Chicken A La King With A Kick
INGREDIENTS
- Spice Ingredients:
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper (or red pepper if you like it hotter)
- 1/4 tsp paprika
- 1/2 tsp onion powder
- 1 tablespoon garlic
- 4 skinless chicken thighs
- Remaining ingredients:
- 1 can (4 oz) mushroom stems and pieces, drained (reserve liquid)
- 4 - 6 chopped green onions
- 1/2 cup margarine or butter
- 1/2 cup all purpose flour
- Salt (i usually use minimal amount because of how much sodium is in the bouillon)
- 1/4 pepper (or to taste)
- 3 teaspoon instant chicken bouillon
- 1 1/2 cups milk
- 1 1/4 cups water from boiling the chicken
- Cut up cooked chicken from above
DIRECTIONS
- Mix together spice ingredients and add to water for cooking chicken
- cook on a low boil until chicken is fully cooked. Reserve water
- Cook and stir mushrooms and onions in butter over medium heat 5 minutes; remove from heat. Blend in flour, salt and pepper. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until mixture is bubbly; remover from heat. Stir in instant bouillon, milk, water and reserved mushroom liquid. Heat to boiling, stirring constantly. Boil and stir 1 minute. Stir in chicken, heat through.
- Served this over white rice. You can of course serve this over your choice of noodles. If you want to use fresh mushrooms, then add an addition 1/4 cup of the water from boiling the chicken.
RECIPE BACKSTORY
This was actual a fluke recipe. I was going to make my Garlic Pepper Chicken recipe and found out that I had defrosted only 4 chicken thighs with the bone in. What I needed was about 6 thighs, no bone, no skin. So I decided to make my Chicken A La Nala instead. Well, I had already mixed together the spices for Garlic Pepper Chicken so when I put the bone-in thighs into the water, I just through in the Garlic Pepper spices.....well....it tastes really good. Kinda like Chicken Ala King with a little kick to it.