Chicken, Asparagus, Mushroom Crepes

[iceman]

Chicken, Asparagus, and Mushroom Crepes

Recipe By:   Iceman / Pat Gbur


  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
  6        tablespoons  unsalted butter
  1/4     cup  all-purpose flour
  1        cup  heavy cream
  1        cup  chicken broth
  1/2     cup  water
  1/4     cup  shallot -- minced
  1/2     cup  mushroom -- diced
  2        cups  cooked chicken -- diced
  3        tablespoons  dry sherry
  1        pound  thin asparagus -- trimmed and chopped
  12       ea.  crepes

Heat 5 tablespoons butter in a heavy sauce pan over medium heat. Whisk in flour and stir constantly until roux is a pale golden brown.

Gradually add cream, broth and water constantly whisking until veloute sauce is thick and silky smooth; about 25 minutes.

Set aside and reserve 1/2 cup for topping crepes.

Cook shallots in remaining 1 tablespoon butter until softened. Add mushrooms and continue cooking until golden brown.

Stir shallot, mushroom mixture into veloute sauce and add chicken and sherry.

Cook asparagus in boiling water until crisp and tender; about two minutes and add to veloute sauce.

Fill crepes with aprox. 2 tablespoons veloute sauce and place seam side down in baking dish.

Top with reserved sauce and bake in preheated oven at 350 degrees for 15 minutes or until heated through.

Description:
  "Chicken, Asparagus, and Mushrooms in a Sherry Cream Sauce Stuffed into Crepes."

NOTES : For an alternate meal add cooked, chopped carrots, peas, and artichoke bottoms and serve in a hollowed out bread bowl.

[Wildcat]

This sounds great Ice.

[La Quinta]

WOW...WOW...WOW does that sound amazing! I'm doing a beer can chicken this weekend...would smoked chicken work with the flavors? I gotta try these!

[iceman]

WOW...WOW...WOW does that sound amazing! I'm doing a beer can chicken this weekend...would smoked chicken work with the flavors? I gotta try these!

I use left over beer can smoked chicken in that recipe all the time. REALLY good that way.

[Habanero Smoker]

Wow! Looks like another task to add to my never ending list.

[La Quinta]

May I assume you could use tortillas as well as crepes? Kinda like gormet enchilladas?

[iceman]

May I assume you could use tortillas as well as crepes? Kinda like gormet enchilladas?

Anything at all. It's even good just poured over butter milk biscuits. :P

[La Quinta]

Or over just plain ole toast! Like (again) gormet SOS!! :)

[Consiglieri]

I love the whole plan, sept them shrooms.  Can't abide em.

I make my grandfatther's pasta sauce, which calls for gourmet varieties, and I'll add them, but I'll pulverize them so fine that no none will know their in the sauce (especially me).  Long story short, all the flavor, but none of the evidence or texture. 

Have to try out the crepes all the same.


Cheers. 

[Tiny Tim]

I love the whole plan, sept them shrooms.  Can't abide em.

I make my grandfatther's pasta sauce, which calls for gourmet varieties, and I'll add them, but I'll pulverize them so fine that no none will know their in the sauce (especially me).  Long story short, all the flavor, but none of the evidence or texture. 

Have to try out the crepes all the same.


Cheers. 

I'll take your shrooms if you take my sparagus and shallots. :D

[Consiglieri]

I'll take your shrooms if you take my sparagus and shallots. :D

Deal.  But you need to sweeten the deal and throw in some capers.

[Tiny Tim]

I'll take your shrooms if you take my sparagus and shallots. :D

Deal.  But you need to sweeten the deal and throw in some capers.

Done. :D