Chicken Ala Tewksbury Food

CHICKEN A LA KING

Steps:

• In a large saucepan over medium heat, melt 1/4 cup of the butter, and saute the shallots until softened, about 4 to 5 minutes. Sprinkle in the flour, and cook, stirring with a wooden spoon for 2 minutes. Whisk in the sherry and broth and bring to a boil while stirring. Add the parsley and thyme sprigs, lower the heat to maintain a gentle simmer. Cook the sauce for 30 minutes, stirring frequently.
• Meanwhile, heat the remaining butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat, saute the mushrooms until golden brown, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Strain the sauce into mushrooms and season with the salt, pepper, cayenne, and nutmeg. Whisk in the creme fraiche.
• Add the minced parsley, chicken, and chives to the sauce, and bring to a simmer. Adjust seasoning with salt and pepper. Serve immediately over noodles, toast points, split baking powder biscuits or wrapped in crepes.
• Put the parsley, thyme, onion, carrot, celery, and chicken breasts in a medium saucepan. Cover with the broth, and bring just to a boil. Lower the heat to very low and cover. Poach the chicken for 20 minutes or until firm to the touch. Remove the pan from the heat, uncover, and cool the chicken in the liquid for 30 minutes.
• Transfer the chicken to a cutting board and reserve the liquid. Bone and skin the chicken and cut the meat into cubes. Discard the bones and skin.
• Strain the broth and store, covered, in the refrigerator for 3 days or freeze for later use. Remove any fat from the surface of the broth before using.
• Yield: 4 to 6 servings

CHICKEN A LA KING

Steps:

• Place a large, deep-sided skillet over medium-high heat with EVOO, 2 turns of the pan. Add the celery, onions, carrots and bay leaf and season with a little salt and pepper. Cook, stirring frequently, for about 7 to 8 minutes. Add the red bell pepper and continue to cook for an additional 2 to 3 minutes. Scoot the veggies over to the sides and add the butter to the center of the skillet. Once the butter has melted, add the flour and cook for about 1 minute. Whisk in the white wine, chicken stock and cream. Bring the liquids up to a simmer, then add the chicken pieces. Bring back up to a simmer and add the asparagus. Simmer the mixture until the chicken is cooked through and the asparagus is tender, about 10 to 12 minutes more. Cool and store for a make-ahead meal. Reheat over medium heat.
• To serve: Add the peas and tarragon to the a la King mixture and stir to combine. Adjust seasoning.
• Preheat the oven according to package directions for the puff-pastry shells. Arrange the shells on a nonstick baking sheet, then place in oven. Bake until golden, remove from oven and let cool.
• Serve mixture filling and spilling over the pastry cups, 2 per person. Garnish each dish with noodles and chives.

LONG LIVE THE CHICKEN A LA KING!

Steps:

• Preheat oven according to package directions for biscuits. Arrange biscuits on nonstick baking sheet and sprinkle with a little ground cayenne pepper or sweet paprika then place biscuits into a preheated oven. Bake until golden, remove biscuits from oven and then cool.
• In a medium skillet, bring 1 cup white wine and 2 cups chicken broth and 1 bay leaf to a boil. Slide in chicken breasts and gently poach them in simmering broth and wine for 10 to 12 minutes.
• Preheat a second skillet over medium heat. Add oil and butter. When butter melts into oil, add mushrooms and onion and cook 5 minutes until tender. Add flour and cook another minute.
• Pull chicken from broth and set on cutting board. Ladle cooking liquid into the mushrooms, whisking it in. Add 2 to 2 1/2 cups of liquid and discard the bay leaf. Add pimentos and peas to the sauce. Dice chicken into bite-size pieces and slide into bubbling sauce.
• Split the biscuits, place bottoms on dinner plates and cover with ladles of Chicken a la King. Cap with biscuit tops and garnish with chopped parsley.

