Recipe Chicken in cream sauce

To prepare this dish

Ingredient list

Ingredients

3 bresse chicken breasts
QS fleur de sel
QS fine salt
1/4 liter chicken stock
3 pieces lemon peel
QS Thyme / bay leaf
120 g fresh shelled green peas
10 tender fresh spinach leaves
4 thin slices of fennel
100 g chanterelle mushrooms
1 ripe beefsteak tomato
400 g Cooking cream sour taste
QS ground white pepper

Elle & Vire products used

Cooking cream sour taste

The recipe,
step by step

1. 1

   Ingredients

   See ingredients above
2. 2

   Preparation

   • Clean the chanterelles and spinach leaves.
   • Lightly salt the chicken breasts and place in a heavy ovenproof dish along with the thyme, bay leaf and lemon peel. Coat with the cream, let stand at room temperature.
   • Meanwhile, slice the tomato thinly.
   • Lightly season the 4 slices of fennel with salt and pepper. Boil the peas until tender, then plunge into ice water.
3. 3

   Cooking

   • Begin cooking the chicken breasts over low heat until the cream begins to simmer.
   • Cover and place in a 200°C oven for 5 min.
   • Transfer the chicken to a rack.
   • Add the sliced tomato and the chicken stock to the dish.
   • Heat slightly, add the peas and adjust the seasoning.
   • Wilt the spinach leaves in a little butter and season to taste.
   • Sauté the chanterelles in butter, season to taste.
   • Slice the chicken and heat it for a few seconds in foaming butter.
4. 4

   Plating

   • Begin by placing the spinach and chanterelles on the plate and drizzling with some of the remaining cream.
   • Top with the thinly sliced chicken breast and fennel.
   • Garnish with Fleur de sel.

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Pierre Gagnaire

Pierre Gagnaire est un alchimiste du goût et un créateur culinaire de talent dont la cuisine ne cesse d'étonner les gourmets du monde entier. A soixante et trois an, le chef aux trois étoiles continue de prendre des risques à la création de chaque plat, dans les 14 restaurants qu'il possède et dirige comme un chef d'orchestre, à Paris, Londres, Tokyo, Hong-Kong et Las Vegas.