Boneless Chicken Recipe
Apple Cider Reduction Sauce
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You can see from the picture that this is a sophisticated-looking chicken breast recipe, as well as a colorful one. The combination of apples, mushrooms, cider, cream and more makes this a really mouthwatering recipe for chicken breast. There are a few tips you can use for moist boneless chicken breast and one of the best ones is to poach the chicken in liquid; it will come out moist and juicy whether you use dry cider, water, wine or something else. This recipe for chicken breast is full-flavored and really easy to prepare. The whole family will like this one.
Chicken Breast in an Apple Cider Reduction Sauce
This is a wonderfully easy stir-fried chicken recipe and it goes very nicely with mashed potato or boiled rice. The apple, mushroom and celery flavors complement one another very well and this would be a nice, quick recipe to make on a busy weekday evening. Actually, it is tasty enough to make for a dinner party too. Apples and chicken are great partners and you can also make chilled easy chicken recipes using apple, for example by grilling a chicken breast, and serving it on a bed of salad leaves and grated apple. Cooked apple is also nice in chicken casserole recipes and other breast chicken recipes.
This is quite an unusual dish. The double cream elevates the meal from being healthy into being mostly healthy but a bit indulgent too. The rich creaminess of this wonderfully easy chicken recipe counteracts the sharpness of the cider and rounds out the overall flavor. The hard (dry) apple cider also helps make for moist boneless chicken breast and is a wonderful choice of recipe for chicken breast. This chicken breast recipe uses an apple cider reduction sauce to keep the chicken moist and tender.
The poultry is rubbed with a combination of salt and allspice to give it a good, well-rounded flavor before you cook it and this flavor also complements the apple cider reduction sauce taste. Cooked celery is something that people either love or hate but leaving the pieces whole means that anybody who is not a fan of this healthy vegetable can easily leave it on the side of their plate. Serve this delicious chicken breast in an apple reduction sauce with white rice or potatoes. A scoop of creamy mashed potato would be a satisfying side dish with this cider flavored chicken.
Cider Flavored Chicken
Ingredients -
1 pint dry (Hard) apple cider
2 chicken breasts
½ teaspoon salt
½ teaspoon ground allspice
2 tablespoons butter
2 apples, peeled and chopped
3 ribs celery, sliced
½ lb mushrooms, sliced
4 tablespoons heavy cream
Preparation:
Boil the apple cider in a pan until it reduces by half to make the apple cider reduction sauce.
Rub the chicken breasts with salt and allspice.
Melt half the butter in a frying pan and add the apples and mushrooms. Fry until golden brown.
Remove the apple and mushrooms and add the rest of the butter to the pan.
Fry the chicken breasts until brown all over.
Add the cider and bring it to the boil. Add the celery, turn down the heat, and simmer gently for 20 minutes.
Add the apples and mushrooms for the last 5 minutes and stir in the heavy cream before serving.
(Serves 4)