Chicken Piccata

With a small salad and mashed potatoes, this turned into an amazing dinner. The lemony sauce on this chicken piccata was tangy and tasted great. It was also pretty easy to assemble once all ingredients were there. I highly recommend this if you want to impress family or friends. My dad saw this for $27 on the menu at some restaurant, and I def spent less than $10. btw, pounding the chicken flat was likely necessary in getting a really tender and keeping it moist. Leftovers still taste good, but the texture is of course not the same because the crunchy breaded outside tastes so good when it first comes out of the oven.

Ingredients:
4 skinless chicken breast halves
salt and pepper
1 cup all purpose flour
2 xl eggs
1 1/2 cups dried bread crumbs (i used the fine canned kind)
olive oil
3 T unsalted butter, room temp
1/3 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice (about 2 lemons), hold on to the lemon halves for later
1/2 cup dry white wine (all I had was a chardonnay, and that worked out)
chopped flat leaf parsley for sprinkling on top before serving (i didn't bother with this this time around)

Preheat oven. Line sheet pan with parchment paper (protect the pan fro getting all sorts of crap on it).

Pound each breast half between plastic wrap or parchment paper to about 1/4 inch thick. sprinkle each side with salt and pepper.

Mix flour, 1 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp pepper in shallow plate. Beat eggs in another bowl/shallow plate and add 1 T of water. Place bread crumbs in another plate(tupperware worked great). Dip each first in flour, shake off excess, then in egg, then in bread crumbs.

Heat 2 T olive oil in large saute pan over medium/medium-low heat. Add breasts two at a time and brown each side. Place on sheet pan and do the rest. Bake in oven 5-10 minutes.

Sauce: Melt 1 T of butter in saute pan and add lemon juice, white wine, reserved lemon halves that were juiced, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp pepper. Boil over high and reduce by half (2 minutes). Off the heat, add 2 T of butter. Discard lemon halves. Spoon over finished chicken! yummers.