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Chicken Marsala Recipe
by Terri Jordan

Chicken Marsala

This recipe has a creamy mushroom sauce instead of a brothy sauce. I usually double and triple the recipe and make extra sauce to accompany a side of pasta or potatoes.

Rating: 4.3/5
Avg. 4.3/5 4 votes
  Italy Italian
  Servings: 4

Ingredients

  • 1-3/4 cups chicken broth (14 fl oz)
  • 2 TB finely chopped shallot
  • 5 TB unsalted butter
  • 10 oz mushrooms, trimmed and thinly sliced
  • 1-1/2 tsp finely chopped fresh sage
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 1/8 tsp black pepper
  • 1 cup all purpose flour
  • 4 skinless bonless chicken breast halves (2 lb total)
  • 2 TB extra virgin oil oil
  • 1/2 cup plus 2 TB (sweet) Marsala wine
  • 2/3 cup heavy cream
  • 1 tsp fresh lemon juice

Directions

  1. Put oven rack in middle position and preheat to 200 degrees
  2. Bring broth to a boil in a 2 qrt saucepan over high heat, then boil uncovered, until reduced to about 3/4 cup, about 20 min.
  3. Cook shallots in 3 TB butter in an 8-10 inch heavy skillet over moderate heat, stirring until shallots begin to turn golden, about 1 minute. Add mushrooms, 1 tsp sage, salt and pepper. Cook, stirring occassionally until mushrooms begin to brown. 6-8 min. Remove from heat.
  4. Place flour in wide, shallow bowl. Gently pound chicken to a 1/4 " thick between 2 sheets of plastic wrap using the flat side of a meat pounder or rolling pin.
  5. Pat chicken dry and season with salt-pepper, then dredge in flour ... one piece at a time, shaking off excess. Transfer to sheets of wax paper, arranging chicken in 1 layer.
  6. Heat 1 TB each of oil and butter in a 10 inch heavy skillet over modertely high heat until foam subsides, then saute' half of chicken, turning over once, until golden and just cooked through (about 4 min. total)
  7. Transfer cooked chicken into a large heatproof platter, arranging in 1 layer. Place platter in oven to keep warm.
  8. Wipe out skillet with paper towels and cook remaining chicken in same manner, then transfer to oven (keeping 1 layer)
  9. Add 1/2 cup Marsala wine to skillet and boil over high heat stirring and scraping up brown bits (about 30 sec.) Add chicken broth, cream and mushrooms...simmer, stir until sauce thickens (6-8 min) Add lemon juice and 2 TB of wine and 1/2 tsp sage.
  10. Pour sauce over chicken and serve.