I love chicken and I usually prefer to cook with dark meat rather than white meat for better flavor. This chicken with mushroom sauce is a simple, comforting and delicious dish.
I think that comfort food should never be seasonal and in Colombia we cook stews, soups and other comforting dishes like this one no matter how hot it is outside. This dish can be prepared up to one day ahead.
White rice and avocado are perfect accompaniments to this dish.
Enjoy it!
Ingredients
(4 servings)
2 tablespoons butter
8 chicken thighs or legs
2 garlic cloves, chopped
1/4 cup chopped onion
1 pound baby bella mushrooms, sliced
1 cup chicken stock
1 cup heavy cream
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin
Salt and pepper
Fresh parsley
Fresh thyme
Directions
1. Season the chicken generously with salt and pepper. In a large fry pan over medium-high heat, melt the butter. Add the chicken and cook, turning once or twice, until golden brown on both sides, about 8 minutes total. Transfer the chicken to a plate.
2. Add the onion and sauté until barely softened, about 3 minutes. Add the mushrooms and sauté until their juices are released, about 5 minutes. Add the garlic and cook for 2 minutes more. Add the chicken broth and heavy cream.
3. Return the chicken and any juices from the plate to the pan and spoon the mushrooms over the chicken. Cover, reduce the heat to medium-low and braise the chicken until opaque throughout, 20 to 25 minutes. Stir in the thyme, parsley, cumin and season with salt and pepper.
4. Serve warm over white rice.
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I also love the dark meat of the chicken, which was a learned experience for me. For years I woulld not touch it and always had to have the white chicken breast. Though I do prefer the thighs over the legs. I also love to cook with baby bellas. Your entire dish looks delicious.
Wow! What a beautiful picture!
Erica, me encnatan los champiñones, esta receta se ve muy rica, besoos, gloria
That is one gorgeous picture Erica and it looks very enticing!
I love comfort food all year round too.
Esto es un plato casero. Tan rico y me encanta el aguacate
Oooo! This looks like a very comforting dish! I’m imagining how great the gravy sauce must taste.
Beautiful chicken dish. I love that with rice too. Maybe with another dish of vegetable stir fry.
Having tried this type of sauce before I can vouch that it is absolutely delicious!
YUM…gorgeous meal! =)
looks so colorful and yummy!!!
Love any creamy mushroom sauce and this one sounds perfect!
I love chicken with mushrroms! The sauce in this dish sounds so flavorful!
Love the combination of mushrooms and chicken.
Carmen
i love me some chicken legs! great sauce, too, and even your accompaniments are perfect. well done, erica!
I used to like chicken thighs but now I prefer the breast. I could eat anything with mushrooms and this looks so good.
Thank you all so much for the comments!
Me encanta esa salsa!, yo suelo hacerla mucho con el solomillo de cerdo.
Probaré también con el pollo.
Un beso.
lovely mushroom sauce with cumin and thyme…..just starting to discover cumin in my cooking …so I will give this a try
I am a big believer of comfort food for anytime too! Your chicken is mouth-watering. What delicious sauce!
Jeeze, Erica, that is straight out food porn! My wife loved the look of the plate and I agree with you on the dark meat, although I have to do white meat a lot for the family.
i just made this tonight and the whole family loved it!! even our 17 month old ate it up!!!! thank you!!!!!
I made this for lunch with slices of chicken breast as my husband does not like dark meat and he loved it!! the sauce was delicious. thank you for the recipe
This recipe is fantastic! My 2 year old gobbled it up! Thank you for all these recipes. We have tried several and have really enjoyed all of them! Best of all, my husband is super happy that I am learning how to cook food he grew up on!
I made this for dinner tonight and it was absolutely delicious. I didn’t have thighs or drumsticks so I used breast, but I think it turned out good. My husband on the other hand suggested I use the thighs or drumsticks next time and he didn’t even know that the recipe called for the dark meat. This is a keeper for me. Gracias paisana.
I always make it with chicken breasts but this recipe looks delicious. I need to definitely try it!!!