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Chicken with Chanterelle Mushroom Sauce - 1/12/2018 11:13:33 AM

grafstrb

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When I cook at home I typically employ the "little bit of this, little bit of that" method of cooking. Every once in a while I stumble upon some sort of genius, and I'm usually unable to recreate it because I wasn't really paying attention to what I was doing. I recently had the wherewithal to actually commit to paper the steps I took for one of these luckily fantastic dishes. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Ingredients:
3 large chicken breasts
Moroccan "45" spice blend (reddish/orange color)
Grapeseed oil
butter
flour
½ large white onion
2 garlic cloves
1lb chanterelle mushrooms (shiitakes fine, too, but perhaps decrease qty a bit)
lemon juice
salt
dry white wine
coriander seed
allspice

Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 400 F

rub chicken breasts with oil, and then with Moroccan 45 spice blend

enough oil in fry pan to coat bottom; sear chicken, 3 minutes each side

Transfer chicken to oven in baking dish; 400 F for 30 minutes, or until done

scrape extra oil and chicken bits out of the fry pan; don't worry about getting it all

make a roux; put some of the roux in the hot fry pan; let melt/brown

brunoise half a white onion

Smash/mince 2 cloves of garlic

put onion and garlic in the melted/browned roux; cook for a few minutes over medium heat

add 1lb chanterelle mushrooms to the onions and garlic; cook until the mushrooms start to release their liquid

add ¼ C water with a little bit of lemon juice to the mushrooms/onions/garlic; continue to cook uncovered

add a little bit of salt to help mushrooms and onion release more liquid

add up to ¾ C white wine; continue cooking to reduce

use mortar and pestle to grind coriander seed and allspice; add to the mushrooms and onion

pour mushroom/onion sauce over chicken breast

{pair with Chardonnay, Chenin Blanc, or an oxidative white}

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RE: Chicken with Chanterelle Mushroom Sauce - 1/13/2018 8:58:36 AM

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I love this sort of thing. Chanterelles are terrific but damn expensive here in the US. In Germany and Austria in "Pfifferlinge" season you can get many good or less good chanterelle dishes in most traditional restaurants. I find they are great in a cream sauce but even better when prepared simply. I once ate a multi-course meal at Berlin's Restaurant Weinstein that included a bowl of lightly pan seared chanterelles topped with a soft boiled quail egg... and it was magnificent.

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RE: Chicken with Chanterelle Mushroom Sauce - 1/13/2018 10:23:43 AM

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I agree completely. I always try to keep Chanterelle preparations simple --- their delicious, but delicate, flavor will be completely lost if they are over-cooked and/or over-complicated. This recipe really let them shine, imo.

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RE: Chicken with Chanterelle Mushroom Sauce - 1/14/2018 6:56:59 AM

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We get them wild during the humid period of the summer... I can pick a pound of them in a few minutes outside the door. Of course real forest mushrooms have mites, so maybe I need two pounds, since they need a lot of cleaning. I’ll try this!

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RE: Chicken with Chanterelle Mushroom Sauce - 1/16/2018 9:08:04 AM

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made this again tonight, but this time with Shiitake mushrooms. If substituting Shiitakes in place of Chanterelles, I'd recommend using a little bit less. A Chenin from Vouvray worked well with it tonight.

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RE: Chicken with Chanterelle Mushroom Sauce - 1/16/2018 8:14:47 PM

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Thanks for the update - absolutely plan to try this. Sounds terrific.

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RE: Chicken with Chanterelle Mushroom Sauce - 1/17/2018 8:35:12 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: grafstrb

made this again tonight, but this time with Shiitake mushrooms. If substituting Shiitakes in place of Chanterelles, I'd recommend using a little bit less. A Chenin from Vouvray worked well with it tonight.

That was my first thought for pairing when I saw the title of the post =)

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RE: Chicken with Chanterelle Mushroom Sauce - 2/3/2018 9:24:48 PM

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Chanterelles are often at stupid prices ($20/lb+) but I sometimes find them at SE Asian markets for cheap (OK, and Costco at $10/lb). Today I got a 1.5 pounds of yellowfoot chanterelles at $2.99/lb = score (I took all they had out). And now I see this recipe, so guess I know what I'll be cooking.

I also found fresh garbanzo beans in the shell, fried them up in the shell with Moroccan spices and took them to some friends, no leftovers.

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RE: Chicken with Chanterelle Mushroom Sauce - 2/5/2018 10:20:04 PM

grafstrb

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$3/lb for chanterelles!!?! SCORE!!

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RE: Chicken with Chanterelle Mushroom Sauce - 2/6/2018 8:29:50 AM

Redrunners

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Looks like a great recipe. Nice mixture of spices and flavors.

Will have to add this to my list of things to try

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