Up until recently, I made the biscuits that come in a tube and startle you half to death when you pop them open. So when I make Chicken a la King, I like to serve it over biscuits. I find those a little tedious to work with- they just don’t rise right for me, and I can’t always find them at the grocery store. My mom serves her Chicken a la King in those little puff pastry cups. I really should put on my food-blogger-big-girl-pants and try one, but you know they are a fungus right? My dad hates mushrooms and thinks they are wicked little creatures, and I have to admit, I’ve don’t think I’ve ever really tried one! It was just one of those foods I never had to eat as a kid because of my dad’s aversion, and now I’m just too scared. I was looking at all the variations of this recipe on Google, and apparently it usually has mushrooms in it, and a variety of vegetables.
She definitely has the gift of hospitality. Maybe you did too? If you were a friend of our family, and had surgery, lost a loved one, or birthed a baby, my mom might have brought you a meal like Chicken a la King, a Jell-O salad, and a plate of cookies. Seasonings are adjusted, sweet peas are stirred in and the chicken à la King is ready to be enjoyed.This is a recipe I grew up eating around the dinner table with my family often. The cooked chicken is added and the almost-done chicken à la King is left to simmer until the meat is heated through. So, just after stirring them with the rest of the contents of the pan, the milk is poured in. Whichever you use, adjust the seasonings as needed. Or you may use a more robust chicken broth.
You may use the liquid in which the chicken was cooked. In fact, there was one Christmas when I made an effort to get both green and red, and use them for my chicken à la King for a more festive look.Ĭhicken broth is poured in and the contents of the pan are cooked with constant stirring to make sure no lumps form. Chicken à la King has white sauce so the roux shouldn’t be allowed to to dark as it does when cooked much longer.īell peppers are added and the cooking continues. Butter and flour are cooked together for just a few minutes. We use fillets which we cook in seasoned water, cool and cut into cubes. He still does but, for my younger daughter and I, we have since discovered the joys of tossing chicken à la king with buttered pasta.Ĭooking chicken à la King begins with deboned chicken. In the past, my husband always paired chicken à la King with bread. There’s also the matter of how the dish was served. She used canned but I’ve always cooked chicken à la King with fresh bell peppers and button mushrooms. I make it pretty much the way she did except for the bell peppers and mushrooms. The invention of chicken à la King as we know it today has been claimed by more than one persion but food historians are still debating which claim is the real deal.Ĭhicken à la King is one of the favorite dishes of my husband and his mom used to cook it everyday for his birthday. Some say the dish has been in existence much longer than that although it went by other names. Considered a retro dish, chicken à la King was highly popular from the 1950s to the 1990s.
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