Elle & Vire Recipes
by Pierre Gagnaire

Recipe Chicken in cream sauce

For
4 persons
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To prepare this dish

Ingredient list
Ingredients
3 bresse chicken breasts
400 g Cooking Cream Sour Taste
1 ripe beefsteak tomato
100 g chanterelle mushrooms
4 thin slices of fennel
10 tender fresh spinach leaves
120 g fresh shelled green peas
QS Thyme / bay leaf
3 pieces lemon peel
1/4 liter chicken stock
QS fine salt
QS fleur de sel
QS ground white pepper
Elle & Vire products used

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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