Quick Chicken Chasseur Recipes

CHICKEN CHASSEUR (HUNTER-STYLE CHICKEN)

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 375 degrees F.
• Season chicken pieces on both sides with salt and pepper. Heat a few tablespoons of clarified butter in a Dutch oven over high heat. Place chicken in skin side down and cook until golden brown. Turn the chicken over and brown the other side. Remove chicken to a baking sheet and bake in the oven until just cooked through, about 12 to 15 minutes.
• Remove all but 2 tablespoons of the fat from the pan. Add the mushrooms, season with salt and pepper, and saute until golden brown. Add the shallots and cook for 30 seconds. Remove the pan from the heat and add the Cognac and cook until completely reduced. Add the wine and cook until completely reduced. Add the stock and tomato and bring to a simmer. Cook until the sauce is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon ("nappe") and then swirl in the butter ("monter au beurre"). Once the butter is added, the sauce can not be further reduced because it will break. Season with salt and pepper and stir in the tarragon and chervil.
• Remove the chicken from the oven and let rest for 5 minutes. Remove the breastbone from the breast. Cut each breast into 2 even pieces on the bias. Cut the legs into 2 pieces at the joint and on the bias and remove the thighbones. Serve 1 leg piece and 1 breast piece. Make sure only 1 piece contains a bone. Serve on hot plates, napped with the sauce.

QUICK CHICKEN CHASSEUR

Steps:

• Heat a shallow saucepan and sizzle the bacon for about 2 mins until starting to brown. Throw in the chicken, then fry for 3-4 mins until it has changed colour. Turn up the heat and throw in the mushrooms. Cook for a few mins, stir in the flour, then cook until a paste forms.
• Tip in the tomatoes, stir, then crumble in the stock cube. Bubble everything for 10 mins, splash in the Worcestershire sauce, stir through the parsley, then serve with mash or boiled rice.

CHICKEN CHASSEUR

Steps:

• Season the chicken with salt and freshly ground black pepper then toss in the flour to coat.
• Heat a large frying pan until hot, add the oil and half the butter then fry the chicken pieces, skin side down, for 1-2 minutes until golden-brown. Turn the chicken and fry on the other side for another 1-2 minutes.
• Meanwhile, heat a frying pan until hot, add the remaining butter and fry the bacon and button mushrooms until they are golden-brown. Add the shallots and caster sugar and fry for 2-3 minutes until golden and caramelised.
• Add the wine and bring it to a simmer, stirring to deglaze the pan, then pour the bacon and mushroom mixture over the chicken. Add the stock, tomato purée and tarragon to the chicken and bring to the boil.
• Reduce the heat to a simmer and cook for 30-40 minutes or until the chicken is cooked through and the liquid slightly reduced.
• Meanwhile, for the mash, place the potatoes into a pan of salted water and bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 12-15 minutes until the potatoes are tender.
• Drain the potatoes and return them to the pan, then place the pan on the heat for one minute to steam off any excess moisture.
• Mash the potatoes well, then add the butter and milk, beating to form a smooth mash. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
• When the chicken is cooked, add the tomatoes and flat leaf parsley, check the seasoning then simmer for a further two minutes before serving.
• Serve two pieces of chicken per person with the sauce spooned over and a dollop of mash alongside.

EASY CHICKEN CHASSEUR

Steps:

• Place cornstarch in a large resealable plastic bag. Add the chicken, a few pieces at a time, and shake to coat. In a large nonstick skillet coated with cooking spray, brown chicken in 2 teaspoons oil. Remove and set aside., In the same skillet, saute mushrooms and onions in remaining oil until tender. Add the broth, sherry and seasonings; bring to a boil. Carefully return chicken to the pan; simmer, uncovered, for 4-6 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink. Stir in tomatoes; heat through. Serve with rice if desired.,

BONELESS CHICKEN CHASSEUR

Steps:

• Place the mushrooms in a small pot and cover with the stock. Bring to a low simmer and reconstitute the mushrooms.
• Bring a medium pot of salted water to boil.
• Sprinkle the chicken with salt and pepper and then dredge in some flour. Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the chicken and brown on both sides, then transfer to a plate. Melt 4 tablespoons of the butter into the oil and add the carrots, garlic, shallots and some salt and pepper, and cook partially covered to soften the vegetables, 5 minutes. Deglaze the pan with the brandy then stir in the wine. Remove the mushrooms from the stock and chop. Add the mushrooms to the pan along with most of the soaking liquid; discard the last few spoonfuls where grit may have settled. Add the tomatoes and tarragon, and then slide the chicken back in and simmer to thicken a bit, 10 minutes.
• Cook the noodles until al dente in salted water, then drain the noodles and add the remaining 1 tablespoon butter, and toss to coat. Serve the chicken pieces with the buttered egg noodles and a few spoonfuls of the sauce alongside.

CHICKEN CHASSEUR

Steps:

• Heat the oil to medium in a large skillet, or buffet casserole (it has to be able to hold the liquid and take a lid).
• Sauté the chicken until golden brown on both sides.
• Remove to a plate or bowl and reserve.
• Sauté the shallots until soft but not brown.
• Add the mushrooms, put on the lid, and cook for 3 minutes.
• Add the flour and cook, stirring, for 1 minute.
• Add the white wine, stirring as you do, then the brandy, tomato paste, and chicken stock.
• Bring to a simmer, stirring; then reduce the heat.
• Add the tarragon.
• Put the chicken and juices back into the pan.
• Cover and simmer for 45 to 60 minutes, or until the chicken is tender.
• Serve directly from the buffet casserole, or remove to a platter.
• If your parsley is not bitter tasting, sprinkle with chopped parsley.

ONE-POT CHICKEN CHASSEUR

Steps:

• Heat 1 tsp olive oil and half of the 25g butter in a large lidded casserole.
• Season 4 chicken legs, then fry for about 5 mins on each side until golden brown. Remove and set aside.
• Melt the remaining butter in the pan. Add 1 chopped onion, then fry for about 5 mins until soft.
• Add 2 crushed garlic cloves, cook for about 1 min, add 200g small button or chestnut mushrooms, cook for 2 mins, then add 225ml red wine.
• Stir in 2 tbsp tomato purée, let the liquid bubble and reduce for about 5 mins, then stir in 2 thyme sprigs and pour over 500ml chicken stock.
• Slip the chicken legs back into the pan, then cover and simmer on a low heat for about 1 hr until the chicken is very tender.
• Remove the chicken legs from the pan and keep warm. Rapidly boil down the sauce for 10 mins or so until it is syrupy and the flavour has concentrated.
• Put the chicken legs back into the sauce and serve.