
How To Make Chicken Breasts with Spinach, Leek and Saffron Sauce
Tender chicken breasts are made aromatic with a deliciously creamy saffron sauce, and served with tender spinach and leeks, for a filling dinner meal!
Serves:
Ingredients
- ½cupdry white wine
- 1tspsaffron threads
- 2tbspextra virgin olive oil
- 6chicken breast halves,boneless, with skin
- salt and freshly ground pepper
- 1tbspunsalted butter
- 3large leeks
- 1large garlic clove
- 1½cupchicken stock,or low sodium broth
- 1bay leaf
- ÂĽcupheavy cream,plus 2 tbsp
- 4cupscurly spinach leaves,torn, packed
- 2tspdijon mustard
Instructions
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In a glass measuring cup, warm the wine in a microwave oven. Lightly crumble the saffron into the wine.
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Heat the olive oil in a large, deep skillet. Season the chicken breasts with salt and pepper and add them to the skillet, skin side down.
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Cook the chicken over moderately high heat for 2 minutes. Reduce the heat to moderate and cook for about 4 minutes until the skin is browned and crisp. Turn and cook for 3 minutes longer.
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Transfer to a plate.
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Melt the butter in the skillet. Add the leeks and cook over moderate heat, stirring, for about 3 minutes, until softened. Add the garlic and cook over moderately low heat for about 3 minutes, until golden.
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Add the wine and saffron and simmer for 2 minutes. Add the stock and bay leaf and bring to a simmer over moderately high heat.
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Return the chicken breasts to the skillet, skin side up and simmer over moderately low heat for about 10 minutes, until just cooked through. Transfer the chicken to a warmed platter.
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Add the cream to the skillet and simmer over moderately high heat for about 4 minutes, until slightly thickened. Add the spinach and cook for about 1 minute, until wilted.
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Remove the skillet from the heat and stir in the mustard. Season the sauce with salt and pepper. Discard the bay leaf.
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Spoon the sauce onto plates, top with the chicken breasts and serve. Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories:Â 321.69kcal
- Fat:Â 19.20g
- Saturated Fat:Â 6.68g
- Trans Fat:Â 0.17g
- Monounsaturated Fat:Â 8.56g
- Polyunsaturated Fat:Â 2.67g
- Carbohydrates:Â 12.53g
- Fiber:Â 1.75g
- Sugar:Â 3.70g
- Protein:Â 21.51g
- Cholesterol:Â 76.15mg
- Sodium:Â 610.46mg
- Calcium:Â 80.07mg
- Potassium:Â 507.03mg
- Iron:Â 2.74mg
- Vitamin A: 219.03µg
- Vitamin C:Â 12.88mg
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