Creamy Chicken with Apple and Portobello

2 tbs Butter
½ Onion
1 c. vermouth
1Carrot
1 c. Portobello
1 apple
1 lb chicken breasts
1 c cream




In skillet melt butter and sauté onions for a minute. Add vermouth, carrots, apple and mushrooms, let cook until vermouth reduces to half. Add chicken and cream. Cook until done.

Truffled Chicken

2 large shallots
½ cup wine
1 C. cream or half and half
1 tsp garlic (pre-minced)
3-4 chicken breast filleted and pounded out and seasoned
Asiago cheese
Truffle oil
Olive oil

Sautee chopped shallot in 1 tsp of oil for 1 minute. Add wine. Reduce to half. Add cream and salt, pepper, and garlic. Reduce to half. Line one side of chicken with cheese. Spoon 1TBS of sauce on top of cheese. Do this for each breast and roll. Set aside unused cream sauce. Secure with toothpick. Add TBS oil to pan and sautee breasts. About 7 minutes each side. Spoon remaining cream sauce over. Drizzle with truffle oil.

This would also be good with prosciutto and asparagus or substitute the asiago with gruyere.

Roasted Chicken with Root Vegetables

1 whole chickens innards removed
1 rutabaga cut into medium chucks
2 sweet potatoes cut into medium chucks
4 large carrots cut into medium chucks
1 onion cut into medium chucks
3 cups of dry white (preferably not a Chardonnay)
2 TBS flour
3 chicken bullion
Marjoram
salt
pepper


Preheat oven to 450. Cut up vegetables and layer the bottom of a roasting pan. Sprinkle with the 2 TBS of flour. Pour wine over and add bullion. Sprinkle with about 1 TBS of Marjoram. Roast vegetables for 30 minutes. Reduce oven temperature to 350. Sprinkle chicken with Salt, pepper and Marjoram. Place chicken breast down in vegetables and broth. Cover and cook until chicken is done (depends on size).

You can use any root vegetable. Parsnips and plain white potatoes would be good as would any winter squash.