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Creamy Chicken Wine And Pine

Something dreamt up whilst walking the dogs one hot summers day, and wanting something light for tea.

Ingredients

  • 1 onion, chopped
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 100ml sweet white wine (no, not a beer, dear)
  • 300g chicken breast, diced
  • 200g creme fraiche
  • 1 tsp demerara sugar
  • 1/2 tsp paprika
  • 150g closed cup mushrooms, sliced
  • 50g pine nuts
  • 20g chives, choped into 10mm legnths
  • 10g curly parlsey leaves, roughly chopped

Method

  1. Sweat the onion and garlic in a covered pan for 10 minutes. Remove the lid and cook for 5 miuntes more until softened.
  2. Add the wine and reduce to half.
  3. Add the chicken and fry briefly until sealed.
  4. Tip in the creme fraiche, sugar paprika and mushrooms. Mix well, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
  5. In a seperate pan, dry fry the pine nuts until brown and fragrant. Swirl and toss the pan frequently to ensure they are browned on all sides.
  6. Stir in the pine nuts along with the chives and parsley and cook for a minute more.

Serve with pasta.