Chicken With Mushrooms Or Morels

Chicken with morels is a wonderfully tasty dish you can make so easily at home. It can be made with any mushrooms if you cannot purchase morels and its a definite winner for entertaining.

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Chicken with mushrooms or morels is a wonderfully tasty dish you can make so easily at home. It can be made with any type of mushroom that is available, they are all delicious. Its a definite winner for entertaining or for a busy weeknight meal because it is easy to put together and takes very little time.

❤️About This Recipe

Why we love it and you will too!

This recipe is so tasty you will be hard pressed to believe it was so easy to make! The standout ingredient is the morel mushrooms and their superb taste.

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📋Ingredients

• skinless chicken breasts
• shallots
• tablespoons butter
• sparkling dry wine or champagne
• brandy
• dried morel mushrooms
• button mushrooms
• thick cream
• dried thyme
• cup chicken stock
• Salt and ground black pepper
• olive oil

🔢Instructions

1. If using dried morels, rinse them under running water in a strainer.
2. Place them in a bowl and just cover them with water to soak. This will take about 20 minutes depending on their size.
3. Strain the morels and keep the liquid for flavoring this recipe or others like soup.
4. If using fresh morels, rinse well under cold water checking the tops for bugs or worms, dry well.
5. Slice the morels in half length wise but keep a few whole ones aside for later.
6. For the button mushrooms brush off with a vegetable brush or rinse quickly, dry well, and leave small ones whole and slice large in half.
7. Melt half the butter in a heavy bottomed pan and cook the shallots until they are soft but not browned.
8. Now add all the mushrooms and cook for 3 minutes, stirring as you go.
9. Season at this stage and add the brandy and ⅓ of the cream.
10. Reduce the heat and simmer until all the liquid has evaporated.
11. Remove this mixture from the pan and keep aside until cool.
12. Prepare the chicken breasts by making a pocket in each one - cut a slit along the thick edge but do not cut all the way through.
13. Fill each of the chicken breasts with some of the cooked mushroom mixture and close the slit - use a small toothpick if necessary
14. Now melt the remaining butter along with the olive oil (this prevents the butter from burning) and cook each of the chicken breasts for about 10 minutes until golden brown on each side.
15. Arrange the chicken breasts on a warm plate and set aside.
16. Add the wine or champagne to the pan and boil, reducing it to half.
17. Add the strained morel cooking liquid and boil again and reduce by half
18. Add the remaining cream and cook the sauce until it thickens.
19. Taste the sauce at this stage and adjust the seasoning if necessary by adding more salt.
20. Return the chicken to the pan with any juices, along with the whole morels and simmer them for a few minutes.

And there you have it – Chicken With Mushrooms – a thoroughly beautiful meal made in just a few minutes!

As shown in this picture there is a plethora of mushroom types. They are all touted by many people as having health benefits. We eat mushrooms often and I love these recipes Chicken Fricassée Recipe, Cream of Mushroom Soup Recipe, and this Mushroom Paté Recipe for snacking and when guests come over.

🔄Substitutions

I tend to use shiitake mushrooms (as in the photo above) or oyster mushrooms when I cannot get morels.

But, it is also very good with button mushrooms too, so your chicken with mushrooms dinner will be tasty and results are fabulous regardless of what kind of fungi you use.

Yes, mushrooms are fungi, with some being cultivated by farmers, and some are foraged for in the forest.

What To Serve With This Recipe?

1. Rice Pilaf: A fragrant and light rice dish cooked with aromatic herbs and spices, such as basmati rice with saffron, herbs, and cardamom pods.
2. Mashed Potatoes: Creamy mashed potatoes are always a classic choice. You can prepare them plain or add flavors like roasted garlic, Parmesan cheese, or chives.
3. Asparagus: Cook asparagus spears according to the directons and rather than make a hollandaise sauce to serve on it, the sauce from the chicken with morels will be delicious on the asparagus too.

📖 Recipe

Chicken With Morels

Judith Coates

Chicken with morels is a wonderfully tasty dish you can make so easily at home. It can be made with any mushrooms if you cannot purchase morels and its a definite winner for entertaining.

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Servings 4 people

Ingredients

  

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• 4 skinless chicken breasts
• 6 shallots thinly sliced
• 4 tablespoons butter
• ¾ cup sparkling dry wine or champagne
• 3 tablespoons brandy
• 1½ ounce dried morels or 1 ½ cups fresh morel mushrooms chopped
• 4 ounce button mushrooms thinly sliced
• ¾ cup thick cream
• ¼ teaspoon dried thyme
• 1 cup chicken stock
• Salt and ground black pepper
• 1 tablespoon olive oil

Instructions

 

• Rinse the morels under running water in a strainer
• Place them in a heavy bottomed pan with the stock and bring to the boil
• Remove from the heat and leave to stand for about 1 hour
• Strain the morels through a fine sieve and keep the liquid
• Slice the morels but keep a few whole ones aside for later
• Melt half the butter in a heavy bottomed pan and cook the shallots until they are soft but not browned
• Now add the morrels and the button mushrooms and cook for 3 minutes, stirring as you go
• Season at this stage and add the brandy and ⅓ of the cream
• Reduce the heat and simmer until all the liquid has evaporated
• Remove this mixture from the pan and keep aside until cool
• Prepare the chicken breasts by making a pocket in each one - cut a slit along the thick edge but do not cut all the way through
• Fill each of the chicken breasts with some of the morel mixture and close the slit - use a small toothpick if necessary
• Now melt the remaining butter along with the olive oil (this prevents the butter from burning) and cook each of the chicken breasts for about 10 minutes until golden brown on each side
• Arrange the chicken breasts on a warm plate and set aside
• Add the wine or champagne to the pan and boil, reducing it to half.
• Add the strained morel cooking liquid and boil again and reduce by half
• Add the remaining cream and cook the sauce until it thickens
• Taste the sauce at this stage and adjust the seasoning if necessary
• Return the chicken to the pan with any juices, along with the whole morels and simmer them for a few minutes
• And there you have it – chicken with morels – a thoroughly beautiful meal made in just a few minutes.

Notes

What To Serve With This Recipe?

1. Rice Pilaf: A fragrant and light rice dish cooked with aromatic herbs and spices, such as basmati rice with saffron, herbs, and cardamom pods.
2. Garlic Mashed Potatoes: Creamy mashed potatoes are always a classic choice. You can prepare them plain or add flavors like roasted garlic, Parmesan cheese, or chives.
3. Asparagus: Cook asparagus spears according to the directons and rather than make a hollandaise sauce to serve on it, the sauce from the chicken with morels will be delicious on the asparagus too.

Keyword asparagus, chicken, morels, rice pilaf

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👩🏻‍🔬 Food Safety

It is important to remember that there are a variety of wonderful mushrooms to cook with but there are also many which are poisonous to consume. It is a safer practice to let the experts do the foraging.