Chicken à la King

Ingredients

• 1 tablespoonful butter
• 2 tablespoonfuls fine-cut onions
• 1 clove of crushed garlic
• 2 cups of cooked chicken
• 4 ounces fresh mushrooms
• 1/2 tablespoon sliced truffle
• 2 tablespoonfuls sliced green pepper
• 1 1/2 tablespoon flour
• 2 cups of stock (or water, with 1 teaspoonful beef extract)
• 1/2 cup of sherry wine
• 1 tablespoon tomato
• 1/2 teaspoon curry powder
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• a dash of paprika
• 1 yolk of egg
• 1/4 cup cream
• 1 teaspoonful lemon juice

Method

1. 1

   Put butter with fine-cut onions and garlic in a pan; cook for 2 minutes, then strain.

2. 2

   Add cooked chicken, mushrooms, truffle, and green pepper; cook until heated.

3. 3

   Add flour, stock, and let boil for 3 minutes.

4. 4

   Add sherry, tomato, curry powder, salt, and paprika; boil for 20 minutes.

5. 5

   Add egg yolk mixed with cream, let boil up, add lemon juice, and serve.

Nutrition per serving

Estimated from matched ingredients across 3 servings.

As published

This recipe was extracted from European and American cuisine (1914) by Lemcke, Mrs. Gesine Knubel, page 262. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

Chicken a la King. — Put 1 tablespoonful butter with 2 table- spoonfuls fine-cut onions (add ^ clove of crushed garlic, if liked) ; cook 2 minutes, then strain; add 2 cups of cooked chicken cut into 1-inch sized pieces, 4 ounces fresh mushrooms sliced, % table- spoon sliced truffle, 2 tablespoonfuls sliced green pepper ; cook and stir till heated ; add i^ tablespoon flour, 2 cups of stock (or water, with 1 teaspoonful beef extract) ; let boil 3 minutes ; add ^ cup of sherry wine, 1 tablespoon tomato, % teaspoon curry powder, y2 teaspoon salt, a dash of paprika; boil 20 minutes, then add 1 yolk of egg mixed with 14 c^P cream; let boil up; add 1 tea- •poonfnl lemon juice, and serve. Chicken Livers, Stewed. — ^Wash and wipe dry the livers of 6 chickens, season with 1 even tablespoonful seasoning salt. Place a small saucepan with 1 ounce butter over the fire ; as soon as hot put in the livers, cook 6 minutes; add 2 tablespoonfuls sherry or Madeira wine and a pinch of Cayenne pepper. Melt Yj ounce butter in another saucepan, add Vg tablespoonful flour, stir 3 minutes ; add Yt pint of boiling water and 1 teaspoonful beef extract, then 1 gill of fine-chopped mushrooms, cook 5 minutes ; add this sauce to the livers, cook a few minutes longer ; add 1 tablespoonful lemon juic

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