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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So so good! Fresh and yummy!!!
Two questions how many ounces of parm…1/2 cup parms is pretty subjective. Also in regards to pasta what weight is two cups pasta?
Oh my goodness! This is delicious!! I added sliced mushrooms and chopped artichokes. I didn’t think the kids would eat it, but they gobbled it up and raves about it. I will double it next time for sure – which will be very soon!!
I think this would be extra wonderful with mushrooms and artichokes! SO glad you enjoyed it.
Wow my fiance and I loved this!The chicken marinated in my fridge for about 14 hours from frozen, we grilled according to package directions and it was perfection. Our chicken was a tad dry, yet very tender almost like rotisserie chicken. Those whose chicken isn't turning our just may be miscooking it. The pasta sauce turned out great too. The only thing we would change is less lemon, I used 5 TBSP and we agreed it was a little much.
I'm a huge fan! Am I right in thinking that the amount of servings for your recipe would be 2 & would therefore need to be doubled to serve a family of 4? Love your site! :o)
This was so easy to make. I found the lemon flavour a little weird but I got used to it and I found adding extra parmesan on top mellowed it a bit. Thanks for the recipe and adding another recipe to my repertoire.
Loved it! Used fresh basil and garlic, held off on so much lemon juice in the sauce (used half a lemon) and baked the chicken since hubs was out of town. Served it with roasted squash and steamed brocolli and it was the best meal I've had in a while. Next time will grill it and it'll be even more delicious. And I think I'll use more capers 🙂 great recipe.
That looks so incredibly delicious!!!!
OMG.
'nuff said. 🙂
HI, I've made this twice now and I must be doing something wrong…each time I've made it the sauce curdles when the cream and lemon are combined. Help! What am I doing wrong?
Made this last weekend!! Perfection! Everything about this recipe was perfect!! The chicken is wonderful! That marinade smells wonderful & tasted even better! Don't skip this one, you won't regret it!
I tried this out tonight and it was pretty good with the following modifications: I used 1/2tbsp of fresh lemon juice in the marinade; I pan seared chicken instead of grilling; I used 1/3 cup of grated parm cheese. I only squeezed a tad bit of lemon juice into sauce (6tbsp seems excessive for our taste). I also added a little flour to sauce to make thicker consistency. I used 1/2 tsp of garlic powder in marinade and sauce. Would prefer more sauce though.
I made this tonight but just threw all the ingredients together and cooked my chicken in a skillet on low. Was nice and juicy and tender. The sauce I used very small amout of water for the sauce and just Squeezed some lemon juice into the sauce instead of what it called for. My daughter who hates everything loved this meal.
I tried this last week, and it was delicious! Tonight, I added some red pepper flakes to the sauce, and it added a nice kick! Thanks for posting!
For the record I grill my chicken breasts on my George Foreman grill. I only have a charcoal grill and using it for 2 chicken breasts is a waste.
But I figured out why my sauce didn't turn out. I used shredded parmesan instead of grated. Other than that it's delicious.
i enjoyed the dish, but could not get the sause did not come out smooth, what did i do wrong???? the kids loved the taste but not the texture !!!!