Tarragon Chicken With Sour Cream Recipes

CHICKEN WITH TARRAGON SAUCE

Steps:

• Pound chicken breasts with a meat mallet to 1/2-in. thickness. Sprinkle chicken with 1/2 teaspoon salt and pepper., In a large skillet, heat butter and oil over medium heat. Add chicken; cook 4-5 minutes on each side or until no longer pink. Remove chicken from pan; keep warm., Add shallot to same pan; cook and stir over medium heat until tender. Add cream, stirring to loosen browned bits from pan. Increase heat to medium-high; cook until slightly thickened. Stir in 2 teaspoons tarragon, lemon juice and remaining salt. Serve with chicken. Sprinkle with remaining tarragon.

CHICKEN IN A TARRAGON SAUCE

Steps:

• Coat the chicken pieces in flour.
• Heat the oil in a large saute pan. Brown chicken on all sides in the oil, and remove from pan.
• To the oil remaining in the pan, add the onion. Fry lightly for 2 minutes, then add the garlic. Deglaze pan by stirring in the wine, which should lift off the residue of the flour from the bottom of the pan. Add the tarragon, and salt and pepper to taste. Return the chicken to the pan. Cook over low heat for about 45 minutes, or until the chicken is well done.
• When ready to serve, thicken the sauce with a cornstarch and water mixture; often this is not necessary as the initial flour coating thickens it naturally. Stir in the sour cream.

CREAMY MUSTARD AND TARRAGON CHICKEN

Steps:

• Place the flour in a shallow dish and season lightly with salt and pepper. Heat the olive oil and butter in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Season the chicken breasts with salt and pepper and dredge each in the flour.
• Cook the chicken in the hot oil and butter until golden, about 3 minutes. Flip chicken and brown on the other side, 3 additional minutes. Remove chicken from skillet and tent with foil.
• Reduce heat to medium. Stir the red onion into the oil and butter that remains in the skillet. Cook until softened, 2 to 3 minutes. Pour the chicken broth into the pan, and simmer while scraping the browned bits of food off of the bottom of the pan with a wooden spoon. Pour in the wine and bring back to a simmer. Cook the sauce until reduced by half, about 3 minutes. Return chicken to the pan along with any juices that have accumulated. Simmer chicken in the sauce until it is cooked through and no longer pink in the center, 3 to 4 minutes. Transfer chicken to a warmed platter.
• Whisk the mustard and sour cream into the sauce; stir in the tarragon. Spoon sauce over chicken to serve.

SAUTEED CHICKEN IN MUSTARD-CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• Sprinkle chicken breasts with salt and pepper. In a large skillet, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add chicken; saute until cooked through, 10 to 12 minutes, turning once. Transfer to a plate; keep warm.
• Pour wine into hot skillet; cook, stirring, until reduced by half, about 1 minute. Whisk in cream, mustard, and tarragon. Cook, whisking, until thickened, about 2 minutes.
• Pour any accumulated chicken juices from plate into sauce. Right before serving, drizzle cream sauce over chicken.

CREAMY CHICKEN WITH ASPARAGUS & TARRAGON

Steps:

• Cook the potatoes in a large pan of boiling water for 8-10 mins until tender, then drain and keep warm in the pan. Season the chicken with ground black pepper. Heat the oil in a large non-stick frying pan. Gently fry the chicken with the onion and garlic for 5 mins until both are lightly browned. Turn over the chicken once and stir the onion regularly.
• Pour over the stock, add 2 sprigs of tarragon and bring to a gentle simmer. Cook for 5 mins, then turn the chicken, add the asparagus and cook for 3 mins more. Chop the remaining tarragon.
• Stir the crème fraîche and tarragon into the pan with the chicken and heat through, stirring, for a few secs. Serve with the new potatoes.

CHICKEN BREASTS IN TARRAGON CREAM

Steps:

• 1. Browning the chicken. Season both sides of the chicken breasts with salt and pepper. Heat the oil in a large (10 to 12-inch) skillet over medium-high heat. Using tongs, carefully lower the chicken breasts into the pan and cook them for about 1 minute on each side just until hey begin to brown slightly. Transfer the still-raw chicken to a plate.
• 2. Poaching in cream. Reduce the heat under the skillet to low. Add the shallot and cook, stirring constantly, until softened but not browned, less than 1 minute. Add the vermouth and cook for 30 seconds, then add the cream and half the tarragon. Return the chicken breasts to the pan and adjust the heat so that the cream gently simmers. Cover and cook until the chicken is firm and just cooked through, 4 to 6 minutes. To check for doneness, cut into the thickest part of a breast with a paring knife ¿ there should be no sign of pink or translucence.
• 3. Finishing. Transfer the chicken breasts to a warmed serving platter or individual dinner plates. The sauce should be thick enough to lightly coat a spoon. If it is too thin, continue to simmer it for about 1 minute and it will thicken. Stir in the remaining tarragon and the lemon juice, then taste and season with additional salt and pepper if needed. Pour the sauce over the chicken and serve right away with buttered egg noodles.

