Cooking Diaries E5 Chicken Piccata, Easy, lemony and delicious. Buonissimo🇮🇹

chicken breasts

🥗Healthier: chicken thighs

💰Cheaper: chicken thighs

Thighs are often more affordable and juicier.

butter

🥗Healthier: olive oil

💰Cheaper: margarine

Olive oil is healthier and can be cheaper in bulk.

Cut chicken breast into several pieces and slice it lengthwise.

Pound the chicken pieces lightly to shorten cooking time without tearing them.

Heat approximately 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a skillet on an electric stove.

Season plain all-purpose flour with salt and white pepper.

Coat the pounded chicken pieces in the seasoned flour.

Cook the chicken in the skillet for about 1.5 to 2 minutes on one side, then flip it over and cook for the same amount of time on the other side.

Drain excess oil from the skillet and deglaze with a shot of white wine, allowing it to evaporate.

Add butter to the skillet to create a creamy emulsion sauce, then add a little water or chicken stock to cool it down.

Squeeze the juice of approximately 11 lemons into the sauce and taste for seasoning.

Prepare pasta by boiling it until just cooked, timing it to finish as the sauce is ready.

Chop one clove of garlic and heat oil in a separate pan until it shimmers.

Add the chopped garlic to the hot oil and sauté until fragrant.

Combine the freshly boiled pasta with the garlic oil, adding reserved pasta water if needed for texture.

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