Simple Way to Make Ultimate Lemon Chicken Breasts with Capers

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Lemon Chicken Breasts with Capers is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Lemon Chicken Breasts with Capers is something which I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have lemon chicken breasts with capers using 12 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Lemon Chicken Breasts with Capers:

1. Make ready 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
2. Prepare freshly grated parmigiano-reggiano cheese
3. Get fine, dry breadcrumbs
4. Prepare capers, rinsed, drained, patted dry, and chopped
5. Make ready lemon, zested and juiced
6. Make ready fresh flat-leaf parsley
7. Get Kosher salt
8. Take freshly ground black pepper
9. Prepare butter
10. Prepare olive oil
11. Make ready garlic cloves, thinly sliced
12. Take lower-sodium chicken broth

Steps to make Lemon Chicken Breasts with Capers:

1. Position a rack in the center of the oven and heat the oven to 425°F.
2. Make a lengthwise horizontal slice almost through each chicken breast and open each up like a book.
3. Flatten the chicken with a meat mallet until it is 1/4" thick.
4. put the cheese, breadcrumbs, 3 Tbsp capers, lemon zest, and 1 Tbsp parsley in a mini chopper of food processor and pulse a few times to combine.
5. Sprinkle the mixture on top of the chicken breasts.
6. Fold each breast closed and secure with toothpicks.
7. Sprinkle the breasts with salt and pepper.
8. Heat 1 Tbsp butter and the oil in a large (12"), heavy-duty, oven-proof skillet over medium-high heat until the butter melts and starts to foam, about 2 minutes.
9. Add the chicken and cook, without touching, until it browns and easily releases from the pan, about 2 minutes.
10. Turn the chicken and cook the other side until browned, about 2 more minutes.
11. Add the garlic and the remaining 1 Tbsp capers to the skillet, transfer the pan to the oven, and roast uncovered until the chicken cooks through (165°F), about 8 minutes.
12. Transfer the chicken to a serving platter and tent with foil.
13. Set the skillet over medium-high heat; add the chicken broth and cook, scraping the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon to loosen any brown bits, until it reduces by half, about 2 minutes.
14. Remove from heat and whisk in 2 Tbsp of the lemon juice and the remaining 2 Tbsp of butter.
15. Taste and add more lemon juice, salt, and pepper, if needed.
16. Serve the chicken drizzled with the butter sauce and sprinkled with the remaining 1 Tbsp parsley.

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