Chicken Piccata with Zoodles

I love chicken piccata!  It is such an easy recipe to make!  I used to serve it with mashed potatoes or noodles but once I learned of "zoodles" thats all I make with this dish!  I usually double the sauce and  make garlic bread to dip in.... oh yummy!  

(sorry the picture is sorta blurry... love this dish!!)

Ingredients:
4 chicken breast or 8 tenders
flour
cayenne pepper
2 tbs of oil
1-2 tbs of capers- whatever your preference
1/2 cup of white wine
1/4 cup of lemon juice
1/4 cup of water
3 tbs of butter

Put flour and cayenne pepper together and dredge chicken tenders then heat in oil over medium high heat.  Brown then set aside.  Cook capers in pan for 30 seconds then add the wine and scrape bottom of the pan! Let cook for 2 minutes then add the lemon juice, water and butter.  Let thicken then add the chicken and serve! 

Zoodles-- Zucchini noodles! I sautéed mine! They are great in this sauce! 

Chive and Onion Pork Tenderloin

Back in January I purchased a container of chive and onion cream cheese but never did anything with it.  This morning when I was going through the refrigerator, I spotted it and realized it expired today! So before heading for the grocery store I looked up a recipe then adapted it to what I thought might be good.  Luckily for me, the grocery store had buy 1 get 1 free on pork tenderloins!  

Hope you enjoy it!!

Ingredients: 

• Pork Tenderloin- Mine was peppercorn marinated
• 1 package of Shake and Bake mixture- I used the one for pork
• 3 cups of noodles-uncooked
• 1/2 onion diced 
• 2 cubes of garlic (cloves)
• 2 tsp of olive oil
• 1 cup of fresh mushrooms
• 1 tub of chive and onion cream cheese- I used Philadelphia
• 3/4 cup of reduced sodium chicken broth

Optional ingredients: Sliced hot pepper and adding flour to the sauce to thicken

Directions:

• Preheat the oven to 400'
• Put pork in a ziplock bag and add shake and bake and "Shake Shake" 
• Put on a foil lined baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes

The last 15 minutes of baking time 

• Cook noodles according to package, drain and drizzle with olive oil so they don't stick together
• Meanwhile, in a medium sized skillet heat oil on m-high heat
• Add onions, peppers and mushrooms and cook for about 5 min 
• Add cream cheese and chicken broth and stir to combine
• Cook for 5 minutes and add a little bit of flour to thicken the sauce
• Serve- first with noodles then pork and sauce overtop both.  

I served this dish with steamed asparagus, strawberries and blueberries and milk!  It was delicious- will definitely be making it again.