What Is Chicken Piccata?
- Womenscorner Desk
- October 20, 2020
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But seriously, this is often a very interesting question! If you grew up with parents that cooked often like we did or grew up eating out at Italian restaurants basically anywhere in America (hello, Olive Garden) you’re probably quite conversant in “chicken piccata” as we mean it a pan-fried chicken cutlet, topped with a lemon-butter piccata sauce. BUT! Chicken piccata as we all know it doesn’t actually seem to possess origins in Italy. It’s likely an Italian-American invention, a derivative of a few of different classic Italian cooking techniques, like scaloppine which suggests “thin slices of meat (such as veal) sautéed or coated with flour and fried”.
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A lemon and butter pan sauce may be a classic way of dressing pan-fried meat, and is common throughout Italy, but the (brilliant) addition of capers can’t be attributed to anybody place or time. However and whenever it came into being, chicken piccata is as far as we’re concerned a very welcome addition to any home cook’s repertoire.
