Chicken Piccata

30m
Serves 2
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Directions

  1. 1Butterfly your chicken.
  2. 2Place plastic wrap over the chicken.
  3. 3Pound the chicken.
  4. 4Carefully grab your chicken and flip it.
  5. 5Separate the chicken pieces.
  6. 6Place plastic wrap back over the chicken and pound it thin.
  7. 7Season with salt, bourbon smoked black pepper, and Dan-O's Original seasoning.
  8. 8Carefully flip the chicken and season the other side.
  9. 9Add self-rising flour (or all-purpose flour) to the chicken and coat it.
  10. 10Flip and coat the other side.
  11. 11Pat the flour into the chicken.
  12. 12Add salt to boiling water.
  13. 13Add cavatappi noodles to the boiling water.
  14. 14Light the stove and heat up the pan.
  15. 15Add a couple of tablespoons of butter and some olive oil to the pan.
  16. 16Mix the oil and butter.
  17. 17Give the chicken one last rotation in the flour before placing it in the pan.
  18. 18Place the chicken into the hot oil and butter.
  19. 19After a couple of minutes, flip the chicken.
  20. 20Once the chicken is perfectly cooked, pull it out and set it aside.
  21. 21Open the white wine.
  22. 22Add a handful of capers and some fresh thyme to the pan.
  23. 23Take a fork and mash a few of the capers to open up their flavor.
  24. 24Add one pound of sliced and rinsed white mushrooms to the pan.
  25. 25Let the mushrooms cook down for ten minutes while the pasta finishes.
  26. 26Take about a tablespoon and a half of butter, drop it into your flour, and work the butter into the flour until it's heavily coated.
  27. 27Sprinkle the flour and butter mixture into the pan to thicken the sauce.
  28. 28Move the sauce around to thicken it up.
  29. 29Add a little more white wine to the sauce.
  30. 30Lay the cooked chicken back into the gravy.
  31. 31Turn the stove to a low simmer.
  32. 32Strain the cavatappi noodles.
  33. 33Plate up the cavatappi noodles.
  34. 34Add the chicken piccata to the plate.
  35. 35Spoon the gravy over the chicken.
  36. 36Zest fresh lemon over the dish.
  37. 37Add a sprig of fresh oregano for garnish.

Ingredients

  • 2 pieces chicken
  • salt
  • bourbon smoked black pepper
  • Dan-O's Original seasoning
  • self-rising flour
  • cavatappi noodles
  • 2 tablespoons butter
  • olive oil
  • 1 handful capers
  • 1 pound white mushrooms
  • white wine
  • 1 whole lemon
  • 1 sprig fresh oregano

Equipment

knifecutting boardplastic wrapmeat tenderizerpantongscolanderspoon

Tips

  • For the gravy, mix about a tablespoon and a half of butter into flour and sprinkle it in to thicken the sauce.