Champagne Chicken Recipes

Steps:

• Lightly dust chicken breasts with flour and a little salt and pepper.
• In a large skillet, lightly brown chicken breasts to a nice golden brown in olive oil. Once browned on both sides, add mushrooms and champagne. Cook over medium heat, champagne should boil a little, for approximately 1/2 hour. When chicken is tender, transfer chicken to a platter.
• Pour cream into skillet. Simmer about 5 minutes, until slightly thickened. Pour sauce over chicken breasts. Serve.

Steps:

• Pound chicken breasts to even thickness. Sprinkle with 1/2T lemon juice and pepper to your liking.
• Melt 2T butter and olive oil. Saute chicken. About 2 minute on each side until nicely browned. Remove from pan.
• In the same pan, melt 2T butter and saute shallots until translucent. Add garlic, scraping up brown bits from bottom of pan.
• Pur in chicken stock, champagne and remainder lemon juice. Bring to a boil and reduce to thin glaze. Add cream and boil for 6 minute until thick.
• Return chicken to pan and heat through. Sprinkle with chopped chives.
• Serve with white rice, wild rice or spinach fettecini.

Steps:

• Grill, bake or pan-sear chicken breasts until no longer pink in center.
• In a small saucepan add champagne, brown sugar, honey, Dijon and tarragon.
• Over medium heat, stir mixture often until a glaze forms, about 4 minutes.
• Return chicken to pan and turn chicken several times to glaze.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F.
• Place the slices of prosciutto on a lightly greased baking sheet. Bake until the prosciutto slices are almost completely crisp, about 6 to 8 minutes. The slices will crisp up even more as they cool. Reserve for garnish.
• In a medium saucepan, bring the chicken stock to a boil. Reduce heat to a simmer. Blanch the asparagus in the chicken stock for 2 minutes. Remove the asparagus with a slotted spoon. Set the asparagus aside and keep the chicken stock at a low simmer.
• In another medium saucepan, melt 1 tablespoon of the butter. Add the shallot and cook until tender, about 3 minutes. Add the Arborio rice and stir to coat in the butter. Continue toasting the rice, stirring constantly, for about 3 minutes more. Add the Champagne and simmer until the liquid has almost evaporated, about 3 minutes. Add 1/2 cup of the simmering broth and stir until almost completely absorbed, about 2 minutes. Continue cooking the rice, adding the broth 1/2 cup at a time, stirring constantly and allowing each addition of broth to absorb before adding the next, until the rice is tender but still firm to the bite and the mixture is creamy, about 20 minutes total. Remove from the heat. Gently stir in the asparagus, remaining butter, Parmesan, salt, and pepper. Spoon the risotto into serving dishes and garnish by breaking the crisp prosciutto into smaller pieces over the top of the risotto. Serve immediately.

Steps:

• In a large straight sided frying pan melt butter over medium-high heat. Add shallots and saute until soft, about 2 minutes.
• Add Champagne, parsley and lemon juice to pan. Bring to a boil then reduce heat to a simmer.
• Slide chicken into Champagne mixture and poach 15 minutes, turning once. (Use an instant-read thermometer to be sure the internal temperature is 165 degrees F.) Remove chicken with a slotted spoon to a plate; set aside.
• Ladle 1/2 cup of poaching liquid into a small pot over medium heat. Add cream and bring to just under a boil. Reduce heat and simmer. Whisk in white sauce mix. Simmer 1 minute, stirring constantly.
• To serve chicken, spoon sauce over top and garnish with parsley and grape salad.
• Combine all ingredients in medium bowl; mix well. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper Use as garnish for poached chicken.

Steps:

• Whisk together the flour, salt, pepper, and grated Parmesan.
• Rinse the chicken pieces in water. Dredge them thoroughly in the flour mixture, until well coated.
• Heat olive oil and 2 tablespoons of the butter in a large skillet on medium high heat.
• Add half of the chicken pieces, do not crowd the pan.
• Brown well on each side, about 3 minutes per side. Remove the chicken from the pan and reserve to a plate. Cook the other breasts in the same manner, remove from pan. Cover with aluminum foil and keep warm in the oven while you prepare the sauce.
• Add the champagne and mushrooms to the pan.
• Use a spatula to scrape up the browned bits.
• Reduce the sauce by half.
• Whisk in cream, kosher salt, black pepper, red pepper flakes and tarragon.
• Heat until sauce thickens to a creamy consistency.
• Serve chicken and sauce over angel hair pasta.

Steps:

• Combine the mayonnaise, sugar, Champagne, and vinegar. Whisk together until blended.
• Combine the salad dressing (above) , chicken, apples, pears in a bowl, and mix well. Serve over lettuce. Sprinkle with feta cheese.

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Heat a large, heavy-bottomed Dutch oven over medium-high heat. When hot, add the oil. Season the chicken on both sides with 2 teaspoons salt and 1 teaspoon pepper. Working in batches so as to not crowd the pot, sear the chicken, skin side down, until golden brown, about 6 minutes per batch. Brown briefly on the second side, then transfer the browned chicken to a plate.
• Add the garlic to the pot and cook, stirring, until lightly golden, 1 to 2 minutes. Add the lemon juice, Champagne, broth, and thyme, and return the chicken to the pot, nestling the pieces down into the liquid. Make sure some of the garlic is sitting on top of the chicken. Bring the liquid to a boil, cover the pot, and place in the oven. Cook, stirring once midway to ensure even cooking, until the chicken is falling-off-the-bone tender, about 1 hour and 15 minutes.
• Transfer the chicken and some of the garlic to a platter, and cover to keep warm. Remove and discard the thyme sprigs.
• In a medium bowl, mash the flour and butter together to form a smooth paste. Slowly whisk 1/2 cup of the hot juices from the pot into the paste until smooth, then add this mixture to the pot along with 2 tablespoons of the parsley, and whisk to combine. Don't worry if some of the garlic cloves get smashed -- they will help to thicken and enrich the sauce. Cover and cook over medium heat until the gravy has thickened, 10 to 20 minutes longer. Season the sauce with 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper, or more to taste. Serve the chicken with the gravy spooned over the top and sprinkled with the remaining 1 tablespoon parsley.

Steps:

• Heat olive oil in a heavy skillet over medium-high heat and cook onions until soft and translucent, about 5 minutes. Add chicken and carrots and cook until chicken is browned on all sides and carrots are tender, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Pour in champagne and simmer until alcohol has evaporated, 3 to 5 minutes. Add cream and chicken base and simmer until sauce has thickened, 10 to 15 minutes.

Steps:

• In a shallow bowl/pie plate, stir together the first 3 ingredients.
• Dredge chicken in flour mixture; place on a wire rack; let stand 15 minutes.
• Dredge chicken in flour again; return to rack.
• Melt butter with olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat.
• Cook chicken, in batches, 5 minutes on each side or until golden brown; remove chicken to a plate.
• Add shallots to the skillet; cook, stirring often, 2 minutes or until golden brown.
• Add in mushrooms and garlic; cook, stirring often, 10 minutes or until mushrooms are tender.
• Stir in Champagne and thyme; bring to a boil; stirring to loosen browned bits from the bottom of the pan.
• Decrease heat, and return chicken to skillet; cover and simmer 10 minutes or until done.
• Transfer chicken to a serving platter; stir cream into mushroom mixture; cook 5-6 minutes or until thickened; adjust seasoning with salt/pepper to taste.
• Serve sauce immediately over chicken.