Today on The Stay At Home Chef I'm
showing you how to make Chicken a la King
This classic recipe is ready to make a
comeback in your kitchen as an easy
weeknight dinner. To start melt 1/2 a cup
of salted butter in a saucepan or
skillet over medium heat. Once that butters all melted add in 8
ounces of sliced mushrooms and we'll get those cooking. You want the mushrooms to
be fully cooked and soft which will take
about five minutes. Then we'll sprinkle
in 1/2 a cup of all-purpose flour and
you want to stir this in until there's
no more white specks and everything has
combined with the butter and the liquid
from the mushrooms. Kind of looks gross
but that's exactly what we're going for:
no more white specks. Then we'll pour in
2 cups of chicken broth and
1 1/2 cups of milk and bring this to a
simmer. As the sauce comes to a simmer
the flour is going to act as a
thickening agent and our sauce will
thicken. While we're waiting for that to
happen in a small bowl we're gonna whisk
together two egg yolks with 1/3 a cup of
heavy cream. This will make our sauce
nice and rich. Then we're gonna ladle up
about 1/2 cup of that thickened
mixture and pour it in with our egg
mixture and whisk this really quick. This
is called tempering your yolks
and then we'll pour it back in with the
mixture/ We want to work quickly with
this so that those eggs don't curdle and
cook. You want to stir it all in. Let that
cook over low heat for 2 minutes then
pour in 1 cup of frozen peas, about 1 cup
of drained pimentos, those are sold in a
can, and then you'll need 4 cups of
cooked diced chicken. Stir this all in
You can use shredded rotisserie chicken
for this, some leftover chicken or you
can just buy some chicken, saute it in a
pan or pop it in the oven with a little
salt and pepper on it. You want to cook
this all for just a few
it's more just long enough for
everything to heat through and then
you're ready to eat! Chicken ala King is
served up over rice or toast or biscuits
or pasta whatever your family likes the
best.
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