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CHICK-MILAN(M) USENET Cookbook CHICK-MILAN(M)
CHICKEN MILANAISE
CHICK-MILAN - Chicken with white sauce
This is what my mother serves as Chicken Milanaise. I once
ordered Chicken Milanaise at a restaurant, and they served
me an entirely different dish, so I'm not sure as to whether
I'm using the name properly. In any case, this recipe is one
of my favourites!
INGREDIENTS (serves 4-6)
1 chicken
1 Tbsp salt
3 Tbsp unsalted butter
3 Tbsp flour
2 egg yolks
1 Tbsp lemon juice
2 cups white rice (to serve on the side)
salt and pepper (for the sauce)
PROCEDURE
(1) Place the chicken in a pot. Cover it with water,
add the salt and bring it to a boil, skimming any
scum that may form on the surface. Turn down the
heat, cover the pot, and cook the chicken for
about 1 hour or until it is done.
(2) Remove the chicken from the pot. Skim and discard
the chicken fat from the surface of the broth.
(3) Reserve 2 cups of broth for the sauce and use the
remaining broth to cook the rice according to
standard procedures for cooking rice.
(4) While the rice is cooking, make the sauce: melt
the butter under low heat in a saucepan and add in
the flour, salt and pepper. Stir until you get a
uniform mixture and then add the reserved broth
gradually, stirring constantly. When the mixture
thickens, remove from the heat.
(5) Beat the egg yolks with the lemon juice and add
them into the sauce. Stir the sauce until the egg
yolks are completely blended. The sauce is ready.
(6) Cut the chicken and serve with sauce on both the
chicken and the rice.
NOTES
You are supposed to use white pepper in the sauce but, since
I don't mind seeing a few black specs in the sauce, I always
use black pepper.
If you are going to reheat the sauce, make sure that it
doesn't come to a boil, otherwise the egg will separate.
RATING
Difficulty: Easy. Time: About 1 1/2 hours. Precision:
Measure the sauce ingredients.
CONTRIBUTOR
Kriton Kyrimis
Princeton University, Computer Science Dept., Princeton, New Jersey, USA
kyrimis@princeton.edu princeton!kyrimis