Whenever my grocery store has a sale on chicken breasts, I buy an extra two or three packages and freeze them. This dish is a wonderfully rich tasting meal that is healthy and budget-minded.
| Level: | Easy |
| Total: | 25 min |
| Prep: | 5 min |
| Cook: | 20 min |
| Yield: | 4 servings |
Ingredients
- Two 14-ounce cans chicken broth
- 4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts, 6 to 8 ounces
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 tablespoons flour
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 2 tablespoons chopped fresh tarragon or, 2 teaspoons dried
- Salt and freshly ground black pepper
Instructions
- Bring 2 cans chicken broth to a boil. Add chicken to the broth, cover and reduce heat to simmer. Poach chicken 12 minutes. Remove chicken to a plate and pour broth into a large measuring cup or batter bowl. Return the pan to heat and add butter. When butter melts, add flour and cook, whisking with butter, 2 minutes. Slowly pour cooking liquid back into the pan, until appropriately thickened, combining with a whisk. Stir in Dijon mustard and tarragon and season sauce with salt and pepper. Return chicken to the pan and coat with sauce. Simmer 2 or 3 minutes to heat chicken back through and to combine flavors. Serve with rice pilaf, and roasted squash vegetable medley.
Nutrition Facts
| Serving Size | 1 of 4 servings |
| Calories | 145 |
| Total Fat | 8 g |
| Saturated Fat | 4 g |
| Carbohydrates | 5 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Sugar | 1 g |
| Protein | 13 g |
| Cholesterol | 55 mg |
| Sodium | 803 mg |
Reviews
Bland and the sauce was too runny
Surprisingly good! I made because I had lots of extra tarragon. Very easy and quick. Served with a rice pilaf I made using excess broth and roasted brussels.
Simple and delicious! Family loved it!
The sauce was amazing, but the chicken was overcooked. Shorten the chicken poach cook time by 3 minutes to eliminate dried and tough chicken. Other than that I passed this recipe to everyone I know.
This is an extremely quick, easy, tasty and pretty chicken dish. I will add this one to my collection and use it a lot and I rate it 4 STARS.
This is one of our favorite chicken recipes. We really love it with our fresh Tarragon from the garden.
This is such an amazing recipe! Very flavorful and super tender Im cant believe this recipe isnt rated five stars!
very good
This was a quick, easy and flavorful recipe. Some of the other reviews are disconcerting- the modifications make for an entire different recipe!! I followed it entirely except added 3 cloves of garlic to sauce when you add the tarragon. (But I use garlic in everything. This recipe is also nice as all of the ingredients are on-hand.
Nice simple recipe with ingredients that I readily have at home. I used chicken thighs for a more tender chicken which tasted great poached. The Dijon mustard gives the sauce a more homestyle flavor and because I’m a huge fan of Dijon, I used two table spoons instead of one. Had some potatoes that needed to be cooked so the chicken was eaten with roasted potatoes. The potatoes served as a good way to wipe up the residual sauce on the plate.