Name: Poulet Vallée d’Auge (Chicken with cream, apples and mushrooms)
Yield: For 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 75 g butter; A small glass of Calvados (optional); 6 chicken pieces (breasts, thighs or legs, or a mix of pieces); 2 onions, finely chopped; 500 ml double cream or crème fraîche; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 500 g button mushrooms, finely sliced; Salt and freshly ground black pepper; 500 ml dry cider

Preparation info

For
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Nobody Does it Better

By Trish Deseine

Published 2007

About

The Vallée d’Auge in Normandy is a green, lush region famous for its cream, cheese and apples. This is the type of rich, pre-nouvelle cuisine dish that gives French cooking a bad name but that everyone secretly adores: cream, wine, chicken and mushrooms must be the most has-been but heavenly combo in all of French cuisine.

It is the first recipe I ever cooked for a dinner party, from the first cookery book I owned, French Cooking by El