Saturday 12 November 2011

Sous Vide (Slow Cooked) Chicken Breast in Morel Sauce


Ingredients:
Chicken Breast x 1pc

Morel Sauce:
1oz dried morels
35g butter
1tbsp flour
100ml dry white wine
100ml cream


How to make:
Follow Step 1 to 2 [if you are using a slow cook machine. Otherwise, just wah and dry the chicken breast and marinate with salt and peper and pan fried in frying pan to medium.

1. Wash and dry chicken breast and put in vacuum bag with some milk. Sealed up the bag.

2. Turn slow cook machine temperature to 64'C. Once this temperature is reached, put vacuumed packed chicken breast inside the water bath for 2 hours.

Morel Sauce:
1. Rinse the morel mushrooms.
2. Either soak the mushrooms in 500ml milk or hot water. If former, you need at least 1-2 hours. For latter, 15 to 30 minutes will do.
3. Squeeze out water form mushrooms and drain them. Rinse the mushrooms but reserve the mushroom liquid by sieving them to a clean jug for later use.
4. Cut the mushrooms into bite size.
5. Melt butter in pan, then add flour and stir well for 1 minute.
6. Add the white wine gradually, but stirring well at all times.
7. Add the mushroom liquid slowly, stirring.
8. Add all mushrooms and simmer for 20 min.
9. Add cream, season with salt and pepper to your tasting.

Take out chicken from slow cooker and remove from vacuum bags, cut into pieces and put morel sauce on top.

** Chicken breast cooked this way is so tender that you won't believe it! It's healthy too! And morel sauce is also the perfect sauce for chicken breast.
With a glass of white wine, that's the way to spend a great evening indeed!

enjoy! :)

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