Ryan’s Chicken Marsala

This past weekend was great not only for the Thanksgiving leftovers but that Tracy's brother Ryan flew in from Rhode Island to spend the weekend with us.  Although we three had some great meals out on the town we decide to stay home for a good home cooked family meal Monday night but we put Ryan in charge of cooking some of it.  Ryan shrugged off the task with an "Okay but I am cooking Chicken Marsala".  How could we tell him no? So here is Ryan's recipe for Chicken Marsala-

Ryan’s Chicken Marsala

Flour Coating

• ½ cup flour
• 1 tsp dried garlic or powdered garlic
• 1 tsp dried minced onion
• 1 tsp marjoram
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp pepper
• 1-1 ½ lbs chicken breasts cut into strips or cutlets

Mix dry ingredients in a sealable container- add chicken a few pieces at a time and shake to batter chicken.  Place battered chicken on a plate until ready to cook. Reserve 1 TBSP of flour mix for making sauce later.

Skillet

• 2 TBSP butter
• 2 TBSP EVOO 

Melt butter and EVOO in skillet over Med-High heat.  Cook half of the chicken pieces 3 minutes on each side or until golden.  Place cooked pieces of chicken on a cookie sheet and place in a warm oven until all other pieces are cooked.

Remember in the last post when I said 'I used a pot because someone else was using my skillet'?  This was why.

Sauce

• ½ cup chicken broth
• 1 TBSP flour coating mix
• ¾ cup marsala wine
• 1 TBSP butter
• 8 oz sliced mushrooms
• 1 tsp dried basil
• Pieces of parsley for garnishment (optional)

Once all chicken is cooked add broth and reserved TBSP flour mix to skillet and mix thoroughly.  Add marsala, TBSP butter, mushrooms, and basil to skillet, bring to a boil and then let simmer on LOW for 5 minutes to thicken sauce and soften mushrooms.   Plate pieces of chicken, pour sauce over chicken as desired and serve.  Add fresh pieces of parsley for garnish is optional. Here is the sauce on simmer.

Here is the final dinner plate with Ryan's Chicken Marsala, Seared Chard and some left over mashed potatoes.  Yum. Yum. YUM!

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Comments

[Katrina]

I'm going to try this - substituting seitan for chicken. There's a veg restaurant in NYC that serves a GREAT seitan marsala. :)

[Barb]

Mushrooms. Yum.
Marsala. Yum.
Mashed potatoes. Yum.

Perfection.

[Tracy and Aaron]

Katrina, let us know how the seitan works out. We are trying to eat meatless more often, yet can't substitute soy and as I understand it seitan is soy-free (of course I would still check my labels!)

[Barbara McNeely]

Hey Tracy & Aaron,
It was good to meet you both at Rosemary's party! I wanted to let you know that I made this Chicken Marsala a couple of weeks ago and it was Dee-lish-us!

[Tracy and Aaron]

Glad you enjoyed! I'll let my brother know, he'll be proud. And it was great to meet you also!