French Fridays with Dorie: Chicken breasts diable

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This week’s French Fridays with Dorie dish is set to become a firm favourite in this house. Indeed, chicken breasts diable (p 217) was not only easy but ridiculously tasty – one of those dishes that tastes like you’ve been in the kitchen way longer than you actually have! The use of the word diable (devil) in a French dish usually refers to one which contains mustard – generally moutarde forte de Dijon (strong Dijon mustard).

Dorie Greenspan chicken breasts diable Around my French Table French Fridays with Dorie

This dish is Dorie’s take on the traditional poulet à la diable – on-the-bone chicken pieces coated with Dijon mustard and breadcrumbs, drizzled with melted butter and roasted. This version is much quicker and less fussy than that though – I whipped it up in about 30 minutes from start to finish.

Around my French Table Dorie Greenspan chicken breasts diable French fridays with Dorie

I actually made this three times in 2 days – it’s that good!  A little shallot and garlic sautéed then mixed with some dry white wine, heavy cream, Dijon mustard and Worcestershire sauce – et voilà! A fancy sauce that takes literally 10 minutes to pull together!

French Fridays with Dorie chicken breasts diable Around my French table Dorie Greenspan

I served it with some lemon-sautéed spinach (another FFWD recipe for March because, you know, it’s good to make 4 of the 5 Dorie recipes in the space of 2 days!) which was actually pretty perfect. You can bet I’ll be making this again. On a weeknight and for a special occasion.

 

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37 thoughts on “French Fridays with Dorie: Chicken breasts diable”

  1. Wow, perfectly styled, Mardi…your chicken looks amazing! And thanks for the spinach preview, too…can’t wait for that one 🙂

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  2. Beautiful chicken color – the spinach added the touch of color this dish was so desperately needing.

    (P.S. My rose syrup & extract both came in…That cake will soon be mine!)

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  3. Looks great, Mardi! I like how you put the chicken on top of the sauce instead of covering it up. That way you can see the lovely browning. I also ate this 3 times in 3 days, but I only made it once and enjoyed the leftovers. I can’t wait to make it again.

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  4. I can’t stop thinking about this dish – it was so so delicious! And the lemon steamed spinach was a perfect compliment. Chez Cleo (aka Mardi and Neil’s place) for the best chicken dishes ever.

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  5. I am with everyone else about the color you got on that chicken- I loved the recipe but since I rarely pound cutlets unless I am breading them (silly, I know) this was a nice reminder of how fabulous the breasts turn out as such. I can definitely understand why you have already enjoyed them so many times. I just need to tone down my mustard choice next time…..

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  6. I imagined the spinach would be pretty good with this, but the husband said he preferred to have asparagus. 😉 This was such a great dish – especially for being so simple and low-key! Reading the recipe, I would never have imagined I’d like it so much. Yours looks great with the spinach!

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  7. Gorgeous photos! Such a great sear on the chicken! Good idea to make most of the dishes within a span of two days. I should do that!

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  8. Hi! Just checking in to make sure it’s okay to link to you from Disney’s Babble.com. Would love to send some readers your way!! Your recipes are GORGEOUS!

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