Chicken Scallopini

This chickenhearted scallopini look is an Italian bistro favourite pinch a buttery citrus condiment topped pinch capers.

Holly’s Recipe Highlights

• Flavor: Fresh and lemony, chickenhearted scallopini has a condiment that’s some ray and buttery— awesome for day nighttime and easy capable for a engaged weeknight.
• Difficulty: One-skillet scallopini goes from nan stovetop to nan tabletop successful conscionable a fewer steps.
• Recommended Tools: A microplane is nan cleanable instrumentality for zesting everything from lemons to ginger.
• Ingredient Tip: Use a caller citrus arsenic you’ll request some nan juice and zest. When zesting nan lemon, zest conscionable nan yellowish portion of nan skin. The achromatic portion (called nan pith) is bitter.

Chicken Scallopini vs. Chicken Piccata

There is simply a quality betwixt scallopini and piccata. Scallopini intends thinly sliced pieces of meat, while piccata is much astir nan sauce. Scallopini tin besides beryllium made pinch a Marsala vino sauce.

Ingredient Tips For Chicken Scallopini

• Chicken: Use chickenhearted cutlets that are astir ½-inch thick.  You tin besides usage boneless, skinless chickenhearted breasts and trim them horizontally. ‘Scallopini’ refers to nan method, not nan protein; you tin make this look pinch veal aliases pork.
• Sauce: This lemony condiment couldn’t beryllium much straightforward to make and tastes champion pinch existent butter, caller citrus juice, and a barren achromatic wine. Chopped greenish olives tin beryllium utilized successful spot of capers.
• Variations: Add citrus capsicum to nan flour substance successful Step 2. Sauteed mushrooms and onions aliases steamed asparagus tin beryllium added to nan look astatine nan extremity of nan look successful Step 6.

How to Make Chicken Scallopini

1. Cook chickenhearted cutlets (full look below).
2. Cook food successful ail and whisk successful remaining ingredients (except parsley).
3. Return chickenhearted to nan cookware and simmer.
4. Garnish pinch parsley and citrus slices.

Ways to Serve Chicken Scallopini

Chicken scallopini is delicious pinch a broadside of grilled asparagus aliases roasted vegetables. It tin besides beryllium topped pinch garlic mashed potatoes, macaroni, aliases zucchini noodles if you want a lower-carb, lower-calorie entrée. Add a elemental tossed salad and meal is served.

Leftovers?

Keep leftover chickenhearted scallopini pinch its condiment successful a covered instrumentality for up to 4 days. Reheat nan chickenhearted and condiment connected nan stovetop connected mean power aliases successful nan microwave pinch immoderate other broth. Freeze portions successful zippered bags for up to 4 weeks and thaw successful nan refrigerator earlier reheating.

Make a shortcut scallopini by utilizing stiff and thawed chickenhearted cutlets. Simply hole nan condiment and simmer nan cutlets successful Step 6.

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