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Quick Tarragon Chicken with Chestnut and Morel Mushrooms

by Nick Nairn

Easy and quick to make, this meal is perfect for rustling up in half an hour on those tired weekday evenings.

Prep time

15 minutes

Cook time

1 hour

Difficulty

Medium

Servings

4

Instructions:

Step 1

Skin the chicken breasts and slice the meat vertically, across the grain of meat, into even-sized thin escalopes of about a centimeter in thickness, to give roughly 3 pieces per breast. Season with salt and pepper.

Step 2

Heat a large frying pan over a medium heat and add the oil. Add the chicken piece one at a time, ensuring they are not on top of each other. Leave them alone in the pan to allow a nice crust to form. Turn the chicken pieces over and cook for another 2-3 minutes as above.

Step 3

Add the butter, the soaked morels (retain the liquid for later) and quartered chestnut mushrooms to the pan, moving them around in the butter to ensure they take on a nice colour. Pour in the wine and deglaze using a heatproof spatula to scrape all the flavour and caramelised pieces from the bottom of the pan. Reduce by half, then add the stick plus 4 tablespoons of the strained mushroom soaking liquid and reduce by half again.

Step 4

Add the cream and chopped tarragon and bring to a simmer. Further reduce he sauce until it has a good coating consistency on the back of the spoon. If you have a thermoprobe thermometer, the serving temperature of the meat should be 80°C. Check the seasoning.

Step 5

For the potatoes, boil them in plenty of boiling, salted water until tender – for 15-20minutes, then lightly fork them with the butter, pepper and chopped parsley. When you’re ready to serve, spoon the hot crushed parsley potato into a mousse ring (or cake cutter) on a warmed plate to make a neat round helping. Pat down gently then remove the mousse ring. Place the chicken on the plates with steamed greens on the side and the sauce and mushrooms spooned round.

Enjoy!

Ingredients:

  • 4 tbsp olive oil
  • 4 free-range organic chicken breasts, skin on
  • 60g Graham’s organic unsalted butter
  • 20g dried morels, soaked in warm water for 15 mins
  • 100g chestnut mushrooms, cleaned and quartered
  • 200ml dry white wine
  • 200ml brown chicken stock
  • 200ml Graham’s organic double cream
  • 2 tbsp fresh tarragon, chopped
  • Maldon sea salt
  • Freshly ground black pepper

To serve:

  • 200g spring greens – we used asparagus and broccoli
  • 300g new potatoes, scrubbed
  • 25g parsley
  • 50g Graham’s organic slightly salted butter