Brazilian chicken and mushrooms
Description
Tasty and easy, this chicken and mushroom recipe is a good way to get started with Brazilian flavors. Recipes with eggs and milk show Portuguese influence in Brazilian cooking.
Ingredients
1 Cup milk (or thin cream) 2 Tablespoon butter 2 Tablespoon flour 3 Cup chicken (already cooked and sliced) 4 egg yolk 1⁄2 green bell pepper (diced) 1⁄2 red bell pepper (diced) 1 Cup mushrooms (sliced) 1 Teaspoon lemon juice 1⁄2 Teaspoon salt 1⁄2 Teaspoon pepper
Instructions
- Melt the butter, add the mushrooms and diced pepper, red and green. Saute for 5 minutes over a slow heat to prevent butter from burning. Add flour and seasonings, mix well, then add cold chicken broth and milk. Stir constantly until creamy.
- Set dish over hot water in a double boiler, add chicken slices, lemon juice and cook until hot. Then add well-beaten egg yolks. Continue stirring until everything is hot. Do not overcook unless you like creamy scrambled
- Serve on toast, if desired.
Ingredients, metric
250 ml
chicken broth
250 ml
milk, or thin cream
50 g
butter
50 g
flour
400 g
chicken, cooked, sliced
4
egg yolks
1/2
green pepper, diced
1/2
red pepper, diced
150 g
mushrooms, sliced
5 ml
lemon juice
salt
pepper
Nutrition facts
Percent daily values based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition information calculated from recipe ingredients.
Amount Per Serving
Calories
262.22
Calories From Fat (55%)
144.82
% Daily Value
Total Fat 15.85g
24%
Saturated Fat 6.34g
32%
Cholesterol 220.25mg
73%
Sodium 372.50mg
16%
Potassium 326.35mg
9%
Carbohydrates 6.33g
2%
Dietary Fiber 0.47g
2%
Sugar 0.55g
Sugar Alcohols 0.00g
Net Carbohydrates 5.86g
Protein 22.49g
45%
Bookmark/Search this post with 
Description
Tasty and easy, this chicken and mushroom recipe is a good way to get started with Brazilian flavors. Recipes with eggs and milk show Portuguese influence in Brazilian cooking.
Ingredients
| 1 | Cup | milk (or thin cream) |
| 2 | Tablespoon | butter |
| 2 | Tablespoon | flour |
| 3 | Cup | chicken (already cooked and sliced) |
| 4 | egg yolk | |
| 1⁄2 | green bell pepper (diced) | |
| 1⁄2 | red bell pepper (diced) | |
| 1 | Cup | mushrooms (sliced) |
| 1 | Teaspoon | lemon juice |
| 1⁄2 | Teaspoon | salt |
| 1⁄2 | Teaspoon | pepper |
Instructions
- Melt the butter, add the mushrooms and diced pepper, red and green. Saute for 5 minutes over a slow heat to prevent butter from burning. Add flour and seasonings, mix well, then add cold chicken broth and milk. Stir constantly until creamy.
- Set dish over hot water in a double boiler, add chicken slices, lemon juice and cook until hot. Then add well-beaten egg yolks. Continue stirring until everything is hot. Do not overcook unless you like creamy scrambled
- Serve on toast, if desired.
Ingredients, metric
250 ml
chicken broth
250 ml
milk, or thin cream
50 g
butter
50 g
flour
400 g
chicken, cooked, sliced
4
egg yolks
1/2
green pepper, diced
1/2
red pepper, diced
150 g
mushrooms, sliced
5 ml
lemon juice
salt
pepper
Nutrition facts
Percent daily values based on a 2000 calorie diet.
Nutrition information calculated from recipe ingredients.
Amount Per Serving
Calories
262.22
Calories From Fat (55%)
144.82
% Daily Value
Total Fat 15.85g
24%
Saturated Fat 6.34g
32%
Cholesterol 220.25mg
73%
Sodium 372.50mg
16%
Potassium 326.35mg
9%
Carbohydrates 6.33g
2%
Dietary Fiber 0.47g
2%
Sugar 0.55g
Sugar Alcohols 0.00g
Net Carbohydrates 5.86g
Protein 22.49g
45%
World in pictures
Discover international cuisine, food, and wine a picture at a time.
Ingredients, techniques, recipes.
Grapes, regions, producers.
Remarkable
Churrascarias are the restaurants serving Brazilian churrasco.
Food in Brazil