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: 1,605 grams

Times:

Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
33 min.	17 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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