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Chicken Pasta With Cream and Mushroom Sauce




Chicken Pasta with cream and mushroom sauce has a unique taste of double cream, mushroom and also sherry. On this recipe, you can have your own desire on choosing what kind of pasta that you like. I would like to recommend you to use bow tie shape pasta. About the taste, I love the creamy taste of it plus with all the combination of herbs and spices. Hope you will like this recipe. Thank you :-)



Ingredients



- 3 parts chicken breasts

- 1 small onion

- 1 number of carrot that had been roughly chopped

- 1 bouquet garni

- A few black peppercorns

- 300ml or ½ pint of water

- 2 tablespoons of dry sherry (optional)

- 50g or 2oz of butter

- 250g or 8oz of sliced button mushrooms

- 2 cloves of crushed garlic

- 1 teaspoons of chopped rosemary

- 1 teaspoon of virgin olive oil

- 375g or 12oz of dried pasta (any shape but recommended is bows shape pasta)

- 1 ½ tablespoon of plain flour

- 150ml or ¼ pint of double cream

- salt and pepper

- rosemary sprigs to garnish



Methods



- Put the chicken in the saucepan with the onion, carrot, bouquet garni and peppercorn.

- Pour in the sherry in the water and put inside the saucepan and simmer it until boiled.

- After boiled, lower the heat, cover and poached the chicken for about 20 minutes until just tender.

- On separate pan, melt the butter and add the mushrooms, garlic, rosemary, salt and pepper and sauté the ingredients in a medium heat.

- Keep sautéing the ingredients for about 5 minutes and until the juice run clear.

- Remove from the heat and use a slotted spoon, transfer the mushrooms to a bowl.

- Bring a large pan of water to the boil and add the oil and a pinch of salt.

- Put the pasta inside the water and let it cooked for about 8 to 12 minutes until Al dente.

- Meanwhile, lift the chicken out of the poaching liquid, then strain the liquid into a jug.

- Cut the chicken into strips and discarding any skin and bones.

- Return the mushroom cooking liquid to the heat, sprinkle in the flour and cook for 1-2 minutes by stirring it.

- Add the chicken poaching liquid a little at a time and beating well after each addition.

- Bring to the boil, stirring.

- Lower the heat and put the cream and keep stirring.

- Add the chicken, mushroom, salt and pepper.

- Mix well, and then simmer for 5 minutes until thicken. Keep stirring.

- Drain the pasta and put it in the serving bowl.

- Pour the sauce and toss to mix with the pasta.

- Serve hot and garnish with rosemary.



Info



- Use white button mushrooms for this sauce as dark ones will spoil the appearance of the pasta.

- Serves 4 people





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