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    Pasta with Wild Mushroom Sauce and Grilled Chicken Recipe

    May 7, 2013 by G. Stephen Jones 2 Comments

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    Pasta with Wild Mushroom Sauce and Grilled Chicken Recipe

    Riccioli Pasta with Wild Mushroom Sauce & Grilled Chicken

    Needed a “quick & easy” recipe for dinner last night. My wife pulled out a bag of frozen chicken tenders from the freezer in the morning and marinated them in balsamic dressing before heading out to work.

    She “mentioned” we should use up the fresh, wild mushrooms in the refrigerator from the Farmer’s Market.

    What to do?

    How about a wild mushroom sauce served over this very cool pasta I found at Wegman’s called riccioli and topped with those grilled chicken tenders? Sounded like a good idea to me. Now I just have to come up with a recipe and here’s what I devised:

    Riccioli Pasta

    Riccioli (or should I say “little curls”) is a type of fusilli pasta traditionally made with a spindle shaped tool called a ferretto. About 2 inches in length, riccioli has a spring-like look after it is cooked.

    Hailing from Southern Italy, this versatile spirally pasta holds up quite well with chunky sauces like the mushroom sauce I prepared for this dish.

    Cream Sauce

    I wanted to make this a cream sauce but didn’t have any cream or half and half in the house but I did have some sour cream. I was a little concerned this sauce was going to turn into a stroganoff but it worked out fine.

    The recipe also calls for demi glace, a highly reduced beef stock reduction that requires a time consuming process to make at home but is commercially available. Read more about demi glace.

    Riccioli Pasta

    Sauteed Mushrooms

    Grilled Chicken Tenders

    Pasta with Wild Mushroom Sauce and Grilled Chicken Recipe
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    Pasta with Wild Mushroom Sauce and Grilled Chicken Recipe

    Prep Time10 mins
    Cook Time20 mins
    Total Time25 mins
    Course: Main Course
    Cuisine: American
    Servings: 4 servings

    Ingredients

    • 1 pound Riccioli pasta or some other spirally pasta like fusili

    For the Sauce

    • 2 tablespoons olive oil
    • 2 small onions peeled and finely diced
    • 3 cloves garlic peeled and finely diced
    • ¼ cup red wine
    • 1 pound fresh mushrooms mix sliced thin
    • 1 cup demi glace
    • salt and pepper to taste
    • ¾ cup sour cream or ½ cup half and half

    For the Chicken

    • 8 chicken tenders or 2 to 3 chicken breasts, seasoned with salt & pepper
    US Customary - Metric

    Instructions

    • Bring a large pot of water to a boil for the pasta and get your outdoor grill ready depending on if it is gas or charcoal. You know your grill and how long it takes to get hot.
    • The sauce takes about 20 minutes to prep and cook so time your pasta making and chicken grilling accordingly. The chicken takes approximately 10 minutes to cook as does the pasta.

    Preparing the sauce

    • In a large saucepan, heat up the olive oil until hot. Add the onions and cook until translucent over medium heat. Add the garlic and cook for about a minute.
    • Deglaze the pan with the wine and let it cook down for a minute or two.
      I like to add the mushrooms at this point. They will release a bunch of water and the wine and water will continue to cook down until there is nothing left.
    • Add the demi glace and season with salt and pepper. Let this cook to desired thickness. Reduce heat to medium low and then add the sour cream. Stir to incorporate and continue to cook for a minute or two to heat through.
    • Taste and adjust seasoning with salt and pepper.
    • Drain the pasta and get everything ready to plate.

    Plating the dish

    • Add some pasta to a bowl or plate, top with a few spoonful of mushroom sauce and top with the grilled chicken that can be left whole or sliced.

    Notes

    You may be thinking, “how do I make the sauce, grill the chicken and cook the pasta at the same time?” The sauce and pasta are easy but grilling the chicken requires breaking one of my golden rules for cooking and grilling – Never leave the grill or stove once you start cooking.
    Normally a lot can go wrong when you walk away from the grill but unless you have a partner to cook with, there are times you have to do it yourself. This was the case last night so I worked fast and there were no problems.
    We served peas with this dish, but you can serve any vegetable that the kids enjoy.

     

     

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    1. Barb

      February 19, 2014 at 8:20 am

      Delicious! Easy! I didn't make enough sauce though. So next time I will use more deglazing liquid (wine or chicken hbroth). I used 1 tbsp. of Williams and Sonoma's chicken Demi glacé instead.

      Reply
    2. Jo

      July 02, 2014 at 11:58 am

      need more help with appetizers using mushrooms and cherry tomatoes.

      Reply

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