Chicken with Mushrooms

[xclairedelune.livejournal.com]

I could have included this with mushroom recipes, but it's a main course. The good part of it (besides its wonderful flavor) is that you need no veggie side dish. Can serve with couscous or a pilaf or pan fried potatoes.

Serves 4

1 lb fresh mushrooms
2 cloves garlic
small onion chopped
olive oil or butter
2 whole breasts (4 halves) chicken, skinned
flour for dusting chicken plus about 2 Tbsp. for the gravy
up to l cup chicken broth (may use canned)
Sherry or Marsala (both work well)
salt and pepper to taste

Slice mushrooms, saute in oil or butter until soft. Take out of pan, put in bowl along with the liquid.

Salt and pepper chicken, roll in flour. Heat oil in pan and add chicken to brown. Take chicken out of pan and put on plate.

Brown onions and garlic in oil remaining in pan. Add the flour and brown slightly. Add about half the chicken stock to make a gravy. Put the chicken and mushrooms back into the pan, cover, and cook for about an hour. Check. If you want more gravy, add additional stock. Note: the onions will thicken the gravy more than you'd think, so that's why I keep stock on hand.

Just before serving add about 1/2 cup of the wine. I've used both sherry and marsala and they're both good. Let the alcohol evaporate. Check for seasoning again and adjust if you want.

Enjoy! (save some extra wine for the cook...)

Comments

[baranduin.livejournal.com]

That sounds absolutely scrumptious! And just the kind of recipe I'll definitely take note of to make. I make a chicken marsala fairly often but this is a different way of doing it and I'm sure I'll love it.

[xclairedelune.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, yeah it's a good recipe..

Isn't this a great site??

I love to cook and write and play on LJ...

Too bad there are those that depend on me to cook and clean!!!

Bummer.....

[sila-lumenn.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for the lovely compliment about this community! I'm delighted with how quickly it caught on.

Maybe one day, when we've collected enough recipes, I'll put together a down-loadable "Hobbit Lovers LiveJournal Cookbook" with each recipe credited back to the original contributor.