Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Pan-seared Chicken Breast with Mushroom and Garlic Cream Sauce Over Spinach



Ingredients:
6                Chicken Breasts
2 1/2  C.   Fresh Mushrooms, thickly sliced
2 T.           Butter
2 T.           Olive Oil
1/3 C.       White Wine
1 C.            Skim Milk
2 T.           Flour
3                Cloves of Garlic, minced fine
1 Bag         Frozen Spinach
To Taste   Salt & Pepper


-  Heat 2 T. of olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat.

-  Salt & Pepper chicken breasts well and lay in hot pan.  Sear on each side for about 3-4 
minutes - long enough to build a good, brown color. Flip only once.

-   Finish chicken in a 350 degree oven.

-  Steam spinach either stove top or my trick - poke holes in the bag, place on a plate and steam in the bag in the microwave. Be sure to drain well... you don't want a soggy dinner.

-  In the meantime, turn heat down to medium and deglaze the pan on the stove with 1/3 C. White Wine. Scrape around the bottom of the pan with a whisk getting all the good carmelized bits of chicken off the bottom and dump mushrooms in as well as butter and garlic. Salt and pepper well.  Stir and cook for a few minutes until mushrooms have absorbed most of the liquid.

-  Sprinkle in flour and stir well.  It should form a mushroomy-paste.  Add milk and stir well until everything is broken up.  Turn heat down to low and cook for about 5 minutes until sauce thickens.  Turn off heat, it will thicken further.

-  You can then either choose to combine the sauce and spinach or serve everything individually.

Serves 6.

Nutrition Information

350 Calories
11 g of Fat
6 g of Carbs
34 g of Protein

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