Chicken with Fried Mushrooms

Name: Chicken with Fried Mushrooms
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Italian
Ingredients: 1 tsp finely chopped parsley (or coriander or other soft herb); 1 tsp finely chopped parsley (or coriander or other soft herb); 2 eggs, beaten; olive oil for frying; 4 boneless corn-fed organic chicken breasts, about 115 g each, skinned; 2 tbsp plain flour; 1 tbsp chopped parsley; 2-3 tbsp chicken stock or water; 2-3 tbsp chicken stock or water; 1 garlic clove, finely chopped; 55 g butter; salt and pepper to taste; salt and pepper to taste

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Complete Mushroom Book

By Antonio Carluccio

Published 2005

About

Chicken and veal are common in Italian cooking, and many cuts are beaten, as here, to make them thinner. This makes the cooking time so short that you could almost consider dishes of this nature as ‘fast food’. The egg coating here imparts a distinctive flavour and the mushrooms make it very special.

Ingredients

4 boneless corn-fed organic chicken breasts, about 115 g each, skinned
2 tbsp plain flour
1 tsp

Europe
Italy
Main course
Mediterranean

Method

Clean the mushrooms, and quarter them if large.

Melt the butter in a frying pan, then add the garlic. Fry for a few seconds.

Add the mushrooms and sauté for 8-io minutes. Add the stock or water, some salt and pepper, and the parsley.

Meanwhile, prepare the chicken breasts. Flatten them with a meat cleaver to obtain large escalopes 1cm thick. Dip them in the flour and coa