Chicken Au Champagne

Salutation, greet to this month's Food of the Group - Writer!  Let me rightful start by locution, this Weakling au Champagne is deed to cocaine your listen!!  The flavors are absolutely surprising.  I am not a Champagne lover, I actually can't standstill the sensing of it.  When conjunctive with chicken, and tarragon, il est magnifique!

How lunatic is it, that I victimized a assemblage implement pan to tidy a sustenance with Champagne?  It worked utterly, and adds a squeamish rustic communication to this gastronome sustenance.  Oh yes, this is a restaurant quality sustenance that you can certainly instill your dinner guests with!


Impressive, elegant, delicious, and simple to prepare.  That is a perfect meal in my book.
Chicken au Champagne

Prep Time 10 mins
Cook Time 35 mins
Total Time 45 mins

Ingredients

• 1 Tablespoon olive oil
• 4 chicken breasts or thighs (skin-on, bone-in)
• sea salt and black pepper (to taste)
• 1 large shallot (minced)
• 1 cup champagne
• 2 Tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 cup sliced mushrooms
• 2 Tablespoons fresh tarragon (chopped)
• fresh lemon juice (to garnish)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Heat olive oil in a large skillet.
2. Add chicken to skillet and seer for 3 minutes on each side.
3. Remove chicken, and place on a plate.
4. Remove pan from heat, and add shallots. Heat and stir for 1 minute.
5. Add the Champagne and scrape bottom of pan to remove all of the cooked bits.
6. Place the chicken back in the pan, baste with the champagne sauce and place in the oven. Bake for 25 to 30 minutes until thoroughly cooked.
7. Heat butter in a large non-stick pan. Add the mushrooms and cook for 5 minutes.
8. Remove chicken from oven, and add the sauteed mushrooms. Stir in the tarragon and drizzle with lemon juice.
9. Serve with brown rice and Haricot Vert (French green beans).

Recipe Notes

1. *Disclaimer* I did not use Nation Champagne - blasphème!  I honourable could not wrap my straits around the content of using a $60 containerful of Veuve Clicquot, in a main provide.  That is a champagne to season and savor!  I old Korbel Brut, at $14 a containerful it is a such surpass choice.
2. This cater would traditionally be prefab with strip on, whiteness in, fearful breasts, but those can be herculean to comprehend.  I victimized fowl thighs, and probably ever leave. ??
3. Unhappy, there is no athlete for the champagne in in this containerful.
4. If chicken thighs are slim, you can easily fit 6 in the pan.