Boneless Chicken Recipe
Chicken Tetrazzini Recipe
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This photo of our delicious and authentic chicken tetrazzini recipe shows the chicken breasts with a delicious sherry-infused cream sauce. This moist and flavorful chicken is perfect with the pasta and vegetables and this delicious meal is great as it is, or served with a bread roll and perhaps some salad. Kids will love this easy chicken tetrazzini recipe just as much as the adults will and if you are looking for a simple recipe, which is tasty enough to serve to guests, this chicken breasts in mushroom cream sauce recipe should definitely feature on your shortlist.
Authentic Chicken Tetrazzini
If you like baked chicken recipes, you might like to try your hand at making this delicious, authentic chicken tetrazzini recipe, which is chicken in a rich, creamy sauce, served over pasta. There are various recipes for chicken Tetrazzini, each varying slightly, and we have chosen this version of the dish because it is not too difficult to make and the resulting meal is simply wonderful. Using frozen peas and carrots cuts down considerably on the preparation time and kids will love this colorful and tasty dish as much as the adults will.
The creamy sauce features dry sherry to add a touch of elegance, as well as flour to thicken it up and chicken broth to complement the flavor of the chicken. The cream finishes the sauce off perfectly and makes this a very tasty and satisfying dish. Since this dish contains pasta, chicken tetrazzini is a complete meal and you do not need to serve any side dishes with it. You might choose to offer a salad and some fresh bread alongside it however, if you want to make it a bit more filling but this is up to you.
This is one of the more international recipes with plenty of Italian ingredients in. It is believed that chef Arbogast is responsible for inventing this dish, at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco in 1908 although some people dispute the fact. Whatever the truth is, about the origins of this easy chicken tetrazzini, the fact that it is a delicious dish and very simple to prepare is undisputed.
Chicken Breasts with Mushroom Cream Sauce
Ingredients -
3 cups cooked chicken, chopped
8 oz tagliatelle pasta
6 tablespoons butter
8 oz mushrooms, sliced
¼ cup dry sherry
⅓ cup grated parmesan cheese
2 cups chicken broth
1 cup half and half cream
½ cup frozen peas and carrots
¼ cup all purpose flour
½ teaspoons salt
Black pepper
Paprika
Preparation:
Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.
Cook the tagliatelle according to the instructions on the pack.
Melt 2 tablespoons of the butter over a medium low heat in a skillet and sauté the mushrooms until they are golden.
Melt the rest of the butter in a saucepan and stir in the flour and salt until smooth. Add the cream and chicken broth. Cook, stirring continuously, until the sauce has thickened.
Add the mushrooms, peas, carrots, chicken and sherry and cook until the peas and carrots are soft.
Place the noodles in a buttered baking dish and pour the sauce over the top.
Sprinkle Parmesan, black pepper and paprika over the top and bake for 15 minutes until hot and bubbly.
Serve immediately.
(Serves 8)