Tasty and easy, this chicken and mushroom recipe is a good way to get started with Brazilian flavors. Recipes with eggs and milk show Portuguese influence in Brazilian cooking.
Ingredients
1 cup milk (or light cream)
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
3 cups chicken (chicken meat already cooked and sliced)
4 egg yolk
1 bell pepper (diced, better half green and half red)
1 cup mushroom (sliced)
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1⁄2 teaspoon salt
1⁄2 teaspoon pepper
1 cup broth (chicken broth)
Instructions
Melt the butter, add the mushrooms and diced pepper, red and green. Saute for 5 minutes over a slow heat to prevent butter from burning.
Add flour and seasonings, mix well, then add cold chicken broth and milk. Stir constantly until creamy.
Set dish over hot water in a double boiler, add chicken slices, lemon juice and cook until hot. Then add well-beaten egg yolks.
Continue stirring until everything is hot. Do not overcook unless you like creamy scrambled
Serve on toast, if desired.
Yield
6 servings
Nutrition: 230 estimated calories per serving
Preparation time
20 minutes
Cooking time
20 minutes
Total time
40 minutes
Notes
Churrascarias are the restaurants serving Brazilian churrasco.