Lille style chicken

A recipe from cooking-ez.com

For 4 people, you will need:

• 1 4 chicken breasts
• 2 ½ lemon
• 3 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 4 1 tablespoon butter
• 5 200 ml cream
• 6 250 g button or field mushrooms
• 7 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 8 fine (or table) salt
• 9 pepper
• Total weight: 1,610 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
35 min.	20 min.	50 min.

Step by step recipe

1	Prepare 250 g button or field mushrooms, cut them into strips.
2	Put in a bowl and sprinkle with juice of ½ lemon.
3	Put a frying-pan over high heat, pour in 2 tablespoons olive oil.
4	As soon as oil is smoking lightly, add mushrooms without salt, and cook for 2 minutes while stirring, or if you know how to, "faites sauter".
5	After 2 minutes, remove from heat, salt, pepper, and pour into a strainer. Leave to drain.
6	Meanwhile, cut 4 chicken breasts into pieces.
7	Put a frying-pan (notnon-stick) on medium heat, and pour in 3 tablespoons olive oil and 1 tablespoon butter.
8	As soon as it sizzles, add chicken pieces.
9	Cook on all sides, stirring occasionally. Heat serving plates.
10	When chicken pieces are golden brown, add 200 ml cream.
11	Then déglaze: this means scrape the bottom of the pan with a wooden spatula to incorporate all the delicious cooking juices with the cream . Then allow to thicken over low heat.
12	When sauce is thick enough (to your taste), add mushrooms, mix well. Cook a further one or two minutes and check seasoning.
13	Pour onto hot serving plates, and serve immediately.

Remarks

For complete success, chicken should be cooked in an old style (not non-stick) pan. Othewise after cooking the chicken, you will not get the tasty juices left on the bottom. The ideal pan is a stainless steel one.

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