Chicken in Cream
- 3 tablespoons butter or 3 tablespoons margarine
- 1 small onion, thinly sliced
- 14 cup flour
- 12 teaspoon paprika
- 12 teaspoon salt
- 14 teaspoon nutmeg
- 18 teaspoon basil
- 4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
- 1 cup chicken broth
- 12 cup heavy cream
- 8 ounces fresh large mushrooms, sliced
- 16 ounces whole pimientos, drained, cut into strips
- 2 tablespoons sherry wine
- Melt 1 tlbs butter in large, deep skillet.
- Add onion and cook until tender, Remove and reserve.
- Mix flour, paprika, salt, nutmeg and basil in a gallon size plastic bag.
- Put chicken in bag and shake until well coated.
- Heat broth in small pan.
- Melt remaining butter in skillet.
- Add chicken and cook over med high heat 2 minutes, turning once until light brown.
- Slowly add hot broth.
- Cover and simmer over low heat 10 minutes or until chicken is tender.
- Slowly add cream, increase heat to med low and simmer gently, uncovered 5 minutes longer.
- Remove chicken to hot platter.
- Stir in reserved onions, mushrooms, pimentos and sherry into skillet.
- Increase heat to high and boil gently 3-4 minutes until slightly thickened.
- Pour over chicken.
butter, onion, flour, paprika, salt, nutmeg, basil, chicken, chicken broth, heavy cream, mushrooms, pimientos, sherry wine
Taken from www.food.com/recipe/chicken-in-cream-356245 (may not work)