Description
All the best that chicken piccata has to offer, but baked. Not fried.
Ingredients
Units
Scale
- 1 whole Chicken Breasts
- 1 1/2 cup Panko Bread Crumbs
- 3 Tablespoons Olive Oil, divided
- 1 whole egg, whisked
- 1 cup Flour, Plus 1 1/2 tablespoon
- 4 ounces Whole Wheat Thin Spaghetti
- 3 cloves Garlic, minced
- 1/2 tsp Red Chili Flakes
- 1 Tbsp Capers
- 1 whole Lemon, juiced
- 1 whole Lemon, sliced thinly
- 1 1/2 cup Reduced Sodium Chicken Broth
- 1 Tbsp Butter, softened
- Canola Oil Spray
Instructions
Chicken:
- Preheat oven to 450 degrees.
- In non-stick skillet over medium heat, heat up 1 1/2 tablespoons olive oil.
- Pour in panko bread crumbs and toast by stirring with wooden spoon until they develop a golden brown color. Pour into shallow bowl or rimmed plate and allow to cool.
- In two other separate bowls, place 1 cup flour and 1 whisked egg. These will be the coatings for your chicken.
- Fillet chicken breast into two halves. With the flat side of a meat tenderizer, flatten chicken breast pieces until they are of even thickness, about 1/2″ thick.
- Dredge each piece in flour, covering thoroughly. Then dip into egg wash, coating thoroughly. Then transfer and coat with toasted panko crumbs. Place onto a non-stick spray coated baking pan. Repeat with other chicken breast.
- Bake for about 10 minutes at 450 degrees or until chicken breast registers 160 degrees.
- Remove from oven and set aside.
Pasta:
- In medium/large sauce pan, heat water to a boil and cook pasta according to package directions.
- Drain and cover to keep warm until use.
Sauce:
- In large non-stick skillet heat remaining olive oil over medium heat.
- Add in garlic until it becomes aromatic, about 30 seconds.
- Stir in chili pepper flakes, lemon juice, lemon slices, chicken broth, and capers. Stir and reduce by about one half. Increase heat if necessary to promote reduction.
- When the liquid is reduced, in small ramekin stir together 1 1/2 tablespoon of flour and softened butter. This will create a thickening agent for the sauce.
- Whisk into reduced sauce pan and bring to a boil. Continue to stir until sauce has thickened. Remove from heat.
Final Assembly:
- When chicken has baked and is golden brown, sauce is thickened and spaghetti is done cooking, plate spaghetti, resting one chicken breast on top and cover with sauce.
- Garnish with sliced lemon and basil. Devour while warm.
Notes
Adapted from The Culinary Chronicles Chicken Piccata and Angel Hair Pasta and America’s Test Kitchen Healthy Chicken Parmesan.