Chicken en croûte

Name: Chicken en croûte
Prep time: 1 h
Cook time: 1 h 30 min
Total time: 3 h 10 min
Yield: Serves 4
Ingredients: 30 g (1 oz) unsalted butter; 1 clove garlic, finely chopped; 4 skinless chicken breast fillets; 1 bay leaf; 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar; oil, for cooking; 1 French shallot, finely chopped; 250 g (8 oz) cup or flat mushrooms, finely chopped; 100 ml (3¼ oz) Madeira or sherry; 400 g (12¾ oz) block puff pastry; 500 ml (16 fl oz) chicken or beef stock; 4 thin rashers smoked back bacon or pancetta, rind removed; 1 egg, lightly beaten; 2 carrots, finely chopped; 4 chicken wings, roughly chopped; 1 onion, finely chopped; 1 mushroom, finely chopped; 1 celery stick, finely chopped

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Complex
Ready in
3 hr 30

Appears in

Chicken

By Le Cordon Bleu

Published 1997

About

Succulent chicken breasts, married with mushrooms and bacon and encased in crisp plaited pastry. This dish requires a little patience in the making, but the results are spectacular.

Ingredients

oil, for cooking
4 skinless chicken breast fillets
30 g (1 oz)

Main course
Pie

Method

Heat about 3 tablespoons oil in a frying pan and fry the chicken for 1 minute on each side to seal. Remove from the pan and set aside.
Heat the butter in a medium-sized saucepan, add the shallot and garlic, cover with greaseproof paper and a lid and cook very gently