Chicken Chasseur Recipe

Chicken Chasseur is a classic French casserole dish where chicken, mushrooms and shallots are cooked in a Chasseur sauce. Chasseur sauce on the other hand is a type of demi-glace sauce which contains fresh mushrooms, shallots, tomatoes, white wine and butter. This sauce was said to be created during the 1600s by Duke Philippe De Mornay the same person responsible for four more popular sauces: Mornay, Béchamel, Lyonnaise, and Porto.

Chasseur is a French word that means “hunter” and the dish is named liked such because this was a popular dish with bird hunters during those days. Wild game birds shot badly or tough meat birds were the primary meat choice where it was boiled for a very long time and cooked together with vegetables they…