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🍽️ Chicken Fricassee with Green Asparagus
467 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- 600 g chicken breast fillet (2 chicken breast fillets)
- salt
- 3 onions
- 1 bunch soup vegetables
- 1 bay leaf
- 10 black peppercorns
- 200 g wild rice mix
- 250 ml cooking cream
- 500 g white asparagus
- 10 g chives (0.5 bunch)
- 2 sprigs tarragon
- pepper
- nutmeg
- 2 tbsp lemon juice
Instructions
- 1. Rinse the chicken fillets under running water and pat them dry with kitchen paper.
- 2. Place the meat in a pot with 1.2 liters of water and a pinch of salt.
- 3. Bring the water to a boil and regularly skim off the foam that rises to the surface.
- 4. Halve the onions.
- 5. Clean the soup vegetables, peel them if necessary, and wash them thoroughly.
- 6. Roughly chop the vegetables.
- 7. Add the vegetables, a bay leaf, and some peppercorns to the pot.
- 8. Let the meat simmer over medium heat for 35 minutes.
- 9. Bring double and a half the amount of water (relative to the rice) to a boil in a separate pot and salt it.
- 10. Add the rice to the boiling salted water.
- 11. Cook the rice over low heat with the lid on for 15 to 20 minutes.
- 12. Remove the chicken fillets from the broth and set them aside.
- 13. Pour the broth through a fine mesh sieve into a clean pot.
- 14. Measure exactly 750 milliliters of the filtered broth.
- 15. Add the cream to the measured broth and bring the mixture to a boil.
- 16. Reduce the sauce over high heat for 15 to 20 minutes until only 550 milliliters remain.
- 17. Peel the asparagus and wash it.
- 18. Cut off the woody lower ends of the asparagus stalks.
- 19. Cut the asparagus stalks into pieces about 4 centimeters long.
- 20. Add the asparagus pieces to the sauce.
- 21. Cook the asparagus in the sauce over medium heat for 10 minutes.
- 22. Cut the set-aside chicken fillets into small cubes.
- 23. Add the chicken cubes to the fricassee.
- 24. Let the meat cook along for 3 minutes.
- 25. Wash the fresh herbs and shake them dry.
- 26. Finely chop the herbs.
- 27. Season the fricassee with salt, pepper, freshly grated nutmeg, and a splash of lemon juice.
- 28. Fold the chopped herbs into the fricassee.
- 29. Serve the finished dish together with the cooked rice.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 467
- Protein: 47 g · Fett/Fat: 9 g · Carbs: 49 g