Lille style chicken


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: May 10th 2023

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Times for this recipe
Preparation: 33 min.
Cooking: 17 min.
All in all: 50 min.
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Stage 1 - 5 min.
Lille style chicken
Prepare 250 g button or field mushrooms, cut them into strips.

Stage 2 - 2 min.
Lille style chicken
Put in a bowl and sprinkle with juice of ½ lemon.

Stage 3 - 1 min.
Lille style chicken
Put a frying-pan over high heat, pour in 2 tablespoons olive oil.

Stage 4 - 2 min.
Lille style chicken
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 5 - 5 min.
Lille style chicken
After 2 minutes, remove from heat, salt, pepper, and pour into a strainer.

Leave to drain.

Stage 6 - 3 min.
Lille style chicken
Meanwhile, cut 4 chicken breasts into pieces.

Stage 7 - 2 min.
Lille style chicken
Put a frying-pan (notnon-stick) on medium heat, and pour in 3 tablespoons olive oil and 1 tablespoon butter.

Stage 8 - 1 min.
Lille style chicken
As soon as it sizzles, add chicken pieces.

Stage 9 - 15 min.
Lille style chicken
Cook on all sides, stirring occasionally.

Heat serving plates.

Stage 10 - 1 min.
Lille style chicken
When chicken pieces are golden brown, add 200 ml cream.

Stage 11 - 10 min.
Lille style chicken
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 12 - 3 min.
Lille style chicken
When sauce is thick enough (to your taste), add mushrooms, mix well. Cook a further one or two minutes and check seasoning.

Stage 13
Lille style chicken
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?
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!
Keeping: Several days in the fridge, in a closed jar.
Source: Home made.
Nutritional information
Proteins (gr)Carbohydrates (gr)Fats (gr)Energy value (in k-calories)Energy value (in k-joules)
Whole recipe210 80 %20 2 %220 30 %2,910 150 %12,200 150 %
Per 100 g10 5 %1 0 %10 2 %180 9 %760 9 %
Per person50 20 %5 1 %50 8 %730 40 %3,050 40 %
The % figures are calculated in relation to the Recommended Dietary Intake , or RDI of 2,000 k-calories (or 8,400 k-joules) per day for a woman Change to a man
Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk
How much will it cost?
  • For 4 people : 16.23 €
  • Per person : 4.06 €

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