Italian Chicken and Green Olives recipe
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Italian Chicken and Green Olives

This recipe will make you look so good! The red and yellow peppers with the green olives, in the rich creamy sauce, makes a beautiful presentation! I served it for company just the other night and my guests said, "you missed your calling in life, you should have your own restaurant." (It was really good) This recipe is #1 on my "company's coming" recipe list!

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Servings: 6 Servings
Total Time (median): 2 : 00 Active Time: 0 : 00

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Ingredients

  • 3 tblsp olive oil
  • 3 tablespoons butter-divided
  • 6 chicken breast filets
  • 1 lg. onion finely chopped
  • 3 garlic cloves minced
  • 3 each red, yellow & green bell peppers,
  • seeded and cut into large pieces
  • 3 medium peeled and seeded tomatoes (quartered)
  • 10 ounces white mushrooms sliced or cut into fourth's
  • 1 1/2 cups dry white cooking wine
  • 2 cups pitted lg green olives
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • chopped fresh Italian parsley

Preparation

Sautee salted & peppered chicken in 2 tblsp of olive oil and 2 tblsp butter till browned

Remove chicken from pan

Add onions and garlic and sauted till soften

Add the bell peppers and mushrooms, cook for 2-3 minutes

Add the tomatoes and olives and season to taste with salt and pepper.

Transfer veggies to a casserole pan

Arrange chicken on top of veggies

For the sauce:

To the same pan, add the cooking wine to the skillet and bring to a boil over med heat and simmer 3-5 minutes. Add the heavy cream and simmer for another 3-5 minutes.

Add 1 tblsp butter and simmer 3 more minutes

(At this point you may thicken with corn starch if you like a thicker sauce)

Pour sauce over chicken and veggies (At this point you may refrigerate to save time when preparing for dinner guests. Just add another 10 minutes to cooking time.)

Cover and bake in a 350 degree oven for 10-20 minutes (hot and bubbly)

Serve over angel hair pasta; compliment with a Caesar Salad, bread.


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kentondickersonkentondickerson :  :  1y 49w 2d ago


This is a great recipe! My roommate does not like sauces made with milk or cream though, so I adapted this one by making a roux of 2 T. butter and 2 T. flour before adding the wine. I whisked the wine in to make a smooth sauce. After adding the remaining 1 T. butter, it was a little thick so I thinned it with chicken stock. Just wonderful!

cindydcindyd : : 2:00 total time :  2y 6w 3d ago


townsendtomtownsendtom : comment :  2y 44w ago


I will try this again, now that I have all the instructions. This was posted twice and some of the instructions were missing from the other copy. I may omit the olives though, and will definately thicken the sauce with a bit of cornstarch.

1morestamp1morestamp :  :  4y 28w ago


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DeaunnaDeaunna :  :  4y 33w 4d ago


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