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    Creamy Harvest Chicken Dinner


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    Recipe Introduction


    Chicken with Apple Cream Sauce
    Brown Rice or Long Grain/Wild Rice Combination
    Peas and Carrots
    Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting
    Serve this with brown rice or a combination long grain/wild rice
    mixture,
    and some steamed peas and carrots. For dessert, serve some carrot cake
    to
    complete the north-country feel of the dish.


    List of Ingredients




    CHICKEN WITH APPLE-CREAM SAUCE
    Preparation time: 10 minutes
    Total time: 30 minutes
    4 servings
    4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
    1/2 teaspoon salt
    1 tablespoon CRISCO Oil
    1 cup apple cider or juice
    1 teaspoon lemon juice
    1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary
    1/8 teaspoon pepper
    1/2 cup heavy cream (see Note)
    1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley

    Rinse chicken. Pat dry. Sprinkle with salt. Heat Crisco Oil in large
    skillet
    with cover on medium-high heat. Add chicken. Cook about 4 minutes per
    side
    or until browned. Add applecider, lemon juice, rosemary, and pepper.
    Reduce
    heat. Cover. Simmer 10 minutes or until chicken is no longer pink in
    center.
    Remove chicken. Keep warm.
    Add heavy cream to skillet. Cook and stir until reduced by half and
    thickened. Stir in parsley. Return chicken to skillet. Heat about 2
    minutes.
    Serve chicken with sauce spooned over top.
    Note: If using milk or low-fat milk in place of heavy cream, thicken
    sauce
    with 1 teaspoon cornstarch dissolved in 2 tablespoons apple cider. The
    sauce
    can be doubled if desired. The dish can be prepared up to a day in
    advance
    and refrigerated, tightly covered. Reheat covered over low heat before
    serving.
    When any sauce is 'reduced', the water evaporates and concentrates the
    flavor of the sauce. That's why it's a good idea to increase the amount
    of
    sauce for a recipe, if desired, but never omit this 'reduction' step.
    For
    cream sauces, such as this one, the butter fat content of heavy cream
    also
    thickens the sauce as it reduces.

    While lemon juice is sour, it is a flavor enhancer for sweet fruits,
    such as
    the apples in this recipe. Sprinkle some lemon juice on fresh fruit
    salads
    or add a few teaspoons to the fillings of fruit pies or other baked
    desserts


    If your favorite boxed cake mix is made into cupcakes, it's easier for
    the
    kids to pack them for lunch at school. To make them less messy, insert
    some
    frosting into the center of the cupcake using a bulb baster instead of
    frosting the top.

    Wash the kid's scissors and let them carefully cut up the parsley into
    small
    bits.

    Recipe



    Dinner Game PlanShopping List

    1. Heat oven
    2. Bake carrot cake
    3. Start rice
    4. Prepare chicken
    5. Cook peas and carrots
    6. Frost carrot cake

    1 bunch parsley
    Apple cider
    Heavy cream
    Eggs for cake mix
    Frozen mixed peas and carrots
    4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts halves
    Crisco Oil
    Lemon juice
    Dried rosemary
    Long grain/wild rice mix
    Carrot cake mix
    Cream cheese frosting


 

 

 


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