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Lille style chicken

Chicken breasts and mushrooms, cooked separately, then mixed with a tasty cream sauce before serving. It's a dish with a "cuisiné" taste, but which unfortunately is becoming increasingly rare in restaurants.

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Last modified on: December 21^th 2019

For 4 people, you will need:

1 4 chicken breasts
2 ½ lemon
3 2 tablespoons olive oil
4 1 tablespoon butter
5 1 cup cream
6 2 ²⁄₃ cups button or field mushrooms
7 3 tablespoons olive oil
8 fine (or table) salt
9 pepper

Change those ingredients for: 2 people 4 people 8 people 12 people

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Time required for this recipe:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
48 min.	17 min.	1 hour 5 min.

Keeping: Several days in the fridge, in a closed jar.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 15 min.

Prepare 2 ²⁄₃ cups button or field mushrooms: cut off and discard stalks, then peel caps.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Slice.

Stage 3 - 2 min.

Put in a bowl and sprinkle with juice of ½ lemon.

Stage 4 - 1 min.

Put a frying-pan over high heat, pour in 2 tablespoons olive oil.

Stage 5 - 2 min.

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".

Stage 6 - 5 min.

After 2 minutes, remove from heat, salt, pepper, and pour into a strainer.

Leave to drain.

Stage 7 - 3 min.

Meanwhile, cut 4 chicken breasts into pieces.

Stage 8 - 2 min.

Put a frying-pan (notnon-stick) on medium heat, and pour in 3 tablespoons olive oil and 1 tablespoon butter.

Stage 9 - 1 min.

As soon as it sizzles, add chicken pieces.

Stage 10 - 15 min.

Cook on all sides, stirring occasionally.

Heat serving plates.

Stage 11 - 1 min.

When chicken pieces are golden brown, add 1 cup cream.

Stage 12 - 10 min.

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.

Stage 13 - 3 min.

When sauce is thick enough (to your taste), add mushrooms, mix well. Cook a further one or two minutes and check seasoning.

Stage 14

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.

And to drink?

I suggest you follow Patrick's advice, and try a Beaujolais:

"Chénas is one of the Beaujolais wines, and Domaine des Tourniers is one of the best. Old vines 70 to 100 years old, on a hillside, give the wine deep colour, a floral and fruity nose, with notes of blackcurrant and blackberry flavours. In the mouth, the wine has an expressive fruity taste, and finesse without too much tannin. This wine is the ideal accompaniment to Lille style chicken and other white meat recipes. Sells at La Cave de Bacchus in Brest"

PS: I followed his advice while preparing this recipe for the site, and it goes very well with it!

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
2,914 Kcal or 12,200 Kj	214 gr	24 gr	218 gr
146 %	82 %	2 %	33 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
182 Kcal or 762 Kj	13 gr	1 gr	14 gr
9 %	5 %	<1 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
729 Kcal or 3,052 Kj	54 gr	6 gr	55 gr
36 %	21 %	1 %	8 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 16.23 €
Per person : 4.06 €

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Source

Home made.

More recipes?

This recipe uses (among others)

	Button or field mushrooms: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Blanquette of veal, Baker's tuna and mushroom tart, Beurre d'escargot, Icelandic-style fish and vegetable pie, African style chicken, ... All
	Cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Purée of Jerusalem artichokes with foie gras, Mushroom Pancakes au Gratin, Scallop and leek pancakes, "BN style" chocolate-filled biscuits, Curried prawn risotto, ... All
	Chicken breast: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Warm chicken salad, Pan-fried chicken breast on mozzarella, Stuffed pumpkin gratin, Taos hotpot, Couscous, ... All
	Olive oil: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Penne with purple artichokes, Shakshuka, Leek and tuna loaf, Stuffed artichokes au gratin, Potimarron and leek soup, ... All

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