Chicken with leek sauce
Dish: Main
Number: 4
Today I will teach you how to prepare one of the many recipes that we can prepare with this white meat, chicken with leek sauce, a very delicious and uncomplicated dish that you will have ready in a few minutes, plus the leek sauce is wonderful, I assure you that everyone will love it. We invite you to follow our step by step videos below, where we will detail all the elaboration of this delicious chicken with leek sauce.
Ingredients to prepare Chicken with leek sauce
- 8 fillets of chicken thighs (can be chicken breast as well)
- 2 very finely chopped leeks
- 200 ml. (6.7 fl oz) cooking cream
- 80 g. (2/3 cup) grated soft cheese
- 50 g. (1/2 cup) grated Parmesan cheese
- Salt and pepper to taste
- Olive oil
How To Make Chicken with leek sauce
Step 1: We begin the preparation of our chicken with leek sauce, for this, we salt and pepper our chicken fillets and then in a frying pan at medium high temperature and with a little olive oil, we will cook them until they are done (15 minutes approximately), reserve in a tray suitable for oven.
Step 2: In the same frying pan and at medium temperature, add the leek and let it poach (about 6 minutes) then add the cream, a little salt, a little pepper, the grated soft cheese, stir and let it cook for 5 minutes, remove from the heat.
Step 3: We add our leek sauce over the chicken, add Parmesan cheese and take it to the oven to gratin for approximately 8 minutes (the time will depend on each oven, when you see that the top is golden brown, it is done). Once the gratin time is over, remove from the oven and our delicious chicken with leek sauce is ready.
Tips for preparing Chicken with leek sauce
For this chicken with leek sauce recipe, we use chicken thigh fillets, but you can also use chicken breast.
If your oven does not have a broiler function, preheat it to 220 ºC / 460 ºF and cook the chicken until the top layer is golden brown, about 8 minutes.
For the sauce we use grated soft cheese, but you can use whatever you like.
It is important to wash the leeks very well before starting the recipe to make sure that there are no traces of dirt.
What can we accompany Chicken with leek sauce?
This delicious chicken with leek sauce can be served with any kind of garnish such as baked potatoes, mashed potatoes, steamed vegetables, etc.
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