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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


Crisco is a trusted ingredient in making great tasting wholesome
home-cooked
food. For nearly a century, generations have relied on Crisco to
consistently enhance the taste and texture of their foods.