Better Chicken Marsala for Two

Name: Better Chicken Marsala for Two
Yield: Serves 2
Ingredients: 1 1/8 cups, dry Marsala; 2 teaspoons, unflavored gelatin; 1/2 ounce, dried porcini mushrooms, rinsed; 2 (6- to 8-ounce), boneless, skinless chicken breasts, trimmed; , Kosher salt and pepper; 1 cup, chicken broth; 1/2 cup, all-purpose flour; 7 teaspoons, vegetable oil; 1 1/2 ounces, pancetta, cut into 1/2-inch pieces; 8 ounces, cremini mushrooms, trimmed and sliced thin; 1 small, shallot, minced; 1 1/2 teaspoons, tomato paste; 1/2 teaspoon, minced garlic; 1 teaspoon, lemon juice; 1/2 teaspoon, minced fresh oregano; 1 1/2 tablespoons, unsalted butter, cut into 3 pieces; 1 teaspoon, minced fresh parsley

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By Andrew Janjigian

Appears in Cook's Illustrated November/December 2015

Main Courses

Chicken

For Two

Chicken cutlets napped with a silky mushroom-Marsala sauce are a restaurant standard. So why doesn’t anyone cook them at home?

SERVES2

TIME1½ hours

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

In our recipe for chicken Marsala, we take a new approach to fabricating and cooking chicken cutlets. First, we cut each chicken breast in half crosswise. Then, we cut the thicker half in half horizontally to make three identically sized pi...

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