skillet lemon chicken

Looking for an easy chicken recipe? This lemony chicken piccata from Delish.com is the bomb.

Easy Skillet Chicken Piccata

olive oil

bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs

Kosher salt

black pepper

butter

garlic,

dry white wine

lemon

capers

lemon, sliced

parsley,

Just a perfect recipe, fast, easy, simple ingredients and wonderful result!
Juicy, fresh, and delicious.

Used frozen chicken tenders from Trader Joe’s. Riesling for the wine. Served over angel hair pasta. Delicious!

Fantastic recipe, never fails!! I add a finely chopped shallot to the garlic sauté stage - so good and so easy!

This was so good and so easy! Served with rice and asparagus my Eh and I really enjoyed it. For the last few moments of the asparagus cooking, I put them in the pan with the sauce. Yummy

Very easy and delicious and happy to find a recipe that I can use chicken thighs with. I served it over rice.

Delicious! I didnt have wine so I used chicken broth and it still turned out great.  Dumped the chicken and sauce over angel hair and it was really good!

One oven-safe skillet is the only pan you need to cook this tender chicken and flavorful creamy lemon herb sauce. Fresh thyme is great, but you can use dried if that's all you have. See recipe note.

Creamy Lemon Thyme Chicken

chicken breasts (around 1.5 lbs total)

salt

(60 milliliters) lemon juice (about 2 medium lemons)

onion

thyme leaves (or 1.5 teaspoons dried)

(80 milliliters) heavy cream,

Tablespoons (43 grams) unsalted butter,

lemon thyme

If the chicken breasts are unevenly thick, pound them down so they&#8217;re roughly all the same thickness.

Sprinkle both sides of each chicken breasts lightly with the salt and pepper. In a large ovenproof skillet, heat the oil over medium high heat. Add the chicken and cook for 7-8 minutes, turning once halfway. You want the chicken nice and browned on the outside, but not fully cooked in the centers because they will finish in the oven. Set chicken on a plate and cover tightly with foil until step 5.

Remove skillet from the stove and add the broth, lemon juice, lemon zest, onion, garlic, and thyme. Return skillet to the stove over medium high heat. Cook and stir to scrape up the browned bits from the bottom of the skillet. Bring to a boil. Allow to boil, uncovered, for 10 minutes or until the liquid is reduced to around 1/2 cup (120ml). Stir in the cream and butter. Bring to simmer, stirring occasionally, and allow to simmer for 3-4 minutes.

Add chicken to the sauce and place the skillet in the preheated oven. Bake until the chicken is fully cooked through, about 10 minutes. (Chicken is considered done when an instant read thermometer reads the center of the thickest part as at least 165°F (74°C).)

Serve chicken with sauce spooned on top and any of the listed optional garnishes. Leftovers keep well in the refrigerator for a few days. Reheat to your liking.

This is delicious! Just the right amount of creaminess, thyme and lemon. It is a new favorite.

It's absolutely delicious. The taste is creamy and light. I love it. Thank you for sharing this wonderful recipe. I'll add it on my dinner recipe. Thank you!

I made this recipe for my family and everyone loved it! I made it with light cream, since we didn't have heavy cream, and it was still great. So nice to have a new chicken recipe!

Fabulous! Instantly a  new fave for us. I made this today and served over homemade pasta. Wow, wow, wow! Thank you for this tasty and easy recipe.

This was so delicious, just as I was hoping it would be! This is definitely a winner in our house, and I'll be making it again for sure! 
One error I noticed, where it says the amount of heavy cream, it says cups then tablespoons. I was confused with both being there but went with the cups.

Really liked this recipe. We were having friends to dinner in Paris. I decided to use this recipe and found out that broth doesn’t exist in Paris only bouillon cubes. I subbed wine mixed with a bit of water. I used crème fraîche for the sauce and tarragon instead of thyme because I had it. I had bone in chicken thighs. We all loved it. Can’t wait to try the lime version. 
Merci Sandra

Made it last night.  Family loved it!  It's a keeper!

Very tasty dish. My sauce came out a bit thin. I reduced it as directed. But it was delicious nonetheless. I served it with Yukon gold mashed potatoes and sautéed green beans.

A friend recommended I visit this site to look at the lemon bar recipe.  I searched simply for “lemon” and this was the first recipe match shown.  I completely forgot about the lemon bars and went into, “this looks awesome for tonight’s dinner” mode.  No regrets and no leftovers on this recipe.  Like most, we tweaked the recipe, in our case substituting thighs for breasts as well as adding 50% more fresh thyme (plus a 1/2 teaspoon of dried thyme - we love thyme).  We also used an entire medium-sized onion, which understandably added time to the reducing phase.  But, it’s all about preferences.

In our case, we had a bit of leftover sauce.  We’re saving that to drizzle over asparagus we’re having tomorrow night.

Thanks for sharing this recipe.  Now back to those bars…

This was great. Can it be done with salmon?

This was one of the easiest and MOST DELICIOUS recipes I have made in a long, long time.  I will be putting this one into my bi-weekly rotation for the fall!  I love how bright it is from the lemon.  It's perfect over rice to soak up all the flavors of the sauce.

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One oven-safe skillet is the only pan you need to cook this tender chicken and flavorful creamy lemon herb sauce. 

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