Lowney’s – Chicken Supreme

Ingredients

• 3 chicken breasts
• 1 can mushrooms
• 1 pint consommé (568ml)
• 2 cups forcemeat (approx. 480g)
• 6 slices cooked tongue
• ½ cup butter (114g)
• 1 tablespoon salt
• 1 cup Croquette Sauce (240ml)
• 6 truffles

Method

1. Divide each chicken breast into four fillets, separating the large fillet from the small fillet; brush large fillet with butter; spread with forcemeat; cover with small fillet; score small fillet diagonally; insert thin slices of truffles in each gash.
2. Cut slices of tongue half an inch larger than large fillet and place in baking dish with fillet on each piece.
3. Mix Croquette Sauce, consommé, chopped mushrooms, and cook ten minutes, add more seasoning if required, and pour around cooked fillets.
4. The fillets may be steamed until tender or cooked in the oven and basted with cream.

Title

Lowney’s Cook Book

Author

Maria Willet Howard