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Chicken with Mushroom Sauce

A classic chicken dish with a rich mushroom sauce.

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French
medium
4h 40m
4
Prep: 1h 0m
Cook: 3h 40m
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Thomas Straker
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Ingredients
  • 1 Whole chickenbroken down into parts
  • 1 Carrotroughly chopped
  • 1 Onionroughly chopped
  • 1 Celeryroughly chopped
  • 3 Garlic clovescrushed
  • Thymefresh
  • Rosemaryfresh
  • Salt
  • Black pepper
  • 5 Mushroomscut into eighths
  • Butterfor browning
  • 1 Shallotfinely minced
  • Whiskeyfor deglazing
  • Chicken stockprepared earlier
  • Crème fraîche
  • MustardPommery mustard
  • Chivesminced
  • Lemon juicefor finishing
Instructions
  1. 1

    Break down the whole chicken into parts.

    10 min

  2. 2

    Prepare the stock by browning chicken bones and adding carrot, onion, celery, and garlic.

    30 min

  3. 3

    Add thyme, rosemary, salt, and pepper to the stock. Simmer for 3 hours.

    3h 0m

  4. 4

    Cook chicken breast skin-side down until crispy. Finish in the oven at 150°C.

    30 min

  5. 5

    Sauté mushrooms in the same pan, add garlic, shallot, and deglaze with whiskey.

    10 min

  6. 6

    Add chicken stock, reduce, then add crème fraîche and mustard. Finish with chives and lemon juice.

    10 min

  7. 7

    Carve the chicken and serve with the mushroom sauce.

    10 min

Equipment Needed
Knife
Cutting board
Stock pot
Oven
Pan
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