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Chicken fricassee

Cook Time 55 minutes
Course Dinner
Servings 4 people

Ingredients
  

  • 4 chicken breasts
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 25 g unsalted butter
  • 1 onion, sliced
  • 100 g mushrooms, sliced
  • 1 garlic clove, crushed
  • 120 ml sherry
  • 550 ml chicken stock
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 100 ml creme fraiche
  • 100 ml double cream
  • large pinch of course ground pepper

Instructions
 

  • Preheat the oven to 180c. Wrap the chicken breasts in foil and place in the oven for 35-45mins, depending on the thickness of the chicken.
  • In the meantime, melt the butter in a large lidded frying pan, add the olive oil, mushrooms and onions and over a medium heat fry until the mushrooms and onions until soft.
  • Add the garlic and stir for another few mins.
  • Add the sherry and cook until the liquid is reduced by half.
  • Add the stock and bay leaf and gently simmer for around 15mins.
  • When the chicken is cooked, remove from the oven and set aside.
  • Add the juices from the chicken (optional), cream and crème fraiche, stir together and then add the chicken breasts, pepper and simmer for around 10mins.
  • Serve immediately with some plain boiled rice or potatoes (hasselbacks would go great with this dinner!)