Dijon Tarragon Chicken. Melt the butter and heat the oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Season chicken with salt and pepper, and place in the skillet. Stir in Dijon mustard and tarragon and season sauce with salt and pepper.
Stirring cream into the pan, scrap up brown bits left in bottom of the pan. Return chicken to skillet and coat with sauce. Dice garlic and mix in a bowl with a bit of tarragon, a good glug of olive oil and the lemon juice. You can cook Dijon Tarragon Chicken using 11 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Dijon Tarragon Chicken
- You need 8 of chicken tenders, or 4 breasts.
- It's 1 cup of flour.
- You need of I tsp each seasoning salt, garlic powder and cayenne.
- Prepare 2 tsp of Dijon mustard (divided).
- You need 2 tbsp of butter.
- You need 1/4 cup of white wine.
- You need 1 of shallot minced.
- You need 1/2 cup of half and half.
- It's pinch of salt.
- Prepare 3 tsp of tarragon.
- You need tsp of chicken boullion granules.
Pat dry the chicken breasts and salt and pepper both sides. Pour tarragon-mustard mixture over chicken; toss to coat. Whisk mustard, garlic, tarragon, honey, and lemon juice in a small bowl. Pat chicken breasts dry with a paper towel; coat one side of each breast with mustard sauce.
Dijon Tarragon Chicken step by step
- Add 1 tsp of mustard to the raw chicken, just glazing it over the top of each breast or tender.
- Put flour and seasonings on a plate, lightly roll chicken in the flour. Don't coat it like you would to fry chicken, just a light dusting.
- Get butter melting in a skillet over medium high heat, add chicken. Cook 5 min, flip, cook 5 more min. Set aside. If using breasts, cook about 7-8 min per side.
- In the same skillet, add shallot and white wine, let cook about 5 min, turn heat to medium low, add half and half, whisk for a few min, it'll start to bubble, once it's thickened some, after about 7 min turn heat to low, add mustard, salt, granules, and chicken. Cover. Cook 5 min..
- Top chicken with tarragon..
- Serve it up! Cheers!.
- NOTE: if you do not like the flavor of Dijon mustard, you will hate this dish. The mustard really stands out. Adds a "twang".
This easy skillet chicken dish gets elevated with the flavor of fresh tarragon. I'm a huge fan of tarragon. Bring two cans chicken broth to a boil. Add chicken to the broth, cover and reduce heat to simmer. Remove chicken to a plate and pour broth into a large measuring cup or batter bowl.