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Instant Pot Chicken Piccata with Creamy Lemon Sauce Is a Perfectly Delicious Dish for a Weeknight Dinner or Special Occasion!

We love Instant Pot Chicken recipes! Some of our favorites include Instant Pot Honey Garlic Chicken Sliders and Instant Pot Shredded Mexican Chicken.

Instant Pot Chicken Piccata with Creamy Lemon Sauce

Chicken Piccata is the perfect combination of family friendly and restaurant quality. Imagine a beautiful dish that you would be proud to serve for a special occasion, but one that your pickiest eater will gladly polish off!

This dish has it all: chicken that is golden and crisp on the outside but tender and juicy on the inside and a creamy lemon sauce that is sure to please. Pair it with your family’s favorite side, and you have a winner!

As an added bonus, this recipe is both inexpensive and easy – win-win!

WHAT IS CHICKEN PICCATA?

Chicken Piccata is an Italian dish that traditionally includes butterflied or thinly-sliced chicken, pounded and dredged in seasoned flour. The sauce is made with broth or white wine, lemon, and capers. It’s a wonderful combination of tangy, savory, and just plain delicious!

The traditional piccata sauce does not include cream, but a little bit of creaminess adds so much to this dish. Once you try it, I know you’ll agree!

CAN I LEAVE THE HEAVY CREAM OUT OF THIS INSTANT POT CHICKEN PICCATTA WITH CREAMY LEMON SAUCE RECIPE?

Heavy cream might seem like a fat-filled ingredient, but I highly recommend keeping it! The cream really sets off the sauce and makes it so creamy and delicious! Trust me, they are definitely worth keeping!

WILL THIS INSTANT POT CHICKEN PICCATA WITH CREAMY LEMON SAUCE RECIPE FREEZE WELL?

You can definitely freeze this recipe! I recommend freezing the dredged chicken and the sauce in separate bags so that the chicken is golden and crispy when you thaw and cook it. A trick that saves me time is to pack the two bags together in a larger freezer bag. This way, you can just grab and go!

I know you’ll love this recipe – it’s one of our favorites!

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Instant Pot Chicken Piccata with Creamy Lemon Sauce

Instant Pot Chicken Piccata with Creamy Lemon Sauce is a perfectly delicious dish for a weeknight dinner or special occasion!  
Course Chicken, Instant Pot
Cuisine Italian
Keyword Instant Pot Chicken Piccata with Creamy Lemon Sauce
Prep Time 5 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 6
Calories 499
Author Sarah

Ingredients

Ingredients:

  • 6 boneless skinless chicken breasts
  • 4 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 1 ⁄4 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp pepper
  • 12 oz linguine
  • 24 oz chicken broth
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 8 Tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 Tbsp corn starch
  • Salt & pepper to taste
  • Parmesan Cheese topping

Instructions

Instant Pot Instructions:

  • Mix together garlic powder, salt and pepper.
  • Sprinkle on both sides of chicken breasts.
  • Place in Instant Pot and pour chicken broth in.
  • Close lid, close valve and cook for 15 minutes, high pressure. (If the chicken is still frozen, cook for 20 minutes)
  • Quick Release the pressure, use kitchen shears or forks and quickly chop or shred the chicken.
  • Break the linguine noodles in half and add to the Instant Pot.
  • Close lid & valve, and set the pressure cooker to cook for an additional 5 minutes, on high pressure.
  • While that is cooking, measure out your lemon juice and heavy cream.
  • Add 1 Tbsp of cornstarch to the lemon juice and mix well.
  • Once the timer beeps on the Instant Pot, quick release the pressure.
  • Add lemon juice mixture and heavy cream. Stir well.
  • Turn pressure cooker to Saute and let it cook another minute or two to thicken the sauce.
  • Dish onto plates or into bowls and top with Parmesan cheese.

Slow Cooker Instructions:

  • Stir together garlic powder, salt & pepper.
  • Coat chicken with spice mixture
  • Place chicken into slow cooker & cook on low 4 hours, after cooked, remove chicken & keep it warm
  • Add linguine to slow cooker with chicken broth, cook on high 15 more minutes.
  • Mix together lemon juice and cornstarch.
  • Stir in lemon juice mixture, heavy cream, salt & pepper to taste and cook 10 more minutes on high
  • Add chicken back in and cook until warm

Nutrition

Calories: 499kcal | Carbohydrates: 48g | Protein: 33g | Fat: 19g | Saturated Fat: 10g | Cholesterol: 127mg | Sodium: 695mg | Potassium: 710mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 2g | Vitamin A: 617IU | Vitamin C: 17mg | Calcium: 50mg | Iron: 2mg

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Happenings From Our Family of 9

My husband Ryan and I recently went on our first cruise.  We had such a great time and it was so nice to get to explore new places together.  The picture is us at a beach in St. Augustine. We had the better part of a day to spend after the cruise so we visited an old Spanish fort there and took in a little beach time!  Please excuse my hair, but it was defiantly a messy hair, don’t care moment!

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    Thank you so much! As a special needs mommy these recipes have helped us so much.   I often am very busy with being a nurse for our child that I don't have time for making sure we get meals.  This allows me to do all my prep on the weekends, while my husband is home to help, and to cook during the week.  So grateful!

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    Sarah’s Freezer to Slow Cooker ebooks have been a fantastic addition to my meal plans.  They make meal planning easy and my family happy. I love the way each recipe is laid out, with a shopping list and ingredient prep list, along with cooking instructions. Sarah’s done all the hard work for me!  The recipes have used have all been delicious and easily adaptable to my family’s taste and the number of people I’m serving.

  • FranOwner of Freezer to Slow Cooker Ebooks
     I purchased all of your freezer to slow cooker ebooks a month or so ago and I'm in love with this way of cooking.  I now have taken all 10 weeks of recipes and written them of my menu planner and then I repeated the 10 weeks and will continue to do so throughout the year.  My family of 5 adults and 1 child enjoy the meals that you have planned and I have cooked and I'm excited that the next time when that meal comes due up in the rotation I won't have to purchase anything but just pull it from the freezer.  Thank you so much
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  • rayzn2angelsfrom Freezer to Slow Cooker Series

    This makes my life so much easier. I'm a busy work at home/stay at home mom, wife, business woman and I feel like dinner is always the thing I just never get time to do. We have done like 15 of the crockpot recipes from Sarah and they are all very yummy. They get a thumbs up from my husband and kids every time. And there is always enough for my husband to take the left overs at least 2x per recipe. I have a family of 5, 2 adults, 21, 13, 16. So it makes plenty. Thank you Sarah.

  • Dawn S.Buyer of Freezer to Slow Cooker Ebook Series
    I am a 59-year-old wife and mother of two grown children.  I love your idea of fixing a lot of meals ahead of time and then pulling one out, put it in the crockpot, and you have dinner when you get home.  I hate feeling rushed when I cook so Monday - Friday I use those crockpot meals and make enough that we have lunch the next day.  I take Sunday afternoon, fix up what I need for the week (I don't have a lot of freezer space so I do a week's worth at a time) and I'm done with it!  Saturdays I like to try new recipes from some of my cookbooks which I am finding I can freeze as well!  So you have shown me a whole new way to organize my time and still put a healthy meal on the table.  Thanks so much and I look forward to future blogs.

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