Thanks to my local blogger friend Toni, the Boulder Locavore, I still had lots of green garlic left after preparing an unbelievably tasty green garlic risotto the other day. On a recent trip to visit Toni in Boulder, she had given me two big bundles of young garlic that she had purchased at a local farm.
Here the green garlic is combined with leek, a creamy Dijon mustard sauce and chicken. This is a very simple, but flavorsome dish that comes together very quickly. Perfect for a busy weeknight, but also elegant enough to serve your guests.
Don’t miss out on this one!
Ingredients:
* 2 tablespoon olive oil
* 2 organic chicken breasts, cubed
* salt and pepper
* butter
* 3 leeks, chopped
* 8 green garlic
* 2 cups chicken broth
* 1/2 cup brut champagne, or good dry white wine
* 3 tablespoons Dijon mustard
* 1/2 cup cream
* 2 teaspoons Herbes de Provence
* 1 tablespoon fresh Thyme
* salt and pepper
* 1 tablespoon cornstarch
* 1 tablespoon cold water
Directions:
Mix cold water and cornstarch. Set aside.
Heat oil and fry the chicken on high until nicely browned on the outside. Transfer chicken on a plate. Set aside.
Lower heat to medium and saute leek and green garlic in the butter for about 3 minutes. Sprinkle with Herbes de Provence. Add champagne, mustard, chicken broth, cream and corn starch mixture. Cook until leek is tender. Return the chicken to the pan and simmer on low heat until the chicken is completely cook through. Serve over Basmati rice.
Adapted from Bon Appetit.
This little hummingbird had been taking shelter under our front porch when some snow arrived on Thursday. He was parked right next to a feeder and let me take his picture. Isn’t he cute?
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Gorgeous, absolutely gorgeous. I'm super hungry now :)!
looks delicious — and at first I thought the hummingbird was so weird part of the dinner. Glad it's only a cute photo!
🙂
i love dijon chicken!!!!
Mustard is one of my new favorite ingredients – I grew up hating it, but have found a new love of it. Poor hummingbird. I'm sure the crazy weather the past few days have really ruined his spring. He is adorable!
That hummingbird photo is really stunning. Lovely photos all around, but that one is priceless.
Der Kleine ist wirklich suess. Tolles Foto. Ein Anna Kolibri? Aber dein Gericht hat mich zum Blog gebracht, genau das Richtige fuer die naechsten Tage. Familienbesuch ist angesagt und da wird weniger Fisch gewuenscht.
Your photos are great! The dish looks amazing in the hummingbird is too cute!
what a lovely looking dish! it's just picture perfect! thank you for sharing this.
You may have given me an idea for dinner tonight. I was just wondering how to make chicken tonight. That hummingbird is adorable!
Love your recipe butI love too this hummingbird is sooo cute, nice picture! gloria
Yum, that looks fantastic. I can imagine all those flavours popping on my palate right now!
I'm totally making this for dinner one night this week! It looks amazing and sounds so good! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Your photos are beautiful, I can taste the Dijon Mustard Chicken! Not really but almost, I will be trying your recipe because I know I will love it!
The little bird is beautiful, you've captured it in such detail, thanks for sharing;-)
What a nice meal. I love when I can use left over ingredients from a previous recipe. Darling little bird too.
Mmmmm, this looks delish! I am so glad to see that you got this reposted after the Blogger calamity. It was definitely worth the wait.
He's more than cute…he's fantastic…but don't tell him how good must be your recipe above!!! Hugs, Flavia
This is not a gratuitous blog comment…I really am going to make this for dinner. I too still have access to green garlic and cannot think of anything more warming after two days of snow and rain than this! So glad you've made good use of your supply!
This dish looks tasty. I love cooking with leeks.
My condolences on the weather. I thought we had it bad here, but at least we don't have snow any more. The chicken looks wonderful, loaded with good flavors.
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