Chicken Piccata

Chicken Piccata is one of the quickest and easiest dishes I've done in a long time.

It perfectly served hubby and me for dinner. I served it with a bunch of steamed asparagus. I served it on plates, but next time will serve in my pasta bowls because the juice from the piccata was wonderful poured over the chicken and the asparagus.

I followed the recipe except using 1/4 cup wine, I used 1/2 cup water and added a chicken bouillon cube. Not sure why I used 1/2 cup. But I'm glad I did. We loved pouring the sauce over everything. And for me, I don't really like lemon that much. So even with 1/2 cup water the juice from one lemon made it to lemon tasting for me. Hubby loved it.

Funny story... the recipe calls for capers. Now I don't know why, but I was thinking peppercorns were capers. So I had just opened my jar and had poured a tablespoon full of the peppercorns and was about to put it in the lemon sauce when I happened to stop and mentioned to hubby "is peppercorns the same as capers?" And of course being the grocery man he is, I got a resounding No! So hubby ran to the store to get capers and saved the day.

This is a great dish and we both commented how much we love eating from this book. Our lifestyle is changing and we are loving it!

I'll be at my daughters for a week and won't be taking my cookbook, so will chat with you next week!