Chicken Marsala With Marsala Mushroom Sauce
Ingredients
For the Marsala Sauce
- 1tablespoon olive oil
- 2teaspoons butter
- 3tablespoons shallotsminced
- 4ounces crimini mushroomssliced
- 1 1/4cups sweet marsala wine
- 2cups water
- 3ounces Demi-glace
- 2each bay leaves
- 1tablespoon thyme leaves
- a/n coarse salt
- a/n black pepper
- a/n lemon juice
- 2teaspoons buttersoftened
- 2teaspoons flouroptional
For the Chicken Marsala:
- 4each chicken breasts, bnls/sknlspounded to 1/4 inch thickenss. (may need to cut in half lengthwise)
- 1/4cup flour
- a/n coarse salt
- a/n black pepper
- 1teaspoon thyme leaves
- 2tablespoons olive oil
- 1/3cup sweet marsala wine
- 2tablespoons butter
- a/n lemon juice
Yield:
Instructions
To make sauce:
- In a large heavy skillet, heat the olive oil and butter over medium heat.
- When hot, add the shallots and mushrooms and cook, stirring, about 3 minutes or until the moisture from the mushrooms evaporates.
- Add the wine, bring to a boil and cook, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes or until almost dry.
- Stir in the water, then the demi-glace, the bay leaves and thyme.
- Bring to a simmer and cook 30 minutes, uncovered.
- Season with salt, pepper and lemon juice.
- If the sauce seems thin, mix the butter and flour into a paste (beurre manie) and stir a teaspoon at a time into the sauce until thickened as needed.
- Reserve warm.
To make the Chicken:
- In a large heavy skillet, heat the olive oil over medium-high heat.
- Add the chicken and cook until well browned, about 3 minutes per side.
- Remove to a warm plate.
- Add the wine and use a wooden spoon to scrape up any browned bits from the bottom.
- Add the warm mushroom sauce and the chicken breasts with any accumulated juices and continue to simmer until the chicken is heated through.
- Stir in the butter and season with salt, pepper and lemon juice as needed.
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