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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