Easy Creamy Mushroom Chicken

Easy Creamy Mushroom Chicken

This recipe is great for nights when you need dinner on the table fast.   Serve over rice, pasta or with crusty bread to mop up the sauce, this recipe is what easy dinner dreams are made of.

Ingredients

4 chicken breasts Halved into two thin cutlets each
1-2 tbsp olive oil
2 tbsp butter
2 cups portabellini/Cremini mushrooms Sliced (approximately 250g or 1 lb.)
2-3 garlic cloves crushed
1 tsp dried oregano
½ tsp dried thyme
juice of ½-1 lemon to taste
1½ cups cream (heavy/whipping)
salt and pepper to taste

Instructions
Heat olive oil in a large frying pan.

Season chicken breasts generously on both sides with salt and pepper then place in the frying pan. Cook until golden on sides and Cooked . Remove from the pan and set aside.

Melt the butter in the pan then add the mushrooms. Cook until golden brown all over.

Add the garlic and herbs and allow to cook for 30 seconds before adding the cream.

Add lemon juice, salt and pepper to taste and allow to come to a simmer. Simmer 5 minutes then add the chicken breasts back to the sauce. Simmer for another 5 minutes until the sauce has thickened and can coat the back of a spoon.

Sprinkle over chopped parsley (optional) and serve.