Chicken Marsala amongst a creamy sauce! This classic Italian-American chicken recipe includes tender, perfectly pan seared chicken cutlets, in addition to flavour enhancing browned mushrooms, too it’second all covered amongst a richly seasoned marsala wine, garlic and herb sauce.
Who doesn’t honey a dish like this that y'all tin can make at dwelling house in addition to skip the $xx+ eatery toll tag per serving?
This Chicken Marsala recipe is equally equally skillful equally what yous’ll get at an Italian eating house and then it’sec the perfect thing to make on your own, together with of course a keen dish to serve to guests.
And my version comes together apace since yous trim down the marsala wine separately piece the chicken as well as mushrooms prepare. I’one thousand all almost saving fourth dimension.
The other groovy matter virtually this recipe is the addition of heavy cream. It really only improves the overall consistency, richness too season of the sauce. It helps balance out the acidity of the vino.
It’second a classic dish that does not disappoint!
Then amongst the leftover marsala vino why non make homemade cannoli? It would brand for a dinner certain to print anyone lucky enough to relish!
Ingredients Needed to Make Chicken Marsala
- boneless skinless chicken breasts
- table salt and pepper
- all-purpose flour
- unsalted chicken broth
- dry out marsala wine
- unsalted butter
- olive oil
- cremini (babe bella) mushrooms
- garlic
- fresh thyme, oregano together with parsley
- heavy cream
- cornstarch
How to Make Chicken Marsala amongst Creamy Sauce
- Reduce marsala wine too broth: Add marsala vino together with chicken broth to a medium saucepan. Heat over medium-high oestrus, take to a boil, so cut rut slightly and permit gently boil until reduced to ane cup, almost fifteen minutes.
- Prepare chicken cutlets: Meanwhile inwards flavor both sides of chicken with table salt together with pepper. Dredge in flour.
- Cook chicken through inward skillet: Melt ane Tbsp butter with ane Tbsp olive fossil oil in a 12-inch skillet over medium-high oestrus. Add chicken pieces as well as let sear until cooked through (165 inward centre), turning one time halfway through, virtually 10 – 12 minutes.
- Set chicken aside, go on warm: Transfer chicken to a plate. Tent with foil.
- Saute mushrooms: Reduce burner temperature to medium heat. Melt remaining 1 Tbsp butter with one Tbsp olive crude oil, add mushrooms. Saute mushrooms, simply tossing occasionally, until gold brownish, almost viii minutes. Add garlic during concluding 1 minute of sautéing.
- Add reduced liquids too seasonings, thicken sauce: Remove pan from estrus and then pour inwards marsala reduction, thyme, in addition to oregano. Return to rut, take to a simmer and then stir inwards cornstarch chicken broth mixture. Stir until thickened.
- Stir inwards cream, season sauce: Off heat stir inwards heavy cream, flavor sauce amongst table salt together with pepper to sense of taste.
- Add sauce to chicken, garnish: Return chicken breasts to pan, spoon sauce over top. Sprinkle with parsley together with serve right away.
Can I Use Sweet Marsala Wine?
I don’t recommend using sweetness marsala vino. There is a generous total of wine hither as well as it is reduced so it would solely sweeten the sauce that much more. I’d stick alongside dry out for best results.
Is There a Substitute for the Wine?
Unfortunately for this recipe without the marsala wine it wouldn’t live chicken marsala then I don’t recommend substitutes. Instead I’d recommend trying my creamy mushroom chicken.
What to Serve amongst Chicken Marsala?
- pasta
- roasted vegetables
- baked potatoes or mashed potatoes
- steamed asparagus
- cheesecake for dessert
Tips for the Best Chicken Marsala
- Be certain to permit enough time for the marsala vino together with chicken broth mixture to simmer so it cooks of the stiff alcohol flavor, which could otherwise overpower the dish.
- Stick amongst unsalted chicken broth, sauce is reduced quite a scrap and y'all don’t want to stop upwards amongst an overly salty dish.
- Don’t function marsala “cooking wine”. It’sec salted, has added preservatives, as well as just has an overall lower quality.
- Use a medium-high oestrus to ready chicken for a nice pan seared browning (equating to bang-up flavor).
- Cover chicken alongside foil spell y'all complete the sauce to go on it warm.
- Don’t skip the flour. This encourages browning likewise equally gives the sauce something to cling to.
- Don’t skip the cream. The best marsala sauce inward my persuasion is a creamy marsala sauce.
More Delicious Chicken Recipes to Try
- Baked Chicken Breasts
- Caprese Chicken
- Chicken Parmesan
- Chicken Piccata
- Creamy Garlic Herb Chicken
- Creamy Lemon Romano Chicken
Chicken Marsala
Ingredients
- ane ane/four cups dry marsala wine*
- i ane/iv cups unsalted chicken broth
- ii (10 - 11 oz) boneless skinless chicken breasts, butterflied too halved, pounded to an even thickness
- Salt as well as freshly earth dark pepper
- i/three cup all-purpose flour
- 2 Tbsp unsalted butter
- two Tbsp olive crude oil
- 8 oz. cremini mushrooms, sliced
- 3 garlic cloves, minced (one Tbsp)
- one tsp minced fresh thyme (or scant 1/two tsp dried)
- 1 tsp minced fresh oregano (or scant ane/ii tsp dried)
- i 1/two tsp cornstarch whisked with 1 Tbsp chicken broth (inwards a small bowl until well combined)
- one/iii cup heavy cream
- i Tbsp minced fresh parsley
Instructions
- Add marsala wine and chicken broth to a medium saucepan. Heat over medium-high rut, convey to a boil, and so bring down heat to medium and let gently boil until reduced to 1 loving cup**, virtually 15 minutes.
- Meanwhile flavor both sides of chicken with table salt in addition to pepper. Dredge each side inwards flour.
- Melt i Tbsp butter amongst i Tbsp olive crude inwards a 12-inch skillet over medium-high rut. Add chicken pieces and allow sear until cooked through (165 inwards centre), turning in one case halfway through, about ten - 12 minutes.
- Transfer chicken to a plate. Tent with foil.
- Reduce burner temperature to medium rut. Melt remaining i Tbsp butter amongst 1 Tbsp olive petroleum, add mushrooms.
- Sauté mushrooms, only tossing occasionally (as well as increasing burner temp slightly every bit needed to encourage browning), until mushrooms take shrunk too are gilded chocolate-brown, nearly 8 minutes. Add garlic during concluding i infinitesimal of sautéing.
- Remove pan from rut and so pour in marsala reduction***, thyme too oregano.
- Return to rut, take to a simmer, spell scraping upwardly browned bits from the bottom, so stir in cornstarch chicken broth mixture. Stir until thickened****.
- Off heat stir inwards heavy cream, flavor sauce alongside salt too pepper to gustatory modality. Return chicken breasts to pan, spoon sauce over top.
- Sprinkle alongside parsley in addition to serve straight off.
Notes
- *If y'all want a more mild marsala flavour in the dish you lot can trim marsala vino down to three/iv loving cup as well as and so increment chicken broth to ane iii/4 cups.
- **If past gamble it was accidentally reduced to less than one loving cup and so simply add more than chicken broth to accomplish i loving cup.
- ***Depending on the wine yous may as well want to add together a pinch or 2 of sugar if it has no sweet to it to rest the acidity.
- ****If sauce seems a footling thick add together a splash of chicken broth, if its seems a piddling thin y'all can add together inward a petty extra cornstarch mixed alongside broth.
Amount Per Serving
Calories 448
Calories from Fat 216
% Daily Value*