TARRAGON CHICKEN TRIEST

Steps:

• Brown chicken breasts in butter, sprinkle Beau Monde and Tarragon, add mushrooms when turning the chicken. When chicken browned and mushrooms sauteed add the sherry.
• Allow to simmer for approximately 30 minutes. 15 minutes prior to serving remove chicken, stir sour cream into sauce and blend well. Replace the chicken into the sauce and allow to simmer. (I usually put it in the oven at 325°F at this point).
• Prior to serving garnish with the green onions. This is really good served with brown or wild rice.

RACH'S CHICKEN WITH TARRAGON CREAM SAUCE, GREEN BEANS + RICE PILAF

Steps:

• For the rice, in saucepot over medium heat, melt butter, brown the pasta and pine nuts, add rice and stir a minute more
• Season the rice with salt and pepper, add stock, bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat to low, and cook 15 minutes
• Remove from heat, let stand 10 minutes, fluff with fork and serve
• For the beans, boil in salted water 3 to 4 minutes, place in ice water bath to shock, then drain and dry
• Heat a skillet over medium low heat with butter, melt, then add shallots, salt and white pepper and soften
• Add stock and cook at low boil until very tender
• Turn the heat off, add green beans and cover
• Reheat over medium flame when ready to serve
• For the chicken, heat about ¼ cup EVOO, 4 to 5 turns of the pan, in a large skillet over medium to medium-high heat
• Season the chicken with salt and pepper, then lightly brown on both sides, about 5 minutes, and remove to platter
• Add about 2 tablespoons EVOO, 2 turns of the pan, and the butter, melt and bubble, then add garlic and swirl a minute, grate in some lemon zest and nutmeg, season with salt and pepper, add a sprinkle of flour, and stir
• Add wine, stock, cream, and tarragon, thicken a bit, stir in mustard and slide chicken back in to cook through
• To serve, add lemon juice
• Serve chicken alongside the rice and green beans

TARRAGON CHICKEN WITH SOUR CREAM

Steps:

• Heat butter in large fry pan over medium high heat.
• Brown chicken pieces on all sides and remove from pan and keep warm.
• Add onion and garlic to pan and cook until tender.
• Stir in tomato paste and flour.
• Slowly add chicken stock and stir. Bring to a boil while stirring until mixture thickens.
• Return chicken to pan.
• Add salt, pepper and tarragon.
• Cover and simmer gently 45 minutes.
• Remove chicken to warm platter.
• Gradually add sour cream to sauce and heat gently.
• Pour sauce over chicken and sprinkle with Parmesan.
• Serve with rice.

CHICKEN WITH TARRAGON CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 200C/400F/Gas 6.
• In a roasting tin, brown the chicken breasts in a little oil. Season both sides, turn skin side up and pour over the honey.
• Roast until cooked through - about 20 minutes. Remove the chicken from the pan and keep warm while you make the sauce.
• Pour off any excess fat, add the wine and bring to the boil, scraping to make sure you include any of the juices from the chicken. Reduce until you're left with a couple of tablespoons of richly flavoured liquid.
• Add the stock and the sprigs of tarragon, bring to the boil and reduce by a third.
• Stir in the cream, bring to the boil and allow to reduce a little before removing the sprig of tarragon and adding the fresh chopped herb.
• Adjust the seasoning and serve spooned over the chicken.

CHICKEN WITH TARRAGON CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 400°F. Rinse chicken thoroughly inside and out. Pat dry. Sprinkle chicken inside with salt and pepper. Place tarragon sprigs in cavity. Rub butter all over outside of chicken. Place chicken in roasting pan. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Pour 1/2 cup water into roasting pan.
• Roast chicken until thermometer inserted into thickest part of thigh registers 175°F and juices run clear when thigh is pierced, basting occasionally with pan juices, about 1 hour. Transfer chicken to platter; cover with foil while making sauce.
• Transfer pan juices to medium saucepan. Freeze until fat rises to top, about 10 minutes. Spoon off fat; discard. Add vermouth to pan juices in saucepan. Boil until slightly reduced, about 3 minutes. Add cream and tarragon and boil until mixture thickens to sauce consistency, stirring occasionally, about 5 minutes. Season sauce with salt and pepper. Serve with chicken.