Fricasseed Chicken with Dried Porcini Mushrooms and Marsala Wine

There are two ingredients at work in this dish, the dried porcini mushrooms and the Marsala wine, that invest the chicken with complex flavors and aromas of exceptional depth and earthiness.

In dried porcini we have not just a conveniently packaged alternative to the fresh mushroom, but an inimitable ingredient with its own separate repertory of applications. You are no longer using it as a mushroom, but as the aromatic forest essence of that mushroom. The difference between fresh a