Chicken breast with asparagus, peas mushrooms cream sauce
Serves 4
4 free range ‘Ark’ chicken breasts, each 200g
12 asparagus tips
Unsalted butter
100gr Frozen peas
Sprig of thyme
20gr Unsalted butter
Vegetable oil
Salt and pepper
White wine sauce
25g onion chopped
200g sliced button mushrooms
1 garlic cloves, peeled and grated with a micro plain
100ml dry white wine
100g unsalted butter
2 sprigs of thyme
1 bay leaf
1 tpsn Dijon mustard
250ml Chicken stock
50ml double cream
Method
Sauce; Sweat the chopped onions and garlic and garlic in 20g of the butter, without colouring. Add the thyme and bay leaf and sweat for a further 2 minutes, now add the sliced mushrooms and sweet until slippery.
Add the white wine and reduce to nothing before adding the chicken stock, Dijon mustard and cream.
Bring to the boil and simmer and reduce to required consistency. Season with salt and pepper and remove bay leaf, add the peas and leave to stand.
e brandy and reduce down to nothing. Add the chicken stock and reduce by half, then add the cream. Whisk in the remaining butter in small pieces. Season the sauce with salt and pepper and set aside.
Chicken breast; Whilst the sauce is reducing, season the chicken breasts, take a large frying pan and heat, add oil and the place the chicken breast skin side down and seal until golden brown, now add a knob of butter and a sprig of thyme and place in the pre heated oven 200°c for 6 minutes, remove and turn and continue cooking for a further 8 minutes until cooked through (time might differ depending on size). Remove from the oven and leave to stand.
Asparagus; Cut the asparagus tips to the same length, place into a frying/thick bottomed pan with some olive oil and season with salt and pepper, fry gently with a lid on top for approximately 2 minutes, then add a tpsn of water and continue to cook for 1 minute.
To serve; place 3 asparagus tips into the middle of the plate, then the chicken breasts on top. Now spoon over and around the mushroom white wine sauce.
Enjoy!
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