Mushroom Cajun Chicken
- 6 (6-ounce) chicken breasts
- 2 tablespoons Irvine Spices Cajun Spice
- 3 tablespoons butter
- 12 scallions, white and tender green parts only, sliced on the diagonal
- 2 cups fresh button mushrooms, sliced (about 6 ounces)
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 1 (10 1/2-ounce) can condensed cream of mushroom soup
- 1/2 cup demi-glace
- 1/2 cup chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley, (about 1-ounce in weight)
- Rinse chicken breasts and pat them dry with paper toweling.
- Rub with Cajun spice and set aside.
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
- Melt butter over medium-high heat in a large skillet or saute pan with an oven safe handle, and saute scallions and mushrooms until they are tender and the mushrooms begin to give up their juices.
- With a slotted spoon remove mushrooms and scallions to a utility platter and keep covered (with aluminum foil or a lid) in a warm place.
- (Leave room on the platter for the chicken.)
- Add seasoned chicken to the skillet, searing all sides.
- Deglaze the pan with white wine, let sizzle for a few minutes and spoon the wine and juices over the chicken to coat, and then cover pan and transfer to oven.
- Bake until fork tender, about 25 minutes.
- While the chicken is in the oven, heat the mushroom soup in a small saucepan and whisk in demi-glace to give it additional flavor.
- Cover and let simmer over low heat.
- Remove chicken from oven (be sure to use an oven mitt - the handle on that pan will be hot!)
- and use tongs to transfer the chicken to the utility platter (alongside the mushroom mixture).
- Cover and keep warm.
- Add about 1/2 cup water to the pan in which the chicken was baking and stir to loosen the browned bits of flavor on the bottom.
- Place a strainer over the pot of mushroom soup and demi-glace and (still using an oven mitt for that hot handle) pour the juice from the chicken pan through the strainer into the sauce.
- Whisk together the sauce and pan juices and let cook for a few more minutes to integrate flavors.
- Place chicken on serving dish.
- Spoon sauce over.
- Top with sauteed mushrooms/onions and garnish with chopped parsley.
chicken breasts, cajun spice, butter, scallions, fresh button mushrooms, white wine, condensed cream, demiglace, parsley
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/robert-irvine/mushroom-cajun-chicken-recipe.html (may not work)