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🍗 Chicken Sauté Chasseur (Hunter-Style) — Adapted for Home Cooks

Mark Dexter
🍗A classic French chicken sauté adapted for home cooks using stock and tomatoes instead of demi-glace. Golden chicken, mushrooms, wine, and a rich reduced sauce finished with fresh herbs.
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Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 40 minutes
Total Time 55 minutes

Equipment

Ingredients
  

  • 4 each chicken thighs (bone-in, skin on)
  • salt and pepper
  • 1 tbsp olive oil
  • 40 grams Butter
  • 1 small red onion (finely sliced)
  • 2 cloves garlic (crushed)
  • 200 grams mushrooms (sliced)
  • 125 ml dry white wine
  • 1 cup chicken stock
  • 1 cup canned diced tomatoes
  • 1 each Fresh tomato (added at the end 👈 key)
  • ⅓ bunch parsley + tarragon

Instructions
 

1. Season & Brown

  • Season chicken well. in a pan add olive oil and 20 grams butter heat gently.
    Place skin-side down in a pan and cook until golden.
    Turn and colour the other side.👉 Remove and set aside

2. Build the Base

  • In the same pan:
    Add onion Cook gently (no colour 👈 classic touch) Add mushrooms Cook until softened

3. Deglaze

  • Add white wine👉 Reduce by half

4. Build the Sauce

  • Add:
    Chicken stock
    Canned Diced tomatoes
    Bring to a simmer

5. Return Chicken

  • Place chicken back into the pan
    👉 Simmer gently
    cover with a cartouche place in to oven at 180℃ for about 30 minutes.

6. Concentrate the Sauce

  • Remove from oven
    Remove chicken again
    👉 Reduce the sauce until rich and slightly thickened

7. Finish Fresh

  • Add fresh tomato
    Add herbs
    add remaining 20 grams butter stir in to sauce
    Return chicken to the sauce and coat with a spoon.

8. Serve

  • Spoon sauce over
    Finish with herbs

    • 👨‍🍳 KOOK’S SECRET

    Remove the chicken before reducing the sauce.
    👉 This is how you control flavour👉 This is how you avoid overcooking

KOOK’S SECRETS

Nutrition

Calories: 128kcalCarbohydrates: 14gProtein: 2gFat: 5gSaturated Fat: 1gPolyunsaturated Fat: 1gMonounsaturated Fat: 3gTrans Fat: 0.02gCholesterol: 2mgSodium: 256mgPotassium: 213mgFiber: 1gSugar: 7gVitamin A: 76IUVitamin C: 6mgCalcium: 46mgIron: 1mg
Keyword comfort food, hearty, homemade, sauté
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