Piccata

Chicken piccata

Piccata (sometimes spelled picatta outside Italy) is an Italian dish of thin pan-fried flour-dredged meat in a sauce of lemon juice, butter, parsley, and often capers.[1][2] In Italian cuisine piccata is prepared using veal (piccata di vitello al limone, lit.'veal piccata with lemon'),[3] whereas in Italian-American cuisine, chicken is more commonly used. A similar dish, pesce spada con capperi e limone, is made with swordfish.[4]

  1. ^ "piccata". Treccani Encyclopedia (in Italian). Retrieved 2023-12-08.
  2. ^ "Ricetta Piccata di vitello al limone - RicetteMania". www.RicetteMania.it. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  3. ^ Del Conte, Anna (2013). Gastronomy of Italy: Revised Edition. ISBN 978-1862056589.
  4. ^ "Pesce spada con capperi e limone". Academia Barilla - l’arte della gastronomia italiana. Retrieved 16 January 2018.