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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: May 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
5 200 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

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Time required

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 250 g 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 200 ml 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.

Nutritional information

% 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 : 16.50 €
Per person : 4.13 €

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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 for 9 â‚¬ 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!

Source

Home made

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