🍋 Lemon Chicken with Capers

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