Chicken in White Wine Sauce is an easy, low calorie, delicious dinner entree. It can be served with a side of vegetables or enjoyed on a bed of pasta with white wine sauce. White Wine Chicken is light, yet full of flavor and takes less than 25 minutes to make!
We tend to eat a lot of chicken because it’s light, easy and so quick to make, which makes it a great weeknight dinner or easy entertaining recipe.
This Chicken in White Wine Sauce offers a lot of flavor for a little effort.
What’s in White Wine Chicken?
It’s made with chicken breasts, butter, shallots, capers, herbs and of course, wine!
You can use your favorite white wine and enjoy the remainder of the bottle, but white cooking wine will also do. Use a crisp or wine with high acidity that isn’t sweet.
I recommend selecting a Pinot Grigio, Pinot Gris, Sauvignon Blanc or an unoaked Chardonnay. Cooking wine only has 5% alcohol whereas a bottle of wine will generally have between 10-13% alcohol.
The alcohol in the wine evaporates while cooking (filling your kitchen with a beautiful aroma) leaving the chicken to soak up all the flavor.
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What to Serve with White Wine Chicken:
This dish is really versatile. Sometimes we’ll enjoy it with peas, green beans or Garlic Mashed Cauliflower Recipe {Cauliflower Garlic Mashed Potatoes}, Candied Carrots but it’s also great served as White Wine Chicken Pasta as well! You can get my White Wine Sauce recipe here.
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How to Make Chicken in White Wine Sauce:
- Sauté shallots in butter.
- Pour over chicken and add herbs, capers and wine.
- Bake 20 minutes. Remove from oven, cover in sauce.
- Allow to rest for 10 minutes and serve.
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Chicken in White Wine Sauce
Ingredients
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- In a skillet over medium heat, sauté shallots and butter.
- Place chicken in baking dish. Pour butter mixture oven chicken. Add wine, capers, bay leaves and parsley.
- Bake 20 minutes or until internal temperature reads 155˚F. Remove from oven.
- Pour sauce back over the top of the chicken breasts and allow to rest 10 minutes.
Julie’s Tips
- You can use white cooking wine, however a crisp or wine with high acidity that isn’t sweet will yield the best results.
- Choose a Pinot Grigio, Pinot Gris, Sauvignon Blanc or an unoaked Chardonnay for incredible flavor.
- Cooking wine only has 5% alcohol whereas a bottle of wine will generally have between 10-13% alcohol.
Estimated nutrition information is provided as a courtesy and is not guaranteed.
So simple yet so elegant, love it!
We love recipes like this. That sauce is calling my name!!
I love the fresh flavors in this dish! And of course it’s a bonus that it cooks up so quickly.
Did you serve it over something?
SO flavorful!!! Chicken is my go-to meat – thank you!!
Anything with wine sounds great to me! Love this recipe:-)