CHICKEN WELLINGTON Recipe

  Chicken

Ingredients:
CHICKEN WELLINGTON

4 (6 oz.) boned and skinned
chicken breasts
8 Tbsp. butter
3 shallots, chopped fine
1 lb. mushrooms, chopped fine
1/2 c. dry white wine
4 (6 oz.) squares puff pastry
3 Tbsp. flour
1 c. seasoned chicken broth
1/4 c. cream

Directions:
Season the chicken breasts with salt and pepper; sear
them in 6 tablespoons butter, browning them on both sides.
Cool.
Saute shallots and mushrooms in the wine; cook until dry, then cool.
Lay out the puff pastry, putting the shallots and mushrooms on the pastry.
Place a chicken breast on top of the mixture and enclose
it in the pastry by folding the corners together and sealing
the edges.
Place on a cookie sheet, sealed edges down.
Bake in preheated oven for 35 minutes.

Sauce~~
Melt remaining butter.
Add 3 tablespoons flour; cook 5 minutes.
Add chicken broth, stirring constantly; cook until thickened and simmer for 10 minutes.
Then add cream and season with salt and pepper; simmer for 5 minutes more.
Serve sauce separately.


CHICKEN WELLINGTON
 

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