Creamy Mushroom Chicken

Creamy mushroom chicken is a delicious chicken dish, where fried chicken pieces and sliced button mushrooms is cooked in a creamy sauce made by all purpose cream, garlic, onion, chicken broth cube, soy sauce, parsley, salt and pepper. Using all purpose cream as the base, the combination of the rich and creamy flavour makes the creamy mushroom chicken dish a perfect ulam to your hot and steaming rice.

COOKING TIPS:

• If you want a creamier dish, you can simmer the chicken in fresh milk or any liquid milk instead of water. Just remember to lower the heat since we’re dealing with milk.
• Aside from enjoying this with rice, you can shred the chicken and use this as a pasta sauce.

Creamy Chicken Mushroom Recipe

Ingredients:

• 1 kilo chicken thighs (or any part)
• 1 cup mushrooms (canned)
• 250 mL (1 cup) all purpose cream
• 4 cloves garlic (minced)
• 1 medium onion (chopped)
• 1 piece chicken broth cube
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 1 cup water
• Oil (for searing)
• Chopped parsley (for garnishing)

Directions:

1. Wash and prepare the chicken thighs and then place them to a container. Season with salt and pepper and massage well. Do this also to the other side.
2. Heat some oil in a pan. Add the seasoned chicken (skin side first) and then sear for a few minutes. Flip to sear the other side. Sear until brown. Transfer them to a strainer or paper towel to drain excess oil. Set aside.
3. Reduce the oil from the pan. Add the garlic and onions. Saute for a few minutes until aromatic. Then, add the mushrooms (drained) and saute.
4. Add the seared chicken back to the pan. Add some soy sauce, chicken broth cube and water. Cover the pan and let it simmer for 15 to 20 minutes using medium heat. Flip the chicken halfway cooking to cook evenly.
5. After 15 minutes, turn the heat to low before pouring the all purpose cream.  Mix well. Cook for a few more minutes until the sauce becomes thicker and creamier. Turn the heat off.
6. Transfer the creamy chicken and mushrooms to a serving plate. Garnish with chopped parsley before serving (optional). Enjoy this with a big plate of hot steaming rice. Yum!

What are Mushrooms

Mushrooms are one of the coolest food items out there. While most of us think that mushrooms are a simple type of vegetable, they are actually a type of fungi (not the bad one). Economically, they are considered vegetables in the market. Did you know that a cup of cooked mushrooms has an average 30 calories? Also, it is rich in B-vitamins. Bet you can intensify the mushroom flavor on your dishes without having any trace of guilt!

Cooking Cream

If you’re a fan of dairy products, you already know what a cream is. If you are curious with the difference on why cream is used in dishes while the regular milk is not, then let me share you this information.

Focusing on cow’s milk, these milks vary with their fat content. This is why you can see some milk varieties are “low fat or lite”, which are the ones with reduced fat or low fat (including skim milk and evaporated milk) while the “regular milk” and “full cream milk” are the ones with its natural fat content. All purpose cream and other cooking cream has the highest fat content among the milk varieties. This characteristic gives that calming feeling when you have a bite of a creamy dish.

If you are about to cook a creamy dish, make sure to use the milk with the highest fat content to achieve that intense creaminess which will surely tickle your tastebuds.

Creamy Mushroom Chicken

Creamy dishes are my go-to food during the times I need to comfort myself. This usually happens after a long day of work and I want to reward myself of something special. There are a lot of creamy dishes out there but one of the easiest and creamiest ones is the chicken with mushrooms in a creamy sauce.

My love for the chicken and mushroom recipes started when I first tasted my mom’s cream of mushroom soup from scratch. The mushroom flavor is truly subtle yet delicate. If you want to appreciate the taste of the mushroom, you can grab the canned mushroom, add a piece to your mouth, suck it a bit before chewing slowly. Now, there is an easy to cook cream of mushroom soup powder available if you want a quick way to prepare cream of mushroom soup.

Whenever I think of savoury cream (cream not for desserts), I always think of chicken with mushroom cream sauce too. With the unique blend of the creaminess and the elusive flavor of the mushroom, it can turn a sauce an proximate one to partner with any meat, rice or pasta. One of my favorite versions of this is the creamy chicken mushroom.

