Chicken A La King
A vintage clipped recipe for Chicken A La King, make this classic with butter, green pepper, mushrooms, flour, pimento, cream, diced chicken, butter, egg yolks, onion juice, lemon juice, salt, and buttered toast.
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Ingredients
- 2 tbsp butter
- 2 tbsp minced green onion
- 1 cup canned mushrooms, broken
- 2 tbsp flour
- 2 tbsp minced pinento
- 2 cups coffee cream
- 3 cups diced chicken
- 1/4 cup butter
- 3 egg yolks
- 1/2 tsp onion juice
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp salt
- Buttered toast or pastry shells
Method
- Melt two tablespoons of butter and saute green pepper and mushrooms; blend in the flour.
- Add coffee cream gradually and cook until slightly thickened.
- Add chicken and place over hot water.
- Beat one-fourth cup of butter to a cream; add egg yolks, one at a time, beating well after each addition and then blend into the cream mixture; cook slowly as to not to curdle, until the consistency of boiled custard.
- Season with onion juice, lemon juice, and salt.
- Serve at once on buttered toast or in croustades or patty shells.
Kitchen Helper 2
Retro Mixing Bowls
medium saucepan
Double Boiler
Notes
Yield: 6 to 8 servings.