Carrabba’s Champagne Chicken

Carrabba’s Champagne Chicken – pan sautéed chicken in a quick champagne cream sauce – so delicious! Ready in minutes! Chicken cutlets, parmesan, mushrooms, red pepper flakes, heavy cream, tarragon, and champagne. Serve over angel hair pasta. This is a great dish for New Year’s Eve! #carrabbas #restaurant #chicken #pasta #creamsauce #champagne #newyears

Chicken in Champagne Cream Sauce

I saw a commercial for Carrabba’s new Champagne Chicken dish and it looked delicious.  I stumbled across the recipe on our local Fox station’s website and decided to give it a try. OMG! This tasted fantastic! We both thought it was restaurant quality. Try it this weekend with some crusty bread and our version of Carrabba’s bread dip.

How to Make Carrabba’s Champagne Chicken

Despite the number of ingredients, this chicken and cream sauce is very easy to make. Start with cooking the chicken. Rinse the chicken and dredge in a mixture of flour, parmesan, salt, and pepper. Melt some butter and olive oil in a skillet. Add the chicken and cook for about three minutes per side. Remove the chicken from the skillet and cover with foil to keep warm.

Next, make the sauce. Add the champagne and mushrooms to the pan. Use a spatula to scrape up the browned bits. Reduce the sauce by half. Whisk in cream, salt, pepper, red pepper flakes, and tarragon. Heat until sauce thickens to a creamy consistency. Serve chicken and sauce over angel hair pasta.

• The original recipe uses about ¼ cup of cooked crab meat. I omitted the crab because it was too expensive. Feel free to toss some crab meat into the sauce.
• You can use fresh or jarred mushrooms. I used jarred mushrooms in the photo. Chicken Legs prefers jarred/canned mushrooms to fresh.
• Carrabba’s uses a few slices of roasted red pepper in the sauce. I do not like bell peppers, so I substituted them with some red pepper flakes for a little kick.

What to Serve with Chicken Pasta

As I said, we served the chicken over some cooked angel hair pasta. It was lick-the-plate delicious! This has quickly become a favorite at our house. We’ve made it several times and absolutely love it! All you need is a salad/veggie and some garlic bread and you are set!

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Carrabba’s Champagne Chicken

Author: Plain Chicken

Yield: 4 people

Prep Time 10 minutes mins

Cook Time 15 minutes mins

Total Time 25 minutes mins

Carrabba's Champagne Chicken – pan sautéed chicken in a quick champagne cream sauce – so delicious! Ready in minutes! Chicken cutlets, parmesan, mushrooms, red pepper flakes, heavy cream, tarragon, and champagne. Serve over angel hair pasta. This is a great dish for New Year's Eve! #carrabbas #restaurant #chicken #pasta #creamsauce #champagne #newyears

Equipment:

• 12-inch Non-Stick Skillet

Ingredients:

Chicken

• 2 Tbsp olive oil
• 2 Tbsp butter
• 4 chicken cutlets
• ⅓ cup all-purpose flour
• 2 Tbsp grated parmesan cheese
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 pinch pepper

Champagne Cream Sauce

• 2 Tbsp butter
• ½ cup sliced mushrooms
• ¼ cup champagne
• ⅔ cup heavy cream
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 pinch black pepper
• ⅛ tsp red peper flakes
• ¼ tsp tarragon
• 6 oz angel hair pasta, cooked and drained

Instructions:

• Mix together the flour, salt, pepper, and grated Parmesan. Rinse the chicken pieces in water. Dredge them thoroughly in the flour mixture, until well coated.
• Heat olive oil and 2 Tbsp of butter in a large skillet on medium-high heat. Add half of the chicken pieces, do not crowd the pan. Brown well on each side, about 3 minutes per side. Remove the chicken from the pan and reserve to a plate. Cook the other breasts in the same manner, remove from pan. Cover with aluminum foil and keep warm in the oven while you prepare the sauce.
• Add butter to the skillet and melt. Add the mushrooms to the pan and cook until starting to soften.
• Add champagne to the skillet. Use a spatula to scrape up the browned bits. Reduce the sauce by half. Whisk in cream, kosher salt, black pepper, red pepper flakes, and tarragon. Heat until sauce thickens to a creamy consistency.
• Serve chicken and sauce over angel hair pasta.

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