Wine-Poached Chicken with Mushroom Sauce

A blend of wine, broth, and mushrooms adds delicious flavor to poached chicken, and then it's mixed with cream and reduced down to a full-flavored sauce to serve over top.

• Preparation Time: 5 mins
• Cooking Time: 30 mins
• Total Time: 35 mins
• Calories: 426 Calories

Ingredients

• salt to taste
• 2 (5 ounce) skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
• 8 small white mushrooms, quartered
• 1 teaspoon chopped fresh parsley, or to taste
• 0.5 cup heavy cream
• 0.5 cup dry white wine
• 0.33333334326744 cup chicken broth
• 0.125 teaspoon white pepper
• 0.5 teaspoon dried tarragon

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Combine chicken broth, wine, mushrooms, tarragon, and pepper in a frying pan. Add chicken and bring to a boil over high heat. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, until chicken is no longer pink in the middle and the juices run clear, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove chicken to a plate and keep warm.

Step 2

Add cream to the cooking liquid and mushrooms in the pan. Increase heat to high and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Cook until reduced to about 1/2 cup, 3 to 5 minutes. Season with salt.

Step 3

Pour mushroom sauce over chicken. Garnish with parsley.