While creamy dishes often look meticulously cooked, this creamy chicken dish will bring the 5-star restaurant at the comfort of your homes! If you wanna know how to make the creamy chicken mushroom, read and follow the quick steps below. Happy cooking!

Creamy Mushroom Chicken Calories

As per reputed sites like calorieking one serve of creamy mushroom chicken calories contains around 200 to 300 Calories. The way you are using other ingredients like all purpose cream or milk will affect the calories in your serve,

How to Cook Creamy Mushroom Chicken

Making the creamy chicken mushrooms is super easy. The whole process might take around less than an hour.

Start with choosing the chicken. You can pick any part that you like but for me, the chicken thighs are the most favorable ones (bonus if it’s boneless!) when it comes to juiciness and tenderness. Simply season them with salt and pepper and they are ready to be seared.

When searing, make sure to put the skin side first so that our chicken will end up crispy even when simmered in the creamy sauce for later. Searing adds flavor to the dish and helps lock up those natural meaty juices.

Saute your aromatics and mushrooms. You can use any mushrooms you like but the most convenient to use are the canned ones. For this recipe, I used the sliced button mushrooms. Take note that mushrooms adds only a subtle flavor. If you like it heightened, you can add more mushrooms.

To fully cook the chicken and to add a savoury hint to it, add the chicken back to the pan and then add the seasonings and water. Let it simmer for a few minutes and check from time to time is fork tender.

The last ingredient to add is the all purpose cream. Before adding the cream, you should lower the heat because milk burns fast (and we do not want a burnt taste!). What we want is for the chicken to ingest all of that creaminess slowly and not in a rush.  While this recipe settles with the creamy nature of the dish, you can experiment and add your favorite herbs and spices if you like.

The creamy chicken mushroom is ready! Top this with some freshly chopped parsley before digging in. I usually enjoy this dish on top of hot steaming rice. Yum!

Chicken Breast And Creamy Mushroom

You can convert this recipe to chicken breast and mushroom recipe by changing the ingredients to chicken breast instead of thighs.

Creamy Mushroom Chicken Recipe in Tagalog

Mga Sangkap:

• 1 kilo hita ng manok (o kahit anong part)
• 1 tasang mushrooms (canned)
• 250 mL (1 tasa) all purpose cream
• 4 butil ng bawang (hiniwa ng maliliit)
• 1 sibuyas (hiniwa)
• 1 piraso chicken broth cube
• 1 kutsarang toyo
• asin at paminta
• 1 tasang tubig
• mantika (pang prito)
• hiniwang parsley (pang garnish)

Paano Lutuin:

1. Hugasan at ihanda ang mga manok at ilagay ito sa lalagyan. Budburan ito ng asin at paminta at imassage ng konti. Gawin din ito sa kabilang side ng manok.
2. Magpainit ng mantika sa kawali. Ilagay ang mga manok (nakadikit sa kawali ang balat) at isangkutsa ng ilang minuto. Baliktarin ang mga ito para maluto ang kabilang side. Kapag parehas nang brown ang balat, ilipat ang mga ito sa strainer o paper towel para tumulo ang sobrang mantika. Isantabi.
3. Bawasan ang mantika sa kawali. Ilagay ang bawang at sibuyas at igisa ng ilang minuto hanggang maging mabango. Saka ilagay ang mushrooms (alisin ang sabaw) at igisa.
4. Ibalik ang mga manok sa kawali. Lagyan ito ng toyo, chicken broth cube at tubig. Takpan ang kawali at hayaan itong maluto ng 15 – 20 minuto gamit ang katamtamang apoy. Baliktarin ang mga manok sa kalagitnaan para maging pantay ang luto.
5. Pagkalipas ng 15 minuto, babaan ang apoy bago ilagay ang all purpose cream. Haluin ito ng mabuti at lutuin pa ng konti hanggang maging malabot at mas creamy ang sauce. Patayin ang apoy.
6.   Ilipat ang creamy chicken and mushrooms sa serving plate. Budburan ito ng parsley sa ibabaw bago ihain (optional). Enjoyin ito kasama ng mainit na kanin. Yum!