Easy Piccata Milanese with Piccata Sauce

Piccata Milanese is such a simple, flavorful chicken dish. The easy and amazing Piccata Sauce is made with olive oil, butter, lemon juice, wine and capers.  

I love quick and easy chicken recipes. This Piccata Milanese with Piccata Sauce is a family favorite – it comes together in less than 25 minutes! It’s a comforting Italian classic. Piccata is chicken breasts lightly dredged in flour and breadcrumbs, pan fried for a soft golden crust and finished with a light buttery piccata sauce.

You can serve it on its own drizzled in its delicious sauce or on a bed of pasta. Either way it’s amazing and sure to become your family favorite, too! I love serving it with Peas, Green Beans with Bacon, Caramelized Shallot Mashed Potatoes, Garlic Smashed Potatoes, or Garlic Mashed Cauliflower.

It’s so moist and the breadcrumbs covered in Piccata Sauce give this dish the best texture. It feels like such a special treat, yet comes in at just 261 calories per serving! It’s so satisfying.

Piccata is an Italian preparation of meat like chicken, veal or fish, where it is pounded or sliced, sautéed and served in a sauce comprised of lemon juice, butter, and capers.

If you love chicken, and you love pasta, don’t skip this incredible round-up of Chicken Pasta Recipes!

Piccata Ingredients

• Chicken Breasts – boneless skinless is preferred.
• Flour – all purpose flour is the foundation for breading
• Salt – a hint of salt brings out the flavor of all the other ingredients.
• Pepper – I always like to use fresh cracked black pepper for a thick flake, but any pepper will do.
• Egg + Water – egg and water allow the breadcrumbs to stick. Egg is also known for achieving that beautiful golden color.
• Bread Crumbs – the essential ingredient in piccata to achieve that amazing crust.
• Olive Oil – just enough to brown the breasts.

How to Make Piccata Milanese

There are so many methods of preparation of this amazing dish, but over the years I’ve simplified and perfected it. It’s quick and easy – ready in less than 30 minutes!

1. Preheat oven.
2. Place chicken breasts between 2 sheets of parchment paper or wax paper and pound it (I linked to my favorite tools below) to 1/4″ thick. Salt and pepper both sides.
3. Combine flour, salt, pepper and pour onto a shallow dish or dinner plate.
4. Beat egg and water. Pour onto another dinner plate.
5. Put breadcrumbs on a third plate.
6. Coat each chicken breast with flour mixture (removing excess flour), egg mixture, followed by breadcrumbs.
7. In a skillet over medium heat, warm olive oil. Cook chicken breasts for 2 minutes on each side until golden brown.
8. Place chicken breasts in a baking dish and bake 8 minutes.
9. Meanwhile, remove any brown bits in the sauté pan with a paper towel and melt butter oven medium heat. Increase heat to high and add lemon juice, white wine, capers, salt and pepper. Boil until reduced in half (2 minutes).
10. Spoon the piccata sauce over the chicken breasts and serve. Optional: serve with fresh chopped parsley or parmesan cheese.

Want to cook your meat to the perfect temperature, every time? Don’t miss this printable Meat Temperature Chart with all the guidelines you’ll ever need!

Piccata Sauce

This Piccata Sauce is so simple, yet so full of flavor! It’s is so amazing I want to drizzle it on everything! In fact, you’ll want to enjoy it by the spoonful.

Piccata Sauce is made with olive oil, butter, lemon juice, wine and capers. When the piccata sauce reduces it fills your home with the most amazing aroma. The alcohol in the wine burns off leaving it’s incredible essence.

If you love a delicious sauce as much as we do, don’t skip my classic Garlic Aioli or Chipotle Aioli recipes!

Piccata Sauce Ingredients

Butter – the ingredient that gives Piccata Milanese it’s melt-in-your-mouth quality. Salted or unsalted, it’s your choice!

Lemon Juice – a hint of lemon juice makes this dish taste bright and balances the flavors.

Wine – You can use your favorite white wine and enjoy the remainder of the bottle, which I highly recommend. Use a crisp or wine with high acidity that isn’t sweet.

• Pinot Grigio
• Pinot Gris
• Sauvignon Blanc
• Unoaked Chardonnay

White cooking wine will also do! Cooking wine only has 5% alcohol whereas a bottle of wine will generally have between 10-13% alcohol. Use whichever you prefer.

Capers – my favorite ingredient in Piccata Sauce! A caper in every bite.

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