Easy Chicken Piccata

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Appears in Cook's Country December/January 2009

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

Easy Chicken Piccata

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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