Sorrel Sauce Chicken Fish Lamb Or Veal Recipes

CHICKEN WITH SORREL SAUCE

Steps:

• Pick over the sorrel. Discard any tough stems and blemished leaves. Rinse the leaves and pat them dry. Pack the leaves closely and cut them crosswise into very thin strips. This is called a chiffonade There should be about two cups or slightly more when loosely packed.
• Pat the chicken breast halves lightly with a flat mallet. Sprinkle with salt and pepper.
• Prepare the mushrooms and set them aside.
• Heat one tablespoon of the butter in a saucepan and add the shallots. Cook briefly, stirring, and add the mushrooms. Cook until the mushrooms give up their liquid and the liquid evaporates. Add the sorrel and cook, stirring, until the sorrel wilts. Add the cream, nutmeg, salt and pepper. Cook about two minutes. Set aside.
• Heat the remaining two tablespoons of butter in a heavy skillet and add the chicken breast pieces. Cook, turning the pieces occasionally, until cooked through, about six to eight minutes.
• Pour the sorrel sauce into a heat- proof dish and bring to the boil, stirring. Arrange the chicken pieces on top. Spoon the sauce over the chicken and serve.

SORREL SAUCE (CHICKEN, FISH, LAMB OR VEAL)

Steps:

• In a heavy saucepan, soften the shallots and the garlic in the butter. Add the sorrel and cook, stirring, for one to two minutes.
• Add the chicken stock and cook another five minutes. Remove from stove. Peel the garlic and add the flesh to the sorrel. Puree with the sorrel mixture in a food processor and season with salt, pepper and lemon juice to taste.
• Place the sauce in a small saucepan and keep warm until ready to serve.

LAMB CHOPS WITH SORREL SAUCE

Steps:

• Trim the fat from the chops and wipe them dry with paper towels. Chop the sorrel into thin strips.
• Heat the oil in a large skillet and fry the lamb chops so that they are brown on both sides and pink in the middle. Place them on two dinner plates and keep warm.
• Drain off the fat and wipe the pan with paper towel. Add one tablespoon butter and saute the sorrel until wilted. Add the white wine and cook for a couple of minutes. Add the cream and cook for another three minutes. Add the lemon juice to taste and stir in the remaining butter gradually, so that the sauce thickens. Season with salt and pepper.
• Pour the sauce over the lamb chops and serve.

LEMON SOLE WITH SORREL SAUCE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Lay fish, skin-side-down, in an ovenproof dish. Season, dot with butter and pour over the wine. Place fish in the oven for 10 mins until just cooked, then lift onto a warm plate.
• Working very quickly, pour the juices from the dish into a small saucepan with the crème fraîche, boil until slightly thickened, then stir through the sorrel until just wilted. Spoon over the fish before serving. Buttered new potatoes on the side are a must.

CHICKEN WITH SORREL

Steps:

• Put butter in large skillet, preferably nonstick, and turn heat to medium-high. When butter begins to melt, swirl it around pan. When its foam subsides and it begins to brown, add the chicken, skin side down. Cook, rotating pieces after 3 or 4 minutes so they brown evenly. As they brown on the skin side, sprinkle them with salt and pepper and turn them over; sprinkle skin side with salt and pepper as well. If necessary, lower heat to medium to prevent burning. Remove chicken to a plate when chicken is completely browned all over, in 10 to 15 minutes.
• Immediately add onions to pan and cook, stirring occasionally, until they begin to soften but still hold their shape, about 5 minutes. Add 1/2 cup water and cook for a minute, stirring occasionally, until it reduces slightly. Return chicken to pan, turn heat to medium-low and cook, covered, for about 10 minutes. Uncover, add sorrel, stir, and cover again.
• Cook about 10 minutes longer, stirring occasionally, until chicken is cooked through and sorrel is dissolved into onions and liquid. Serve hot, with rice or crusty bread.