Chicken Shortcake Recipes

CHICKEN SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt, pepper, thyme, parsley and sage in bowl. Add milk and oil; mix just until combined.
• Transfer dough to sprayed cookie sheet; pat into a 7 inch circle about 1/2 inch thick. Bake at 400 for 15-20 minutes, or until golden brown.
• Meanwhile in skillet cook mushrooms and onion, stirring frequently 4-5 minutes, until vegetables are golden and cooked through.
• In small bowl, with whisk, combine broth, lemon juice and cornstarch, blending to dissolve cornstarch; stir into vegetable mixture.
• Reduce heat to low and simmer stirring constantly for 1 minute, until slightly thickened.
• Stir in chicken, sour cream, salt and pepper; simmer, stirring constantly, 2 minutes longer.
• Just before serving cut shortcake into 4 pieces. Top with chicken mixture.

DIXIE CHICKEN SHORTCAKE

Steps:

• Make the cornbread:.
• Preheat oven to 450F and grease an 8" square pan.
• Sift dry ingredients together.
• Mix egg and buttermilk together and add to dry ingredients.
• Add melted butter and pour into prepared pan.
• Bake for approximately 18 minutes.
• Remove skin and bones from cooked chicken.
• Cut meat into small pieces.
• Make a sauce using chicken stock and flour; add chicken.
• Saute mushrooms in butter, season and add to chicken and sauce mixture; heat thoroughly.
• Cut cornbread into 8 squares; split squares.
• Place lower half of cornbread on a plate; cover with some of the chicken mixture.
• Replace the top half and cover with more of the chicken mixture.
• Serve immediately.

CHICKEN AND DILL FRICASSéE WITH SOUR CREAM SHORTCAKES

Steps:

• Make the shortcake biscuits
• Into a bowl sift together the flour, the baking powder, the baking soda, the salt, and the sugar. add the dill and the shortening, and blend the mixture until it resembles meal. Stir in the sour cream and the milk and stir the mixture until it just forms a soft but sticky dough. On a floured surface roll or pat out the dough 1/2 inch thick and with a 3 1/2-inch cookie cutter cut out 6 rounds. Bake the rounds on an ungreased baking sheet in the middle of a preheated 425°F. oven for 15 to 17 minutes, or until they are golden.
• Make the fricassee
• In a skillet cook the mushrooms in 1 tablespoon of the butter over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until they give off their liquid and reserve the mixture. In a large saucepan melt the remaining 3 tablespoons butter over moderate heat and in it cook the shallot until it is softened. Add the flour and cook the roux, stirring, for 5 minutes. Add the broth in a stream, stirring, and cook the mixture, stirring, for 5 minutes. Add the cream and boil the mixture, stirring occasionally, for 10 minutes. Add the peas, the lemon juice, the salt, the dill, the chicken, the ham, the reserved mushroom mixture, and pepper to taste and simmer the mixture for 10 minutes, or until the chicken is heated through.
• Arrange a biscuit, heated and split, on each of the 6 dinner plates, spoon some of the fricassee over the bottom half, and cover it with the top half of the biscuit.