Chicken fillets with a rich mushroom sauce
Chicken fillets with a rich mushroom sauce | |
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Best recipe reviewWorks for me with normal Cheddar 4.5/5 Nice recipe, but you don't need special cheese, normal Cheddar is fine - I've just tried it! The Judge |
Servings: | Serves 2 |
Calories per serving: | 843 |
Ready in: | 40 minutes |
Prep. time: | 15 minutes |
Cook time: | 25 minutes |
Difficulty: | |
Recipe author: | JuliaBalbilla |
First published: | 6th November 2015 |
Cheesey chicken pieces in a rich mushroom sauce. This recipe comes to Cookipedia courtesy of Džiugas cheeses.
Ingredients
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- for the cheesey chicken pieces
- 2 Chicken fillets
- 1 free range egg
- 40 g of Džiugas cheese
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 tablespoon plain flour
- 2 tablespoons of vegetable oil (for frying)
- 50 g of butter
- for the creamy mushroom sauce
- 30 g finely chopped onion
- 1 clove of garlic, peeled and crushed
- 60 g of mushrooms, finely chopped
- 100 g Crème fraîche
- 50 ml water
Method
- Ensure the chicken pieces are about the same size
- Cover them with cling film and bash them with a rolling pin to flatten so they cook quickly
- Beat the egg and mix in a tablespoon of the double cream, the Džiugas cheese and season with salt and black pepper
- Add the oil and butter to a large frying pan and heat to a medium heat
- Pop the chicken pieces into a Lock & Lock box together with a tablespoon of plain flour, close the lid and shake to coat evenly
- Dip the floured chicken pieces in the egg and cream mix Flour the pieces, then dip them into egg and cheese mixture
- Fry the chicken pieces for about 10 minutes, turning once.
- Check the chicken is properly cooked with a meat thermometer; 74 °C (165 °F)
- Drain on kitchen paper
- mushroom sauce
- Fry onions and mushrooms, add garlic, crème fraîche and water.
- Bring to a gentle simmer and cook for a couple of minutes
- Season to taste & serve
Variations
If you cannot obtain Džiugas cheese, a good quality Parmesan will work equally well.
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