Breast Of Chicken Queen Elizabeth Recipes

Steps:

• Mix the marinade ingredients together in a shallow dish. Add the chicken and turn to coat thoroughly. Cover and refrigerate for 2-3 hours.
• To make dressing, place creme fraiche, mayonnaise, lime juice and zest in a bowl. Peel and grate the ginger, then twist in a piece of muslin, or press through a sieve to extract the juice. Add 2 tsp of the juice to the dressing. Stir, cover and chill to allow the flavors to develop.
• Scrape marinade from the chicken and pat dry with kitchen paper. Season the chicken with salt, pepper and nutmeg, and place in a roasting pan. Drizzle over olive oil.
• Roast in oven at 375 degrees F for 25 minutes, baste occasionally until the chicken is cooked through. Leave to cool completely, then cut into bite-sized pieces.
• Combine the chicken and dressing, adjust the seasoning, and refrigerate. Serve with a pasta salad, lime quarters and chopped flat leaf parsley.

Steps:

• Pound flat each breast between 2 sheets of plastic wrap. Top each with ham and chicken. Moisten edges with egg to hold together. Roll breasts in flour and shake off excess.
• Melt butter in shallow pan. Saute fillets for 10-12 minutes. Turn and continue to sauté for 5 minutes on each side. Remove and keep warm in oven. To butter in pan, add shallots, mushrooms and wine. Cook until reduced by half. Add cream and cook until fairly thick. Seaon and pour over chicken.

Steps:

• Heat the butter and sunflower oil in a wide, flameproof casserole or skillet and quickly fry the chicken breast until golden brown, turning once.
• Remove chicken breasts and add the chopped shallots to the pan and fry gently until softened and lightly browned - Once Shallots are browned return chicken to the pan.
• Add the chicken stock and cider vinegar to the pan and bring to a boil, then cover, and simmer gently for 10-12 minutes, stirring occasionally.
• Transfer the chicken to a serving dish.
• Add grapes, cream and fresh nutmeg to the pan, heat through, and season with salt and pepper (add a little cornstarch to thicken the sauce, if desired).
• Pour the sauce over the chicken and serve.

Steps:

• Saute chicken in butter in skillet, until lightly browned. Reserve juice in pan.
• Place chicken in a covered casserole. Preheat oven to 350.
• Combine remaining ingredients and pan juice in blender; blend and pour over chicken.
• Bake for 1 hour.
• Serve over rice.

Steps:

• Butterfly and stuff chicken breasts:
• If tenders are attached to undersides of breast halves, remove white tendons from tenders with a small sharp knife. Working with 1 at a time, butterfly breast halves: Lay each breast half, skinned side up, lengthwise on a cutting board. Holding a sharp knife parallel to work surface and beginning on a long side, cut breast almost in half horizontally (not all the way through), then open it like a book.
• Cover opened breast halves with a piece of plastic wrap and gently pound each to an even 1/2-inch thickness with a meat pounder or rolling pin. Remove plastic wrap and cover each opened breast half with 1 slice of ham and 1 slice of cheese, tucking in any protruding ends. Brush edge of chicken with some egg, reserving remainder, then fold each breast in half to enclose ham and cheese.
• Cook chicken and make sauce:
• Pat chicken dry and sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Heat 2 tablespoons butter in a 12-inch heavy skillet over moderately high heat until foam subsides. While butter is heating, quickly brush more egg onto seam of each breast again, then dredge breasts in flour, shaking off excess. Sauté chicken, turning over once, until golden and cooked through, about 8 minutes total. Transfer to a plate and keep warm, loosely covered with foil.
• Add remaining tablespoon butter to skillet, then sauté mushrooms and shallot, stirring, 1 minute. Add wine and deglaze skillet by boiling, stirring and scraping up brown bits, until wine is reduced by about half, 1 to 2 minutes. Add tomatoes and cook, stirring occasionally, until they begin to soften, 3 to 4 minutes. Add cream and simmer, stirring occasionally, until reduced by about half, about 6 minutes. Stir in any chicken juices accumulated on plate and season sauce with salt and pepper.
• Serve chicken topped with sauce.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• Pound chicken until flat.
• Mix cream cheese, butter, and all the herbs in a medium bowl. Flatten the chicken and spread the cream cheese mixture on top of chicken.
• breast. Place tomatoes on top and roll like to stuff. Place in pan and top with white wine.
• Bake at 350 until done, about 30-35 minutes.
• If lazy, just add chicken and spread on top, pour wine and add the tomatoes.

Steps:

• Butterfly the breasts, spread open, and pound to 1/2-inch thickness.Top each breast with slice ham and slice cheese, tucking in any protruding ends.
• Brush the edges of each breast with egg, fold in half and seal in the ham and cheese. (save remaining egg).
• Pat the outside of the chicken dry. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Heat 2 Tbsp butter in skillet over med-high until the foam subsides. Meanwhile, brush more egg onto the seam of each breast. then dredge in flour, shaking off the excess.
• Saute chicken, turning once, until golden and cooked through, about 4 minutes each side. Remove from skillet, cover loosely with foil to keep warm.
• Add remaining Tbsp butter to skillet and saute mushrooms and shallot, stirring, for 1 minute. Add wine to deglaze the pan. And cook till reduced by half, about 1-2 minutes.
• Add tomatoes and cook, stirring occasionally, until they begin to soften, about 3-4 minutes. Add cream and simmer, stirring occasionallt, until reduced by half, about 6 minutes.
• Stir in any juices that have accumulated on the chicken plate, and season with salt and pepper.
• Serve chicken topped with sauce, garnish with chopped flat-leaf parsley, if desired.