CHEF JOHN'S CHICKEN A LA KING

Steps:

• Melt butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms and salt. Saute until mushrooms release their moisture. Continue cooking until moisture evaporates and mushrooms begin to brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Add shallots; cook and stir just until shallots soften, 3 or 4 minutes.
• Reduce heat to medium. Stir in flour to coat the mushrooms; cook until flour begins to turn golden, about 5 minutes, to form roux. Add peppers; cook and stir about 1 minute. Pour in sherry wine; allow to sizzle about 30 seconds. Stir in stock. Raise heat to medium-high and bring to a simmer. When it starts to bubble, reduce heat to medium-low and cook until slightly thickened, 10 to 15 minutes stirring occasionally. Add nutmeg and cayenne pepper.
• Stir in thyme, parsley, cream, and chicken. Reduce heat to low and cook until chicken is heated through, about 5 minutes. Check seasonings and adjust as needed. Top each serving with some chopped fresh chives.

CHICKEN ALA TEWKSBURY

Steps:

• Combine flour and pepper in a shallow dish. Dredge chicken in flour mixture. Heat butter, oil, shallots, garlic and basil over medium heat.
• Add chicken, cook about 3 minute each side.
• removr chicken and move to warm oven.
• Add wine to pan juices. Cook 2 min., scrapping up the good bits.
• Return chicken to pan and cook until sauce reduces nicely. Garnish with parsley.

CHICKEN (OR TURKEY) A LA KING

Steps:

• For sauce, melt butter or margarine in a large saucepan.
• Stir in flour, salt, and pepper.
• Add the milk, water and bouillon all at once.
• Cook and stir over medium heat until thick and bubbly.
• Stir in the chicken or turkey, mushrooms, peas and pimiento.
• Continue to stir and cook until sauce bubbles again.
• Serve over toast points, English muffins or biscuits.

CHICKEN (TURKEY) A LA KING IN TOAST CUPS

Steps:

• Cut crusts off bread.
• Using a rolling pin, roll each slice to 1/4 inch thickness.
• Fit each into lightly greased 6 oz custard cup or jumbo muffin pan.
• Bake in centre of 375 degree Fahrenheit oven until golden brown, about 8 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in a large saucepan, melt butter over medium heat; cook onion, carrot, celery, red pepper, salt, pepper, and thyme, stirring occasionally, until onion is softened, about 2 minutes.
• Add flour; cook, stirring constantly, for 1 minute.
• Whisk in stock, milk and vinegar; cook, whisking often, until thick enough to coat back of spoon, about 10 minutes.
• Add chicken and peas; cook until bubbly and peas are tender, about 3 minutes.
• Spoon into toast cups just before serving.

CHICKEN ALA' KING ON PUFF PASTRY SHELL

Steps:

• Preheat oven to the temperature recommended for puff pastry shells.
• Bake puff pastry shells according to package directions. Bake and cool. This can be done ahead of time. Remove center of puff pastry, save for topping.
• Reduce oven temperature to 325-350° for baking chicken.
• Bake chicken breast using recipe Or use recipe Recipe #234465. Cool and remove skin. Cube chicken, set aside.
• Over a low to medium heat, saute the red bell pepper, sliced scallions and sliced mushrooms in butter for approximately 3-5 minutes. Do not over cook. Remove from heat and set aside.
• In the mean time, make a white sauce.
• Melt butter, add chicken bullion seasoning, add flour and whisk to combine. It will thicken at this point. Slowly add the milk, 1/2 C at a time, continuing to whisk until the sauce thickens. You may not use all the milk.
• Add frozen peas to the sauce. Add the peppers, onions, mushrooms and chicken. Warm through.
• Spoon sauce mixture over each puff pastry shell, top with the center of the shell you removed.
• Enjoy!

BEST EVER CHICKEN A LA KING

Steps:

• Cook and stir drained mushrooms and green pepper in butter over medium heat for 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
• Blend in flour, salt and pepper. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is bubbly and thickened.
• Stir in bouillon, milk, wster, wine and reserved mushroom liquid. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir for 1 minute.
• Stir in chicken and pimento. Heat through.
• Serve over rice, biscuits or toast.