Classic Chicken à la King Recipe
×Category: Main Course Ingredients | Type: Chicken | Servings: 8 | By: The Mikey
Protein 20g • Carbs 30g • Fat 18g • 350 Calories
Estimated macros only. Values are guidelines, not precise nutrition data.
This Chicken a la King recipe is true to the classic cozy meal with hearty chicken, mushrooms, green peas, and red pimentos in a flavorful from-scratch creamy sauce, and it's ready in just 30 minutes! Serve it over rice, noodles, biscuits, puff pastry, or toast.
Ingredients
- Unsalted Butter: 6 TBSP
- White Button Mushrooms (Sliced): 8 Oz.
- Medium Yellow Onion (Diced): 1 1
- Large Cloves Garlic (Crushed): 1 3
- Heavy Whipping Cream: 1/2 Cup
- Chicken Stock: 2 1/2 Cup
- All-Purpose Flour: 6 TBSP
- Salt: 1 TSP
- Black Pepper: 1/4 TSP
- Dry Mustard Powder: 1/2 TSP
- Cayenne Pepper (Optional): 1/2 TSP
- Cooked Chopped Or Shredded Chicken (rotisserie chicken works well): 3 Cup
- Frozen Peas (Thawed): 1 Cup
- Chopped Jarred Pimentos (Drained, well): 1 Cup
- Fresh Lemon Juice: 2 TBSP
- Minced Fresh Parsley: 1 TBSP
- Serve with (optional):
- Rice
- Egg Noodles
- Biscuits
- Puff Pastry Shells
- Toast
Instructions
- Add the butter to a medium-sized pot over medium heat. Once mostly melted, add the mushrooms and cook until starting to soften, about 3 to 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add the onion and cook until softened, about 5 minutes more, stirring occasionally.
- Stir in the garlic and cook for 30 seconds, stirring constantly.
- Stir in the flour and cook for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
- Add the chicken stock, cream, salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper, and mustard powder, and bring up to a boil. Turn the heat down to simmer and cook 3 minutes.
- Stir in the chicken, peas, pimentos, and lemon juice and cook until warm throughout, about 2 minutes.
- Serve garnished with fresh parsley along with rice, noodles, biscuits, or puff pastry shells if desired.
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