Chicken with A Pocketful of Mushrooms Recipe
Ingredients
| 3 whole chicken breasts, skinned, boned, and split | ||
| 1 quarter-size slice fresh ginger Sauteed mushrooms | ||
| Butter/Margarine | 3 Tablespoon | |
| 6 large fresh shiitake mushrooms or regular mushrooms | ||
| Dry sherry | 1/3 Cup (16 tbs) | |
| 1 cup regular-strength chicken broth | ||
| Soy sauce | 1 1/2 Tablespoon | |
| 1/2 teaspoon each sugar and vinegar | ||
| 1 tablespoon cornstarch mixed with 2 tablespoons water | ||
Directions
Gently pull off slim fillet on inside of each breast half; set fillets aside.
In thickest part of each half, cut a 3 1/2-inch-long pocket, about 2 inches deep.
Insert metal blade.
Mince ginger; set aside.
Prepare sauteed mushrooms; tuck 2 to 3 tablespoons into pocket in each breast half.
Melt butter in a 12 to 14-inch frying pan over medium-high heat.
Add chicken fillets and as many breasts as will fit; brown on both sides.
Remove from pan.
Add remaining breasts and whole mushrooms and brown on both sides.
Return first batch of breasts (but not fillets) to pan; then add ginger, sherry, broth, soy, sugar, and vinegar.
Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 7 minutes.
Carefully turn breasts over and add fillets.
Cover and simmer until breasts are no longer pink when slashed in thickest part (about 3 more minutes).
With a slotted spoon, lift out chicken and mushrooms and transfer to a serving dish; keep warm.
Stir cornstarch mixture into pan juices.
Increase heat to high and bring liquid to a boil, stirring; then add any juices that have collected on serving dish.
If sauce is too thick, thin by stirring in a few drops of water.
Spoon sauce over chicken and mushrooms.
In thickest part of each half, cut a 3 1/2-inch-long pocket, about 2 inches deep.
Insert metal blade.
Mince ginger; set aside.
Prepare sauteed mushrooms; tuck 2 to 3 tablespoons into pocket in each breast half.
Melt butter in a 12 to 14-inch frying pan over medium-high heat.
Add chicken fillets and as many breasts as will fit; brown on both sides.
Remove from pan.
Add remaining breasts and whole mushrooms and brown on both sides.
Return first batch of breasts (but not fillets) to pan; then add ginger, sherry, broth, soy, sugar, and vinegar.
Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 7 minutes.
Carefully turn breasts over and add fillets.
Cover and simmer until breasts are no longer pink when slashed in thickest part (about 3 more minutes).
With a slotted spoon, lift out chicken and mushrooms and transfer to a serving dish; keep warm.
Stir cornstarch mixture into pan juices.
Increase heat to high and bring liquid to a boil, stirring; then add any juices that have collected on serving dish.
If sauce is too thick, thin by stirring in a few drops of water.
Spoon sauce over chicken and mushrooms.
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