Easy Chicken Piccata

Name: Easy Chicken Piccata
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1/2 cup, salt; 1/2 cup, sugar; 8 , boneless, skinless chicken cutlets (about 2 pounds), thin-cut; , pepper; 1/4 cup, all-purpose flour; 4 tablespoons, unsalted butter; 2 , garlic cloves, minced; 2 tablespoons, drained capers; 1 cup, low-sodium chicken broth; 1/2 cup, white wine; 4 strips, lemon zest (each about 2 inches long) and 2 tablespoons juice from 1 lemon

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2009

Main Courses

Italian

Chicken

Though it looks and sounds impressive, chicken piccata is very simple to make. For potent-yet-balanced lemon flavor, we use strips of lemon zest as well as fresh lemon juice in the sauce.

SERVES4

TIME55 minutes

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

Increasing the salinity of a normal brine allowed the thin cutlets to reap all the benefits of brining in a shorter time. Brining also ensured the cutlets remained moist while browning. Most recipes for Chicken Piccata removed the chicken a...

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