Creamy Grilled Chicken Piccata – grilled lemon herb chicken over a creamy piccata sauce. SO good! Better than any restaurant! We make this at least once a month!
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Pin This RecipeA few weeks ago, I saw a recipe for a lemon pasta dish, and I immediately thought “Yuck! Lemon and Pasta sounds nasty!” BUT, I took a minute and thought about how much we love chicken piccata, so why not try a Creamy Chicken Piccata. I decided to give it a shot.
The experiment paid off big time. We LOVED this dish. I made the sauce while the chicken was on the grill and just tossed it together – SIMPLE! I marinated the chicken in some lemon and garlic so it would go with the sauce. I took our usual piccata sauce and just added cream to it (well, I did half and half, but cream would be even better). The chicken would be good just on its own, but the creamy lemon caper sauce just puts it over the top. I love when a recipe comes together just like you pictured it in your mind!
As I said, this was a HUGE hit at our house. We’ve made it several times and just love it. This chicken pasta is great with a salad and some garlic bread. Here are a few of our favorite recipes from the blog that go great with this yummy pasta:
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Creamy Grilled Chicken Piccata
Ingredients:
Chicken
- Juice of 1 lemon, 3 Tbsp
- 3 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 Tbsp minced garlic
- 1 tsp salt
- ¼ tsp black pepper
- ½ tsp basil or oregano
- 2 boneless skinless chicken breasts
Pasta
- 2 cups dried penne pasta
- 2 Tbsp butter
- Juice of 2 lemons, 6 Tbsp
- 1 Tbsp minced garlic
- ½ cup half and half or heavy cream
- 2 tsp dried basil
- 2 Tbps capers
- ½ cup grated parmesan cheese
Instructions:
Chicken
- Combine first 6 ingredients and mix well. Place chicken in a ziplock bag and pour marinade over chicken. Marinate a few hours to overnight in the refrigerator.
- When ready, grill until done. Allow chicken to rest for a few minutes and then slice into strips to serve over pasta.
Pasta
- While chicken is grilling. Cook pasta according to directions (10-12 minutes). Reserve ½ cup of pasta water and drain.
- In the same saucepan, melt butter over medium heat. Whisk in garlic and lemon juice. Pour in half-and-half and whisk until hot. Add some salt and pepper to taste. Add the parmesan cheese, basil and capers, and heat until cheese is melted.
- Check the consistency of the sauce and add some of the reserved pasta water to loosen the sauce if necessary. Toss in pasta.
- Serve in pasta bowls with grilled chicken on top. Sprinkle with more parmesan if desired.
Steph
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I have made this now twice and my family raves about it. My husband comes from a family of cooks and when he ate this meal he said it was an emotional meal for him…lol. its delicious!
Just made this – pan seared for about a minute and a half and then threw the chicken with its "marinade" and 1/2 cup water in the oven, covered, for 16 minutes at 325. Used egg noodles and had to add more Parmesan, half and half, and butter to get the flavor I was gearing for. My "chicken and rice" and "beef and potato" family absolutely loved it! A quick suggestion to all the "bad experiences" – TASTE IT WHILE COOKING!! The best part of making things at home is that you can tailor the recipes to your liking!
Thank you do much for the recipe – with a few adjustments this has been added to our menu plan!! You have won a new follower for sure
This has become one of our very favorite dishes! I absolutely adore it! My daughter doesn't like the capers, so I just serve them on the side now (I think it adds so much to the dish).
Also, to save time, sometimes I buy Trader Joe's fresh pre-grilled chicken strips and still marinate them. I just heat them up in the microwave while I cook the pasta, & it is just as yummy 🙂
Jennifer – you can pan sear the chicken about 3-4 minutes per side (depending on how big the chicken is) or you can bake it in the oven for about 20 minutes. I prefer to pan sear the chicken – I like the color it gets from cooking in the pan.
Any suggestions on how to amend this recipe to not use the grill, could I bake the chicken in the oven instead?
This is a very lemony dish, I will try this again with less lemon. I left out the capers and used thin slices do green onion as a garnish.
Also – to those who are complaining…with dishes like this, it's impossible for everyone to get the same taste with the exact measurements given. A prime example being bottled lemon juice is stronger than fresh lemon juice. I use bottled, and cut down on the amount I use. Just use common sense and keep tasting everything periodically while cooking so you know if you need to add anything. I used the recipe more like a guideline and tailored it to suit my needs and tastebuds…cooking isn't like baking, where everything is exactly measured out…that's why I love it! Room for experimentation 🙂
This is probably my all-time favorite pasta recipe! Something I wish I could have every day, in fact (but I don't!). Love love love it.
It was really good even though my sauce didn't turn out right. I'm going to try it again.
Mom loved it, baby boy wouldn't try it, and husband endured it. Too much lemon for him. Next time, we will reduce the amount of lemon by half. He was puckering throughout the meal.
I just made this for lunch and I thought my husband had died and gone to heaven!!! He LOVED it!!! I didn't use 3 tbsp of lemon juice because I didn't have that much, but I used all that I had. Maybe 1-2tbsp. We grilled the chicken and it was PERFECT!!!!!!! Since I didn't have any lemon juice for the sauce, I left that out, as well as the capers. I liked the sauce like that. We will definitely be making this again! I served it alongside some broccoli and applesauce.
WOW! This was absolutely disgusting!!! I just made this and had to throw it all away… noodles and chicken!! I read everyones comments and hoped the bad ones weren't true. Oh but they are. Nasty Nasty Nasty!! Lemon is too strong and I still cut the measurements in HALF! Soo disappointed. Don't make this save yourself time and money!
We made this tonight and it is delicious. I loved all of it and had no problems with the recipe. We will definitely make it again.
absolutely horrible. literally the worst thing we have ever made, It tasted so bad i thought i had to of made a mistake on measurements but after my fiancee and i triple read the recipe we finally realized it is just a god awful dish! YUCK
I have some kale that needs using, and usually I make a penne and feta mixture with it. The whole time I was reading your recipe I kept thinking how good this sauce would taste with the kale. Either way, it is a must try! YUM!
Just made this for dinner, delicious! I only had 1 lemon left for the sauce, and it ended up being the perfect amount for me.