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Week of 12/9/19

Chicken with Mushroom Pan Sauce
and kale salad with apples

Active: 40 Total: 40
Original GF Paleo Vegetarian
Chicken with Mushroom Pan Sauce

This elegant, yet fast meal was previous featured in a meal plan in 2017.
Smarts: Feel free to customize the sauce if there are additional flavors you’d like to include - fresh or dried herbs, some red pepper flakes, or some lemon zest would all be great additions.

Tags
One Pot, Special Occasion
Proteins
Chicken, non-ground
Cuisines
European - French
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Ingredients

Metric
Servings:
4
Kale and Apple Salad:
  • Nuts, pecans - 1/3 cup , chopped
  • Apples - 1 , chopped
  • Vinegar, balsamic - 2 tsp
  • Mustard, Dijon - 1 tsp
  • Honey - 1/2 tsp
  • Oil, olive - 3 Tbsp
  • Kale, baby - 5 oz
Chicken with Mushroom Pan Sauce:
  • Shallots - 1 bulb , diced
  • Mushrooms, cremini or brown - 6 oz , sliced (look for pre-sliced to save time)
  • Chicken breasts, boneless and skinless - 1 lb , halved and pounded thin
  • Almond flour / meal - 1/2 cup
  • Oil, cooking - 1 Tbsp + 1 Tbsp
  • Thyme, dried - 1/2 tsp
  • Stock, any type - 1 cup

Prep

  1. Pecans / Shallots - Prep as directed and store separately. (Can be done up to 5 days ahead)

  2. Toast pecans - You can leave the pecans raw for the salad or, if you prefer, toast them in a dry skillet over medium heat until fragrant. (Can be done up to 5 days ahead)

  3. Mushrooms - Slice mushrooms (if not pre-sliced). (Can be done up to 2 days ahead)

  4. Chicken - Halve and thin out with a tenderizer until roughly half as thick. Season with some salt and pepper. Place almond flour in a baking dish. Dredge chicken in almond flour until evenly coated on both sides. 

  5. Apples - Chop apples.

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Make

  1. Whisk vinegar, mustard, and honey together in a large mixing bowl. Add olive oil while whisking. Top with pecans, kale, and apples. Wait to toss it all together until just before serving. Set salad aside while preparing chicken.

  2. Heat a saute pan or skillet over medium heat. Add first part of cooking oil. To hot oil, add chicken and sear on both sides until golden brown and cooked through, ~3 minutes on each side (do this in batches and add some additional oil if your pan cannot hold all of the chicken). Transfer chicken to a plate and return skillet to the heat.

  3. Add second part of cooking oil and then mushrooms to heated pan. Saute, scraping up any bits on the bottom of the pan, until mushrooms are golden brown, ~5 minutes. Add shallots and thyme and saute until shallots are fragrant, ~2 minutes more.

  4. Pour stock over mushrooms and increase heat to high. Simmer until sauce reduces by half, 4 to 6 minutes. Season with some salt and pepper.

  5. Add chicken back to pan and use a spoon to coat with sauce (don’t worry if the chicken is overlapping). Leave over heat for 1 minute to rewarm chicken and allow the flavors to come together.

  6. Toss salad just before serving.

  7. Serve chicken with mushrooms and sauce over top. Enjoy with salad on the side.

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