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🍽️ Creamy Chicken and Asparagus Fricassee
466 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 600 g chicken breast fillet
- 500 g asparagus
- salt
- 1 pinch sugar
- 1 tbsp butter
- pepper (from the mill)
- 2 tbsp ghee
- 2 onions
- 125 ml chicken broth
- 100 ml white wine
- 100 g crème fraîche
- lime (zest)
- 2 tbsp sauce thickener
- 200 g frozen peas
Instructions
- 1. Rinse the chicken breast and cut it into small, bite-sized cubes.
- 2. Thoroughly wash the asparagus.
- 3. Peel the bottom third of the asparagus spears with a vegetable peeler.
- 4. Cut off the tough ends of the asparagus spears.
- 5. Cut the asparagus into pieces approximately 4 centimeters long.
- 6. Allow the peas to thaw.
- 7. Pour 400 milliliters of water into a pot.
- 8. Add some salt and sugar to the water.
- 9. Add the butter to the pot.
- 10. Bring the mixture to a boil.
- 11. Add the prepared asparagus pieces to the boiling water.
- 12. Cook the asparagus for about 10 minutes.
- 13. Remove the asparagus from the water and set it aside.
- 14. Measure out approximately 125 milliliters of the asparagus cooking water.
- 15. Set the measured asparagus water aside.
- 16. Season the chicken cubes with salt and pepper.
- 17. Heat clarified butter in a pan.
- 18. Fry the chicken cubes in batches in the hot clarified butter.
- 19. Cook the meat for about 2 minutes.
- 20. Remove the fried chicken from the pan and set it aside.
- 21. Peel the onions.
- 22. Dice the onions into small cubes.
- 23. Sauté the onion cubes in the remaining frying fat.
- 24. Pour the measured asparagus water into the pan.
- 25. Add the meat broth.
- 26. Pour the wine into the pan.
- 27. Add the crème fraîche to the sauce.
- 28. Grate the lime zest directly into the pan.
- 29. Thicken the sauce with the sauce thickener until it is creamy.
- 30. Return the prepared chicken meat to the pan.
- 31. Add the thawed peas to the pan.
- 32. Add the prepared asparagus to the pan.
- 33. Heat the entire mixture briefly until it is warm.
- 34. Taste the sauce again and adjust with salt and pepper.
- 35. Serve the fricassee together with basmati rice.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 466
- Protein: 44 g · Fett/Fat: 21 g · Carbs: 19 g