This chicken piccata recipe has a special place in my heart as the very first meal my husband made me for a dinner date at home together back when I was living in a tiny apartment in college and he was visiting. Now we regularly cook this meal together after our kids are in bed for the night. It’s a recipe that’s been passed down between family and friends for years and is an impressive, but easy meal that allows you to cut corners as needed.
Chicken Piccata
This meal is easy to cut corners and down on time by bringing home a rotisserie chicken and preparing a boxed Pastaroni angel hair pasta and herbs. Just make the sauce, spread over chicken, and enjoy.
Ingredients
- 4 marinated artichoke hearts (glass jar)
- 6 sun dried tomato halves in oil (glass jar)
- 1 tbsp nonpareilles capers (glass jar)
- 4 oz goat cheese crumbles
- 1/2 c whole whipping cream
- 1/2 lemon, juiced
- 2 chicken breasts
- Spray oil
- 1 pkg angel hair pasta
Directions
- Preheat oven to 450. Bring a pot of water to boil.
- Spray oil on a baking dish, then add chicken breasts. Spray oil over chicken breasts and season with salt and pepper to taste. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until internal temperature reaches 165.
- Add pasta to water and set a timer for the al dente time recommendation listed on the package.
- Open the sun dried tomato jar and add 1-2 tsp of the oil resting on top of tomatoes into a frying pan over medium heat. Add in the sun dried tomatoes and fry until starting to brown. Peel or cut the leaves off of 4 marinated artichoke hearts, add into skillet. Then add capers and lightly stir to fry for 2 minutes. Decrease heat.
- In the same skillet, pour in whole whipping cream and stir well until cream turns pink. Squeeze 1/2 lemon to juice and continue stirring until the sauce is thickened.
- Drain pasta, saving 1/4 cup of pasta water in pot, then add pasta back to the pot, stir, and set to the side.
- Finally, remove chicken from the oven once done and set onto plates. Use tongs to add pasta to plates. Then pour the sauce over chicken and top with goat cheese crumbles.
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