Chicken Escalopes with Shaggy Ink Caps

Name: Chicken Escalopes with Shaggy Ink Caps
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: salt and pepper to taste; 400 g young shaggy ink cap mushrooms; 4 tbsp olive oil; 85 g butter; plain flour for dusting; 4 boneless chicken breasts, skin removed; salt and pepper to taste; juice of ½ lemon; 4 tbsp dill leaves; 75 ml medium sherry

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Mushroom Book

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2005

About

These fungi appeared on my lawn just in time for this book! You shouldn't use or drink alcohol when cooking or eating them as they may cause a reaction, so I have used a very small amount for flavour. The problem disappears in cooking.

Ingredients

400 g young shaggy ink cap mushrooms
4 boneless chicken breasts, skin removed
plain flour for dusting

Europe
Italy
Main course
Mediterranean

Method

Clean and trim the mushrooms.

Cut the chicken breasts into 4 pieces each, and beat them out between pieces of clingfilm until thin. Dust the pieces with flour and fry on each side in a pan in the hot butter and oil until brown. Remove the chicken and set aside. In the same pan, fry the mushrooms for a few minutes. Add the sherry and fry for a few minutes to evaporate the alcohol. Add th