Chicken and mushrooms are the most successful combination of foods. This wonderful hearty dish is suitable not only for the daily menu, but also for the festive table. And in this article you will learn one of the many options for preparing these products.
Recipe content:
- Useful Tips
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
The delicate and neutral taste of chicken meat is perfectly set off by the rich taste of mushrooms. You can use all sorts of sauces for this dish, like creamy or tomato. The mushrooms themselves can be alternated depending on the season. Any forest mushrooms are also suitable: chanterelles, aspen mushrooms, and porcini mushrooms, or artificially grown: champignons and oyster mushrooms.
Everyone who loves chicken meat knows all the ways to cook it. This is an excellent dietary product that is pickled, fried, boiled, baked. However, stewed chicken is considered the most delicious dish that remains out of competition with other methods of heat treatment. This method of cooking allows you to fully experience all the amazing taste and tenderness of poultry meat, since in the process of such cooking, all the numerous useful properties are preserved in the chicken as much as possible.
For stewing, according to experienced cooks, a cauldron remains the best dish. It can be a cast iron or aluminum pan (rooster) with thick sides and bottom. Despite the fact that many housewives believe that the cauldron is only suitable for pilaf, you can cook many different other delicious dishes in it. It warms up evenly and not too quickly, which allows food not to burn and cook gradually. In addition, using a cauldron, you can significantly reduce oil consumption. In the absence of a cauldron, a stewpan or wok is used, in which the chicken also turns out to be juicy, fragrant and tender.
Useful Tips for Cooking Mushroom Chicken Stew
- If you decide to add onions to the dish, then the most painless way for the eyes is a stream of water. It is necessary to periodically place a knife blade under it.
- The smell of chicken when stewing can be destroyed by a small slice of Antonovka apple.
- Spices, especially rosemary and thyme, are recommended to be added at the last moment of stewing. If they are stewed for a long time, they will leave bitterness in the dish.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 93 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Any chicken parts - 500 g
- Champignons - 500 g
- Sour cream - 200 g
- Bay leaf - 3 pcs.
- Allspice to taste - 4 pcs.
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
- Ground black pepper - 0.5 tsp or to taste
Cooking mushroom stew
1. Wash the chicken parts and dry well with a paper towel. To make the dish more juicy, I recommend using the fatty parts of it, the lower leg, wings, and thighs. Although chicken fillet will work too, only it will have to be pre-marinated in milk or wine. This will help the meat to become softer and more tender.
2. Wash the champignons, dry and cut into 2 parts. If the mushrooms are too large, cut them into 6-8 pieces.
3. Place the cast iron cookware on the stove, add oil and heat well. Then send the chicken to roast. Set the heat to high and grill the chicken until medium golden. The high temperature will allow the meat to immediately crust over and retain all the juiciness.
4. Then add mushrooms to the meat. Do not add mushrooms until the meat is browned. Since mushrooms release a lot of liquid during frying, and the meat will no longer be fried, but stewed.
5. Fry the food for about 10 minutes and add the sour cream. You can replace it with cream or tomato paste. Also add salt, pepper and any spices to taste. I added curry and red paprika powder. These spices combine well and complement the flavor and aroma of the dish.
6. Bring the food to a boil, reduce the temperature and simmer the food with the lid on for about 40 minutes. At the end of cooking, taste the dish. If there are not enough spices, then add.
7. Serve hot chicken with mushrooms with any side dish. Mashed potatoes, boiled porridge, rice or spaghetti are perfect.
See also a video recipe on how to cook chicken with mushrooms.
