Chicken Breasts Baked with Mushrooms

Name: Chicken Breasts Baked with Mushrooms
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 3 tbsp olive oil; 6 chicken breasts, with the skin on (it helps prevent shrinkage in cooking); 2 onions, skinned and finely sliced, or chopped if you prefer; 1–2 garlic cloves, skinned and finely chopped; 1 pint/570 ml chicken stock; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; ½ lb/225 g mushrooms, wiped, stalks trimmed, and sliced; Scant tbsp flour; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; ¼ pint/140 ml double cream

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Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

About

Chicken, in whatever form, is universally popular with children. Whenever one of ours is given the choice of what to make for lunch or supper, the decision is invariably chicken in some form or other. This baked chicken dish is simplicity itself to make, and how much garlic you include depends entirely on the general fondness for garlic in your family – with all of us, our liking for garlic amounts almost to addiction.

The ideal accompaniments for this baked chicken dish are either

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