your chicken breast dry so that you can sprinkle and season them with salt and pepper I like to use both a coarse salt and a coarse pepper on my chicken cutlets because we’re not putting a breading on the cutlets add 2 tablespoons of unsalted butter and about
A a tablespoon or two of olive oil to your pan over medium high heat once your oil and butter come to temperature place your chicken breast into the pan can you hear the sizzle you want to have a Sizzle cuz you want to get some color on your chicken
Breast now one of the things that I didn’t do with these is pound them out really thin that’s because I want to have them get some color on them without cooking all the way through and getting dry so I left these pieces of chicken a little bit thicker than I might have
Done with a traditional chicken picata check your chicken periodically until you get to a point where you see some nice Browning some nice color and then it’s time to flip I’m going to remove them from the pan to a clean plate to rest while I make the chicken picata
Sauce turn your heat down to medium low there are lots of nice bits in this pan with the uh the bits that are in the pan I’m adding the chicken stock to the pan and the lemon juice I’m going to bring the lemon juice and the chicken stock to a boil then
Turn it to simmer and let it simmer to reduce once your chicken stock comes to a simmer crush a clove of garlic into the sauce stir that in well and add your Capers couple tablespoons of Capers and let that continue to cook and reduce you want to taste your sauce lemony got
Icky little Briney with the Capers that’s just the way I like it I’m going to add my chicken breast back into the sauce to finish cooking including all the yummy juices going to cover and let this cook for about another 5 to 10 minutes till the chicken comes to
Temperature when your chicken breasts reach 165° on your meat thermometer give your sauce a little taste and you can add a tablespoon or two of butter at the very end to make your sauce a little bit silkier serve your chicken picata with spoonfuls of the picata sauce drizzled over the chicken
Breasts side of roasted asparagus topped with melted parmesan cheese some lemon wedges and a Sprinkle Ling of parsley I’ve had a number of my followers ask for more healthy easy quick weeknight recipes and today’s chicken picata recipe does that as I was editing this chicken picata recipe video
For you it came to mind that there were some questions that I had that I thought you might also have and one of the first things I want to address is the definition of healthy and what that means for me now for me the definition of healthy is all about my personal
Needs as it relates to health and I hope that’s the same for you but in the case of a healthy recipe for me it is going to be a re a recipe that is made with nonprocessed ingredients that is focused on reducing carbs carbohydrates and
Sugars and will allow me to adhere to a lower carb and ketofriendly diet diet now if that’s not what is right for you then my recipes won’t speak to you from a healthy perspective but at least I want you to have that as the framework
For what healthy means to me one of the ways that we can modify our favorite recipes no matter what they are is to think about the elements of that recipe that we actually love what are the things we can afford to alter in the recipe to allow ow us to have the same
Flavors textures uh satisfaction that we get from the food without the things that are determined to be unhealthy for us so in the case of chicken picata I love the lemon I love the Capers the flavor from the chicken broth all of those are easy to include in the recipe but we can
Easily eliminate the carb Elements by leaving out any of the flour-based elements of the recipe as well as not serving it with rice or with pasta instead supplementing with healthy vegetables that’s what I love about it because we eliminate the egg and the flour for dredging in this healthy
Chicken picata recipe we are going to eliminate one of the elements that creates flavor and that is that the crust that it comes onto the chicken breast in the traditional chicken picata recipe will absorb some of the flavors from from the sauce as it simmers in the
Sauce so you are going to want to let your chicken simmer in the sauce for a littleit little bit longer than you wouldn’t do with a traditional chicken picata recipe so for that reason I recommend that you leave your chicken breasts a little thicker about between
A/4 in and a half an inch thick so that your chicken will not dry out and be tough when you’re ready to serve it can you make chicken picata ahead of time I suppose you could and then reheat it gently but it’s so quick to make I don’t
Think you need to do that one of the things you can do is get your chicken breast ready salted and peppered uh make sure all the ingredients are ready to go and then it’s just a matter of minutes in the pan uh between 15 and 30 minutes depending on how thin your chicken
Breasts are cut in order to Plate your chicken picata it really is a healthy week night dinner so I hope you’ll try it and uh enjoy it healthy chicken Picata