🍋 Lemon Chicken with Capers

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Pan-seared chicken breasts with a lemon, butter, and caper sauce, Italian piccata style.

⏱️ 25 min🍽️ 4 servings👩‍🍳 Easy🔥 412 calories per serving💪 36 g protein per serving

Ingredients

  • 1.3 lb (600 g) chicken breasts
  • about 1/3 cup (50 g) all-purpose flour
  • about 4 tbsp (60 g) butter
  • 1.5 tbsp (22 ml) olive oil
  • scant 1/2 cup (100 ml) white wine
  • 1 lemon
  • about 1.5 oz (40 g), 3 tbsp capers
  • 2/3 cup (150 ml) chicken broth
  • 5 pinches salt
  • 2 pinches black pepper

How to make it, step by step

  1. Pound the chicken breasts between sheets of plastic wrap so they are an even thickness.
  2. Season with salt and pepper and dredge lightly in flour. Shake off the excess.
  3. Brown them in butter and oil for 4 minutes per side.
  4. Remove the chicken and deglaze the pan with the white wine and lemon juice.
  5. Add the capers, chicken broth, and cold butter cut into cubes.
  6. Whisk the sauce until emulsified, return the chicken to the pan, and serve.

Nutrition facts (per serving)

412
calories
36 g
protein
14 g
carbs
22 g
fat

Values are approximate.

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