Baked Chicken With Sherry Sauce Recipes

ROASTED CHICKEN WITH GARLIC-SHERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• For brine, in a large saucepan, bring water and salt to a boil. Cook and stir until salt is dissolved. Remove from the heat; cool to room temperature., Place a large heavy-duty resealable plastic bag inside a second large resealable plastic bag; add chicken. Carefully pour cooled brine into bag. Squeeze out as much air as possible; seal bags and turn to coat. Refrigerate 1-2 hours, turning several times., Preheat oven to 400°. Drain and discard brine. Rinse chicken with cold water; pat dry. Sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon pepper. In a large ovenproof skillet, brown chicken in oil over medium heat. , Bake, uncovered, 20-25 minutes or until a thermometer reads 170°. Remove chicken and keep warm. Drain drippings, reserving 1 tablespoon., In the drippings, saute garlic for 1 minute. Add broth, sherry or additional broth and thyme. Bring to a boil; cook until liquid is reduced to 1 cup. Discard thyme. Stir in the butter, lemon juice and remaining pepper. Serve with chicken.

CHICKEN BREASTS IN SHERRY AND SOUR CREAM

Steps:

• Put chicken breasts and mushrooms in a casserole dish.
• Combine remaining ingredients and spoon over chicken.
• Cover with foil.
• Bake in a 350 degree oven for 1 1/2 hours.
• Serve with rice.

CHICKEN WITH SHERRY CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• Coat each chicken piece with bread crumbs. Refrigerate for at least 15 minutes.
• Heat oil and butter in the fry pan and lightly brown chicken on both sides. Transfer to a baking dish.
• Add sherry to the fry pan and boil briskly until reduced by half, scraping up brown bits stuck to bottom. Reduce heat, add cream and simmer for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
• Pour sherry sauce over breasts.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 20 minutes.

BAKED SHERRY CHICKEN

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350. In skillet, brown chicken slowly in butter on all sides. Remove from skillet and place in single layer in 11 x 7 baking dish. Slice mushrooms, chop onions.
• 2. Add mushrooms and onions to skillet, scraping the bottom of the pan, and stir well to mix. Add a little more butter if you'd like. Bring to a nice simmer.
• 3. Let it cook a little longer, stirring often, till everything looks beautiful.
• 4. Add soup, sherry, seasonings, and lemon slices. Blend thoroughly, bring to a simmer.
• 5. Pour over chicken in baking dish.
• 6. Bake (uncovered) at 350 for about an hour, or until chicken is tender.
• 7. Remove from oven when it looks so beautiful you can't stand it.
• 8. Serve with rice and a nice green vegetable.
• 9. The sauce is lemony and delicious, and it's great spooned over the rice.

BAKED CHICKEN BREASTS SUPREME

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350 degrees.
• In oven, heat butter and oil in 13 1/2x9x2 inch baking dish until butter is melted.
• Place chicken in baking dish, turning to coat with butter.
• Arrange chicken skin side up; bake uncovered 1 hour.
• Heat soup, cream and Sherry, stirring occasionally.
• Stir in tarragon leaves, Worcestershire sauce, chervil leaves, garlic powder and mushrooms.
• Remove chicken from oven; drain fat from dish.
• Pour soup mixture over chicken.
• Cover tightly; cook 15 to 20 minutes longer or until fork tender.

EASY CHICKEN WITH SHERRY MUSHROOM SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
• Melt butter in a glass baking dish.
• Season flour with salt and pepper.
• Wash chicken pieces and pat dry with paper towel.
• Dredge chicken pieces through flour to coat and place skin side down in the pan with the melted butter.
• Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes.
• Meanwhile, Whisk together soup and sherry until smooth; set aside.
• At the end of the half hour, turn chicken pieces over and pour in the sherry mushroom sauce.
• Bake an additional 30 minutes or until chicken is done.
• Can be served with noodles if you like.
• Note: for a lower calorie meal, I have used boneless skinless chicken breasts which I marinated in the sherry mushroom mixture overnight. Then I baked the chicken and sauce in a glass pan in a 350 degree oven for about 45 minutes. Do not overbake.

BAKED CHICKEN WITH APPLE SHERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• Sprinkle chicken breasts with 1/4 teaspoon of salt on both sides. Cover and refrigerate for 30 minutes. Remove from refrigerator and cut in half lenghtwise. Place the chicken pieces between two pieces of plastic wrap and pound chicken with meat mallet till 1/4 inch thick.
• Preheat oven to 200 degrees F.
• Mix the flour, cornstarch, 1 teaspoon of salt, black pepper, and sugar in shallow bowl. Place each piece of chicken into flour mixture to coat. Melt 2 Tbsp of butter in a skillet until foam disappears, and lay the chicken into the butter. Cook until golden brown on both sides. Remove chicken, and set aside on plate in oven to keep warm.
• Pour sherry into skillet and bring to a boil, Cook until the sherry is reduced to half its volume. Then stir in chicken broth, add the apple slices to the skillet. Cook, stiring occasionaly until the apple slices are soft and the sherry mixture is reduced to half. Stir in brown sugar, 1 Tsbp of butter, and the Marsala wine until the sugar has dissolved and the sauce is thick.
• Return the chicken to the sauce, together with any juice from the plate. Simmer for a few minutes on each side.
• Serve the chicken with the sauce and apple slices on top.