Wine Poached Chicken With Creamy Basil/Pine Nut Sauce
Ready In: 30 mins
Serves: 2-4
Ingredients
Sauce
- 1 cup mayonnaise
- 1 tablespoon spicy mustard
- 1 garlic clove
- 2 -4 tablespoons lemon juice (or to taste)
- 1 cup fresh basil leaf
- 1⁄4 cup pine nuts
- freshly ground salt & pepper
Chicken
- 1 -2 cup white wine
- 2 boneless chicken breasts
Beans
- 2 -4 cups trimmed green beans
- 3 -5 pine nuts
- 1 thinly sliced red onion
Directions
- Sauce: In a food processor, combine the mayonnaise, mustard and garlic.
- Add the lemon juice and basil leaves and whir until everything is green.
- Add the pine nuts and whir for just a second.
- Add pepper and salt to taste.
- Chicken: Poach the chicken breasts in the White Wine for approx 15 minutes.
- Once cooked, tear the chicken breasts into smaller pieces, and return to simmer in the white wine for another few minutes then remove from the mixture.
- Green beans: Cook until tender-crunchy (usually 10- 15 min.) After the chicken and green beans are cooked, combine with the sauce red onion.
- Serve with rice and sprinkle with the pine nuts.
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