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Chicken Modiga Recipe

Chicken Modiga Recipe

Olivia Brooks
This Chicken Modiga recipe features chicken, mushrooms, lemon, wine, and melted cheese for a creamy, delicious, easy weeknight dinner.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 25 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Course Dinner
Cuisine American
Servings 4
Calories 480 kcal

Equipment

  • A cutting board
  • A sharp chef’s knife
  • A skillet bottom (or a meat mallet)
  • 1–2 large sauté pans
  • Shallow bowls for dredging
  • Tongs
  • Spoon/silicone spatula made of wood.
  • Baking dish (in case of broiling the cheese)
  • Measuring cups & spoons

Ingredients
  

For the Chicken

  • 4 flattened and pounded chicken breasts.
  • 1 cup of bread crumbs plain/ Italian
  • ½ cup grated parmesan
  • 1 tsp garlic powder
  • 1 tsp onion powder
  • Salt and pepper
  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 2 tbsp olive oil

For the Sauce

  • 2 tbsp butter
  • 1 small onion chopped
  • 2 –3 garlic cloves finely minced
  • 1 cup sliced mushrooms
  • 1 ¼ cup chicken broth
  • ½ cup dry white wine
  • 1 tbsp lemon juice
  • 1 tbsp flour to make the sauce thicker
  • 1/2 cup heavy thick cream not necessary but wonderful
  • Salt and pepper

For the Cheese Topping

  • 1 cup Provel cheese or any of the following combinations: 1/2 mozzarella and 1/4 provolone, and 1/4 Swiss
  • Extra parmesan for finish

Instructions
 

Prepare the Chicken

  • Freeze-butterfly the chicken breasts and pound out to a thinness without being too thin.
  • Add the breadcrumbs, parmesan, powdered garlic, powdered onion, salt and pepper in a shallow pan.
  • Pat the chicken with the coating, pressing it into the chicken so that the coating sticks.

Pan-Fry the Cutlets

  • In a pan, add butter and olive oil and heat it on medium heat.
  • Place the chicken in the pan and cook until it becomes golden on both sides (34 minutes each).
  • Set aside on a plate.

Start the Sauce

  • Add butter to the same pan and saute the onions until they become tender.
  • Add some mushrooms and cook until caramelised.
  • Add the garlic and cook separately for 30 seconds.

Deglaze

  • Put the white wine and boil it.
  • Warm up the brown stuff (nothing like your cooking ace).
  • Put lemon juice and chicken broth.
  • Stir in flour in case one wants a thicker sauce.
  • Simmer 5 minutes.

Added Cream (Added, but changing life)

  • Add the heavy cream and stir.
  • Taste and adjust seasoning.

Combine

  • Return the chicken to the pan.
  • Spoon sauce over each piece.
  • Top with the cheese mixture.

Melt the Cheese

  • You can either:
  • Place the pan in the oven at a low temperature to melt the cheese.
  • or
  • Grill 23 minutes to blistering gold.

Serve

  • Later, pour more sauce over the chicken.
  • Add more parmesan.
  • Parsley (you feel fancy).
  • Eat now.
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