Chicken Breasts Inwards Champagne Sauce

Chicken Breasts simmered inwards Champagne Sauce it may non hold upwards 1 of the prettiest dishes around, but it's sure enough 1 of the tastiest.

You know, this is 1 of those dishes where I merely stimulate got to state "Look past times the photos!" 'Cause let's confront it, these chicken breasts are merely obviously unattractive. But I hope you, what they lack inwards skillful looks, they to a greater extent than than brand upwards for inwards peachy flavor!

But inwards my humble opinion, how tin laissez passer the axe something made amongst champagne {or sparkling wine, if nosotros desire to hold upwards politically correct} not stimulate got peachy flavor?

Yes, I am a fan of the bubbly.

Or 'bubbles,' equally my best friend as well as I say. As in, "Would you lot similar a drinking glass of bubbles?" Mmm hmmm, I'm such a fan I fifty-fifty stimulate got a Pinterest board called Bubbles.

Love the stuff.

So it's actually no surprise that I dear this champagne chicken. And it merely thus happens to hold upwards 1 of my hubby's favorites, too.

One of the things nosotros dear nearly this is, spell the champagne sauce is genuinely a really uncomplicated sauce, it packs actually peachy flavor. Yes, the sauce is a uncomplicated combination of gently-cooked onion, celery, mushrooms, as well as champagne thickened amongst a impact of cream. That's it.

The chicken breasts are cooked inwards the sauce, making them overnice as well as tender. And the sauce is thus spooned on travel past times when served.

Add a lilliputian rice to the mix, as well as you've got yourself 1 pretty quick as well as delicious meal. That genuinely tastes soooo much meliorate than it looks!

And I stimulate got to acknowledge that photographing this chicken was in all likelihood 1 of the most frustrating photograph shoots I've done. The showtime challenge was that I ordinarily shoot on white dishes. Well, ummmm ... stimulate got you lot looked at the chicken? There's actually non a run upwards of color inwards it. A white dish merely wasn't going to aid the situation. At all.

So I grabbed pretty much the exclusively non-white plate I own. And did the best I could amongst it.

Which all the same wasn't great.

And thus it seemed that no affair what I did, I merely couldn't brand the shoot work. I don't know if it was the lighting that day. Or if I merely didn't actually experience similar doing a photograph shoot. Or what.

But sometimes it's similar that. 'Cause photographing nutrient tin laissez passer the axe hold upwards really hard. Let me tell ya, afterwards 3 years of photographing for this blog, I genuinely stimulate got developed HUGE abide by for all the professional person photographers out there! It takes a lot to a greater extent than to create a beautiful photograph than I always imagined.

So anyway, you lot may merely desire to ignore the photos inwards this post. While Chicken Breasts inwards Champagne Sauce mightiness non hold upwards the prettiest dish around, inwards our majority it is 1 of the tastiest!

Chicken Breasts inwards Champagne Sauce

Source: Adapted from Cooking Light magazine
(Printable recipe)

Ingredients

4 boneless, skinless chicken thorax halves
4 T. butter
3/4 c. finely diced onion (about 1 small-scale onion)
1/2 c. finely diced celery
3/4 c. finely diced fresh mushrooms (not quite all of an 8 oz. package)
1/3 c. chicken broth
2/3 c. champagne
2/3 c. heavy cream or whole milk
1/4 c. all-purpose flour
Salt & pepper

Directions

Sprinkle chicken lightly amongst tabular array salt as well as pepper on both sides. Place chicken betwixt sheets of waxed paper; using a meat mallet (the polish side), flatten to unopen to 1/2 to 3/4-inch thick. Set aside.
Heat 3 tablespoons of the butter inwards a large skillet over medium-low heat. Add diced onion, celery, as well as mushrooms; saute for 1 minute. Add chicken broth as well as a dash of salt; cover, trim oestrus to low, as well as prepare vegetables gently for v minutes. (The vegetables should non brownish add together a smidge to a greater extent than broth during cooking, if needed.)
Push vegetables to the edges of the skillet, add together remaining 1 tablespoon of butter to the take in of the pan, as well as growth oestrus to medium. Quickly dredge chicken inwards flour, shaking off the excess, as well as add together chicken to the pan.
Cook chicken for two minutes. Then plough chicken over as well as strew the vegetables from the edges of the pan on travel past times of the chicken.
Add champagne to the pan as well as allow it bubble upwards for nearly 10 seconds. Stir inwards cream (or milk). Reduce oestrus to medium-low, cover, as well as prepare gently for v minutes or until chicken is cooked through.
Serve over cooked rice.

Enjoy!

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