Chicken Breasts with Sherried Mushrooms
Preparation and cooking time: 30 minutes
Mushrooms soak up the flavors they're cooked with, and when simmered with a bit of sherry, they turn simple chicken breasts into an elegant, gourmet dish suitable for guests... or just a delicious mid-week treat. For a dinner party I would use the cream... Midweek I use the milk or stock.
Ingredients:
- 2 chicken breasts, boneless, skinless, 350gr, 12.4oz
- 4oz mushrooms, 125gr, 4.4oz
- 1/4 cup sherry, 60gr, 2.1oz
- 3/8 cup milk or crème fraiche, 45gr, 1.6oz milk
- 1/2 cup shredded cheese, Gruyère, 60gr, 2.1oz
- 1 tbs olive oil, 13.5gr, .48oz
- 1 tbs white Balsamic vinegar or white wine tarragon, 15gr, .5oz
Instructions:
- Clean and thickly slice mushrooms.
- Heat oil in medium nonstick skillet. Add chicken breasts and brown on both sides, about 10 minutes total. Remove and keep warm.
- Add mushrooms and vinegar to pan and sauté 5 minutes.
- Add sherry to mushrooms and scrape up any browned bits.
- Return chicken to pan, turn heat to low and simmer 5 - 10 minutes, until chicken is cooked through.
- Remove chicken and put on small platter; cover with the pan lid.
- Increase the heat to medium high and add the milk/cream to the pan. Boil rapidly, stirring, for about 3 minutes, until sauce has reduced.
- Pour sauce over chicken and sprinkle with cheese. Cover again, briefly, until cheese softens. Serve.
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| Nutrition Information Recipe serves 2 Entire Recipe / per serving Calories: 912 / 456 Total Carbohydrates: 14 / 7 Dietary Fiber: 1 / .5 Total Fat: 44 / 22 Saturated Fat: 16 / 8 Cholesterol: 294 / 147 Protein: 98 / 46 Calcium: 687 / 343.5 Sodium: 639 / 319.5 |
General Technical Details and Disclaimer:
Measurements in this color are actual measurements used for calculation. If there are no values the nutritional numbers were simply too small.
I try to be accurate, but I do not guarantee it. I use 'grams' as the unit of weight; with an approximate conversion to ounces.
My information comes from my own digital, computerized scale and the USDA Nutrient Data Library: http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/search/
