Somerset Chicken with Sour Cream Mash

Main Chicken
  • Prep Time: 20m
  • Cook Time: 55m
  • Total Time: 1h15m

Servings: 4

Source

Ingredients

  • 4 chicken breasts
  • 100g Smoked Bacon Lardons
  • 30g Butter
  • 1 white onion, sliced
  • 2 celery sticks- chopped
  • 6 garlic cloves, chopped
  • 2 dessert apples peeled and sliced
  • 2 Tbsp Flour
  • 1 Tso Fennel Seeds
  • 250 ml dry cider
  • 200 ml chicken stock
  • 150 ml double cream
  • 1 heaped Tbsp English mustard
  • 1 tsp thyme leaves
  • Small handful (each) parsley,,tarragon,chives, chopped
  • 1 kg floury potatoes
  • 75 g butter
  • 100 ml sour cream
  • Salt & pepper

Instructions

  1. Heat the butter in a heavy pot. Season chicken, then brown on both sides until golden. Add the bacon and fry. Remove the chicken.
  2. Add fennel seeds, veggies and apples into the same pan, cooking gently until soft, let them caramelise slightly. Add the flour.
  3. Pour in cider and stock, scraping the pan. Return chicken, cover, and simmer gently for 35 minutes.
  4. Stir in cream and mustard, simmer uncovered for 5 minutes until silky. Season, then finish with parsley, tarragon and chives.
  5. For the mash: boil potatoes until tender. Drain, mash with butter and sour cream, season until rich and fluffy.
  6. Serve the chicken with its sauce spooned over a bed of mash.