Chicken fricassee with mushrooms

An exquisite, delicious and fragrant dish of French cuisine! Chicken fillet with mushrooms cooked in cream sauce is familiar to many housewives firsthand, but not everyone knows that this is a popular dish of French cuisine with a beautiful name "fricassee". This dish is really very tasty – soft juicy chicken meat perfectly complements the aroma and taste of mushrooms and a delicate creamy sauce. You can serve it not only for lunch or dinner on ordinary weekdays, but also a festive table as a hot one.

Snezhana

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Composition / ingredients

servings:

Chicken fillet

300

Champignons

200

Onion

Garlic

Cream (10%)

150

Water

Wheat flour

Olive oil

Salt

to taste

Ground black pepper

to taste

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 50 % 10 g

Fats 30 % 6 g

Carbohydrates 20 % 4 g

126 kcal

GI: 75 / 0 / 25

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 15 min

Step 1:
Prepare the ingredients for the chicken and mushroom fricassee. At home, this dish is made from chicken fillet and champignons. However, each chef of a French restaurant has his own special recipe for this dish. Therefore, you can safely cook it with your own changes. Chicken fillet is washed, dried with a paper towel and cut into cubes or straws.
Step 2:
Mushrooms can be taken for the dish in the same way as in the classic recipe, champignons, but if it is possible to add forest mushrooms, then this must be done. The dish will acquire an amazing aroma and taste. Mushrooms can be used any to taste, it turns out delicious with ginger. If the mushrooms are fresh, then we wash them thoroughly, cut the large caps into cubes or straws, boil in salted water for 20 minutes, drain the water, rinse the mushrooms again.
Step 3:
Peel the onion and cut into cubes. Pour olive oil into the pan, you can use vegetable oil. We heat it up, fry the onion until transparent.
Step 4:
We send boiled mushrooms to him, mix and fry them together over medium heat for another 10 minutes.
Step 5:
Then put the cooked chicken meat in the pan with the mushrooms. Stir and fry until the chicken meat turns white. Add spices: salt and ground black pepper, if desired, you can add some more seasoning. We keep the chicken with mushrooms on the fire for another 10 minutes.
Step 6:
Pour cream into a frying pan with chicken and mushrooms, mix. Reduce the heat to a minimum, cover the pan with a lid and simmer on the fire for about 10 minutes. In a glass of cold water, stir a tablespoon of flour until a homogeneous mixture is obtained. Pour it into the pan, mix. Turn off the fire, let the dish stand under the lid for 15 minutes. Those who like such dishes to taste more delicious can add a garlic clove passed through the press at this stage.
Step 7:
The dish is ready. We serve it to the table, with a side dish or as an independent dish, sprinkled with grated hard cheese and fresh chopped herbs on top, if desired. Bon appetit!