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Slow Cooker Lemon Chicken Piccata

Slow Cooker Lemon Chicken Piccata

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This amazing Slow Cooker Lemon Chicken Piccata recipe is lightly infused with lemon, garlic, butter and balanced with a mild saltiness from the capers.

I’ve found that making dinner is cheaper, easier, more flavorful (usually), and less work if I use my Crockpot/Slow Cooker to prepare it. By throwing a few ingredients in around lunchtime we have a warm, flavorful, and healthy meal at dinner time.

One of my favorite combinations is lemon, garlic, chicken, and capers. The chicken is lightly infused with lemon, garlic, butter, and balanced with a mild saltiness from the capers. It is divine! All of our “keepers” go on my blog so I can easily find them the next time I decide to make the recipe.

With Chicken Piccata you may typically brown the chicken before putting it in the crockpot, but I don’t usually have time for that. This turns out great without precooking the chicken, in fact, I just use frozen chicken and it turns out very moist and flavorful.

Instructions:

1. Turn slow cooker on to high heat.

2. Add liquid ingredients and butter in the bottom of a crockpot. Stir.

3. Place frozen (or defrosted) chicken breasts in slow cooker. Sprinkle seasonings evenly on top of chicken. Cook on high for 3 hours.

4. Separate chicken (if frozen) into individual breasts, make sure they are mostly submerged in the broth. Add capers. Place thinly sliced lemons on top of chicken. Cook on medium for 1 hour until chicken is cooked through and capers are soft.

Slow Cooker Lemon Chicken Piccata
5. Remove chicken from broth and turn crockpot/slow cooker to high heat.

6. Stir corn starch into cold water and add to broth. Stir for a few minutes to thicken the broth.

7. Serve chicken on spaghetti, linguini, rice noodles, or mashed potatoes. Pour broth over the top. Enjoy!

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Slow Cooker Lemon Chicken Piccata

Slow Cooker Lemon Chicken Piccata

Yield: 6
Prep Time: 20 minutes
Cook Time: 4 hours
Total Time: 4 hours 20 minutes

Amazing slow cooker chicken lightly infused with lemon, garlic, butter and balanced with a mild saltiness from the capers.

Ingredients

  • 2 pounds frozen boneless skinless chicken breasts (if using defrosted add 1/2 Cup water to broth)
  • 2 lemons (one and one half juiced, one half sliced) or 1/2 Cup lemon juice and one half lemon sliced
  • 3 Tablespoons capers
  • 2 Tablespoons butter
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
  • 1/2 teaspoon pepper
  • 1/2 teaspoon garlic powder (or 3 cloves, minced)
  • 2 Cups chicken broth
  • 1 Cup water
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons dried oregano
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons dried parsley
  • 2 Tablespoons corn starch and 1/4 Cup cold water (for broth thickening)
  • Spaghetti, linguini, rice noodles, or mashed potatoes (optional)

Instructions

  1. Turn slow cooker on to high heat.
  2. Add liquid ingredients and butter in the bottom of a crockpot. Stir.
  3. Place frozen (or defrosted) chicken breasts in slow cooker. Sprinkle seasonings evenly on top of chicken. Cook on high for 3 hours.
  4. Separate chicken (if frozen) into individual breasts, make sure they are mostly submerged in the broth. Add capers. Place thinly sliced lemons on top of chicken.Cook on medium for 1 hour until chicken is cooked through and capers are soft.
  5. Remove chicken from broth/crockpot.
  6. Turn crockpot to high heat.
  7. Stir corn starch into cold water and add to broth. Stir to thicken broth allow to cook for 10-30 minutes.
  8. Serve chicken on: spaghetti, linguini, rice noodles, or mash potatoes. Pour broth over the top. Garnish with a lemon slice. Enjoy.

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Annie

Sunday 22nd of August 2021

Tried this tonight, and based on the reviews, I doubled the cornstarch slurry to make a delicious thicker sauce (still not super thick though) I used the leftover broth in the crockpot after I scooped out what I could easily, threw in a head of cut up broccoli for an hour on high to have with the chicken. While the taste is lemony, the chicken moist, it is definitely not an easy recipe ad you have to constantly be checking and changing the ingredients. You can’t “throw it in and go to work for the day”. Will I try it again? Possible. Would I recommend, unfortunately no

Anita

Friday 12th of November 2021

Thanks for the review! I understand that tweaking a crock pot recipe isn't for everyone. But I appreciate you trying it and giving it a review!

Lesley

Wednesday 12th of October 2016

Tried this last night. I would make a few revisions. It says to add water if chicken is not frozen, I would not do that again. I ended up using some Chicken granulated bouillon as the flavor was watered down. There was so much fluid in the crock that the 2 Tbsp of cornstarch in yet more water was not nearly enough to thicken the broth. LESS fluid for more flavor and a thicker sauce would have been much better. I would probably leave the butter out too.

DIY Thrill

Thursday 23rd of June 2016

I love lemon! This looks like it's delicious! :)

Alexis chemistry cachet

Thursday 23rd of June 2016

This looks so good! I love all those flavors together!! Yum!

Deborah F.

Friday 13th of May 2016

Very tasty! I used corn starch, though, and it never thickened. But the broth was so tasty & could easily be used as soup. Thanks!

Anita Fowler

Saturday 14th of May 2016

Thank you for leaving a review! I'm so glad you liked it!

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