Monday Menu: Chicken Piccata

Continuing with the lemon theme, this dish is super easy to prepare and delicious.  The recipe for those delicious butter potatoes can be found here.

Chicken Piccata

• 1 cup Italian breadcrumbs
• 1 tsp basil, crushed
• 1 tbsp lemon zest
• 1/8 tsp pepper
• 1 tsp crushed garlic
• ½ tbsp olive oil
• 4 boneless chicken breasts, pounded flat
• 1 tbsp butter
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• 1 lemon, sliced into very thin slices*
• ½ cup water
• 2 tbsp fresh snipped parsley
• 3 tbsp lemon juice

bowl, skillet

Combine breadcrumbs, basil, zest, and pepper in bowl. Mix ½ tbsp oil and garlic together. Coat both sides of chicken with oil/garlic and dredge in breadcrumbs. Over medium-high heat 1 tbsp ea. of butter and oil in skillet, add chicken and cook 4-5 minutes on each side. Remove chicken – keep warm – add lemon slices to pan, sauté 30 seconds, add water, parsley and juice, boil for 1 minute, spoon over chicken.

*Scrub well before slicing.