Chicken Fricassee
This is one of those dinners that you have any time or the week or if you want to entertain. What’s even better, is it’s so simple to make.
What goes well with this chicken dish
This is such a simple dish that you can serve with either rice or hassleback potatoes.
Chicken fricassee
Ingredients
- 3 chicken breasts, cut into chunks
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 25 g unsalted butter
- 1 onion, sliced
- 100 g mushrooms, sliced
- 1 garlic clove, crushed (½ tsp garlic paste)
- 90 ml white wine
- 500 ml chicken stock
- 2 bay leaves
- 100 ml creme fraiche
- 100 ml double cream
- large pinch of course ground pepper
Instructions
- Heat the butter and oil in a frying pan, add the chicken and fry until cooked, remove the chicken and set aside.
- Add the mushrooms and onions and fry until the mushrooms and onions until soft.
- Add the garlic and stir for another few mins. Then add the wine and cook until the liquid is reduced by half.
- Add the stock and bay leaf and gently simmer for around 15mins.
- Add the cream and crème fraiche, stir together, season and simmer for around 10mins.
- Serve immediately with some plain boiled rice or potatoes (hasselbacks would go great with this dinner!)