Chicken Breasts W/Mushrooms & Caramelized Onions
"This simple dish goes together quickly and can create a truly elegant meal."
- Ready In:
- 40mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
2-4
ingredients
- 2 -4 boneless skinless chicken breasts (1 per person)
- 1 large onion (sliced)
- 8 -16 ounces fresh mushrooms (cleaned & sliced)
- 4 -8 ounces blue cheese (crumbled)
- seasoning salt
- pepper
- olive oil
- 1⁄2 cup red wine (optional)
directions
- Season chicken breasts with seasoned salt and pepper.
- Heat 2 tbsp olive oil in a skillet then add the breasts.
- Brown the breasts on medium heat on both sides, transfer to a baking dish and put into a 350°F oven to finish cooking.
- In the same skillet add another tbsp of oil and add the onions; sauté until translucent.
- Add a couple teaspoons of sugar and the red wine (optional) and sauté until the onions become caramelized.
- Set onions aside.
- Sauté the mushrooms in the skillet.
- Remove the breasts from the oven and spoon some of the caramelized onions atop each one, then spoon some sautéed mushrooms on each. Finally, sprinkle some blue cheese over the mushrooms and place under the broiler for a couple minutes until the cheese becomes slightly browned.
- Serve the breasts on a nest of angel hair pasta or bed of wild rice or couscous.
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Simple preparation with results that dazzle! We added some bacon and the crispy texture makes it great! We are going to add a bit of pear next time.
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I am blessed with a father who was born into a large Polish farm family, nearly everything they ate was homegrown or raised. Although the lure of town life pulled my father from the hinterlands he never gave up putting in a large garden each year, a tradition that he continues to this day (at 70+ years old).
His suburban garden is organic and shockingly bountiful turning good neighbors into thieves. Many of our summer afternoons are spent withh a glass of wine in hand, walking up and down the rows happily munching, admiring and deciding upon what will grace the dinner table that night. Along with potatoes in purples, golds and reds, the sweetest snap peas, and tomatoes of nearly every size and color, my father grows many varieties of hot peppers which he dries, crushes and combines into a blend worthy of the shelves at Penzey's - it's truly amazing and has sealed my love of hot spices.
My mother's Scot-Irish family left Chicago's Italian neighborhood as the depression loomed, opting for the kindler gentler midwest rural experience. It was in the country and the lack of proximity to grocery stores nor money to shop at them, that developed a household of creative female cooks. They were inclined toward southern ingredients and foods that would stretch a dollar; beans, potatoes, pork, greens, cornbreads, biscuits, soups & stews. The family matriarchs were also imprinted with influences from Chicago's Italian culture; great red sauces, southern Italian fare and no fear of seasonings. I have extracted a good deal of basic culinary appreciation from both parents. I forgive them the 60's decade when convenience foods dominated common sense, exposing us to canned meat products, processed cheese that could sit indefinitely on a grocery shelf and survive, fluffy white sandwich bread and foil packaged foodstuffs which accompanied the astronauts into space. All in all I'm happiest in the kitchen with fresh ingredients, willing tasters and new recipes to try.
