Looking for a creamy chicken recipe pls?

Angelina-M

Hi all

Im wanting to make a nice dinner, im thinking on the lines of something chicken in a creamy white sauce, to serve with perhaps rice and a simple salad?

I have: leftover roast chicken, peppers, onions, double cream, yoghurt and bacon (plus of course store cupboard stuff)

I've been checking out the t'internet but it keeps coming up with curries and we have overdosed on those recently so I just want something creamy.

Any clues guys?

Thanks :T

Tam_Lin

I did quorn fillets last night in cream of mushroom soup, dry mustard powder and cheese granules. Do you have those things in your cupboard?

Pink.

Hi Angelina,

Do you have any tarragon?

Chicken pieces (thighs or breasts)
Onion chopped
Garlic
Tarragon (dried or fresh)
Black pepper
A good glug of white wine (optional)
Chicken stock or stock cube made up in water
Double or whipping cream (a small carton)
Cornflour



Dry fry the chicken pieces to colour them. Put them into a casserole dish. Fry chopped onion and garlic together and add to the casserole. Add some black pepper, about half a teaspoon of tarragon (if using dried, you'll need more if it's fresh) and some stock.

Pop into the oven (about 180 degrees) and leave to cook for about an hour.

Pour in some cream and stir in some cornflour mixed with cold water to thicken. Add some white wine if using. Return to the oven and just before serving stir in the rest of the cream.

If you want a one pot meal just add potatoes and carrots to the casserole when you first put the chicken in.

Pink

Angelina-M

Thank you these sound lovely!

Alas I have no mushroom soup or tarragon However I have everything else so I could just improvise!

I've been looking through my Delia books and if I throw a few recipes together im sure it will come up trumps!

I usually just make something like a chicken lasagne with these ingredients but fancy something creamy and new

Tam_Lin

Sherry and cream go nice together.

Newgirl_2

Hi. By strange co-incidence, I too am trying to think of what to do with half a left-over chicken, and had narrowed it down to what my friend calls 'quick chicked fricasse' (not a true reflection of the real recipe but achieves same result).

I make that with mushroom soup as suggested above but, as I don't have any, will improvise with onion, peppers, mushrooms (my holy trinity) then garlic, cream and seasoning. Sometimes I put herbs in, sometimes I dont.

Lovely served with new pots and veg or pasta or rice

Newgirl

Fruball

I would fry a slice or two of bacon then add your onions and peppers till soft. Add chicken and warm through. Then add 1 sml pot cream and good splash of lemon juice (about a tblsp + plenty of black pepper if you like it - heat through and serve with rice and veggies

OR, if you have it... Fry onions and peppers, add a glass of dry white wine, reduce by half, stir in chicken and cream - done

You could do the same with sherry or brandy but use a smaller amount than with the white wine

I do cream sauces like this all the time The above would be really good with pasta too

lynzpower

for those without cream ( or cant have cream) this is what I do

Fry off the veg ( courgettes, onions, peppers mushrooms etc) in a bit of marge or oil

then in a seperate pan make a roux sauce with flour, milk and buter/marg

Melt a big blob of marg
put in 2 tablespoons of plan flour and mix till it goes liike a big lumpy messy ball
gradually add milk & whisk until the lumps are out

you can add creme fraiche, cream if you fancy, I sometimes add mustard, garlic, dried herbs.

then mix in the cooked chicken ( & bacon if you are having that) and fried off veg

Ive served with rice/ or pasta/ as a filling in a pie/ as a filling in lasagen. Very flexible and cheap too!

Angelina-M

Many thanks guys, my mouth is watering as I read! I shall print these off and work my way through them. I much prefer to ask on the forum than follow a recipe... its like asking my mates!

I'm sure we have some white wine knocking around and we dont drink it so good way to use it up. I love putting brandy in dishes but i've ran out of that too.

Fruball

The simplest (and I think the best) cheese sauce for pasta is a pot of creme fraiche with a handful of fresh grated parmasan and black pepper to taste. Ridiculously easy - I can't understand why anyone would buy a jar of it.

(if you only have single/double cream then use that with a tbsp or 2 of lemon juice mixed in when cooking)

I do it with mushrooms, courgettes and bacon - the scrummiest pasta in the world !

Psykicpup

If you have wholegrain mustard & honey you could do honey mustard chicken
I dont have a exact recipe but I would cook the chicken in a pan then add the cream thicken slightly then add the mustard & honey a little at a time until I had the desired taste - thats how I did it & yes it was that vague but tasted fab!