Poulet Sauté à la Bretonne (Chicken with Leek, Mushrooms, Cream and Sauce Suprême)
Origin: Paris, France
Source: Auguste Escoffier, 1907
Ingredients
- 1 chicken
- butter
- 100 grammes white of leek
- half an onion
- 100 grammes raw mushrooms
- 1 decilitre cream
- 1 decilitre sauce Suprême
Instructions
- Stew 100 grammes of sliced white of leek and half a sliced onion in butter beforehand.
- Brown the chicken pieces in butter without letting them colour and add the leek and onion.
- Cover and finish the cooking in the oven.
- About 5 minutes before the chicken is quite done, add 100 grammes of raw mushrooms, sliced and sautéed in butter.
- Dish up the chicken.
- Add a decilitre of cream and a decilitre of sauce Suprême to the vegetables, reduce by half, and pour sauce and vegetables over the chicken.