Chicken in a Blanket Recipe

Summary

Cooking Time2 Hr 20 MinDifficulty LevelMedium
Health IndexHealthyServings4
CuisineCourse
MethodMain Ingredient
Interest Group

Ingredients

 Boiling Fowl - 1 no, small OR Boiling Chicken Joints - 4 to 6 nos
 Carrots1
 Onion1
 Celery sticks1 , sliced
 Butter1 Ounce
 Bay leaf1
 Mace - 1 blade
 Water1 1 /2 Pint
 Salt1 To taste
 Pepper To Taste
 Dry Mustard - a pinch
 Button mushroom4 Ounce
 Fried Bread - for garnish

Directions

MAKING
1) Into a large cooking pot, add in the fowl, carrots, onion and celery along with the butter, bay leaf, mace, salt, pepper and mustard.
2) Let the mixture cook on simmer for about 2 hours or till the fowl becomes tender.
3) To prepare the sauce, in a saucepan, mix together 2 ounce butter, 2 ounce flour and 3/4 pint of chicken stock.
4) Add in 4 ounces of the mushroom into the saucepan. Cook on simmer for a few minutes. Add in 1/4 pint of cream. Season the mixture and stir once. Do not let the mixture boil.
5) Pour the mushroom sauce over the fowl and vegetable mixture.

SERVING
6) Serve Chicken in a Blanket garnished with bread traingles that have been fired in butter.
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