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🍽️ Creamy Chicken Fricassée with Rice
600 kcal · 30 min · 4 servings
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Ingredients
- Soup hen 1 pc.
- Salt pinch
- Soup vegetables 1 bunch
- Bay leaves, dried 2 pc.
- Lemons 1 pc.
- Long-grain rice 300 g
- Butter 7 tbsp
- Wheat flour, Type 405 5 tbsp
- Pepper, white ground pinch
- Sugar pinch
- Green asparagus 1 bunch
- Eggs 1 pc.
Instructions
- 1. Rinse the soup chicken under running water and pat it dry with a kitchen towel.
- 2. Place the chicken in a large pot and add 1.5 liters of water and 1 teaspoon of salt.
- 3. Bring the water to a boil and regularly skim off the foam that rises to the surface.
- 4. Cook the chicken over medium heat for about 60 to 70 minutes.
- 5. Wash the soup vegetables and peel them if necessary.
- 6. Cut the vegetables into coarse cubes.
- 7. Add the prepared vegetables and the bay leaves to the broth after about 30 minutes of cooking time.
- 8. Remove the chicken from the pot after cooking and let it cool down.
- 9. Pour the broth through a sieve into a bowl and set it aside.
- 10. Carefully separate the meat from the bones.
- 11. Cut the chicken meat into bite-sized pieces.
- 12. Halve a lemon and squeeze out the juice.
- 13. Bring 700 milliliters of water to a boil in a pot.
- 14. Add the rice to the boiling water and cook over low heat for about 12 minutes.
- 15. Melt 50 grams of butter in another pot.
- 16. Stir the flour into the melted butter and cook it briefly while stirring constantly.
- 17. Deglaze the mixture with 800 milliliters of the reserved chicken broth.
- 18. Let the sauce simmer gently for about 2 to 3 minutes.
- 19. Season the sauce with salt, pepper, sugar, and the lemon juice.
- 20. Rinse the asparagus and peel the bottom third.
- 21. Snap off the woody ends of the asparagus.
- 22. Cut the asparagus into pieces about 5 centimeters long.
- 23. Add the chicken meat and asparagus to the sauce.
- 24. Let everything simmer gently for about 5 minutes.
- 25. Separate an egg and set aside the egg yolk.
- 26. Whisk the egg yolk with a little warm sauce.
- 27. Stir the egg yolk mixture into the fricassee to thicken it.
- 28. Avoid bringing it back to a boil so that the sauce does not curdle.
- 29. Mix the cooked rice with the remaining butter.
- 30. Serve the chicken fricassee together with the rice.
Nutrition per serving
- kcal: 600
- Protein: 40 g · Fett/Fat: 25 g · Carbs: 60 g