Best 20 Sherry Chicken Recipes

ROASTED CHICKEN WITH GARLIC-SHERRY SAUCE

Steps:

• For brine, in a large saucepan, bring water and salt to a boil. Cook and stir until salt is dissolved. Remove from the heat; cool to room temperature., Place a large heavy-duty resealable plastic bag inside a second large resealable plastic bag; add chicken. Carefully pour cooled brine into bag. Squeeze out as much air as possible; seal bags and turn to coat. Refrigerate 1-2 hours, turning several times., Preheat oven to 400°. Drain and discard brine. Rinse chicken with cold water; pat dry. Sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon pepper. In a large ovenproof skillet, brown chicken in oil over medium heat. , Bake, uncovered, 20-25 minutes or until a thermometer reads 170°. Remove chicken and keep warm. Drain drippings, reserving 1 tablespoon., In the drippings, saute garlic for 1 minute. Add broth, sherry or additional broth and thyme. Bring to a boil; cook until liquid is reduced to 1 cup. Discard thyme. Stir in the butter, lemon juice and remaining pepper. Serve with chicken.

CHICKEN SAUTé WITH SHERRY

Steps:

• Melt butter in skillet and sauté chicken pieces, turning to color on all sides-do not let them get too brown, the chicken should be just a delicate golden color. Reduce flame and add salt, pepper, and ginger. Add 1/2 cup sherry and cook gently for 15 to 20 minutes, turning chicken once or twice to bathe it evently in the juices. When tender remove to a hot platter. Add remaining sherry to pan, turn up heat, cook, and stir, scraping up the brown crust from the pan and blending it into the sauce. When blended and hot, pour sauce over chicken. Serve with sautéed or fried potatoes and a green salad. With this, drink a dry white wine.

CHICKEN AND MUSHROOMS IN SHERRY-CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• Pat chicken dry and toss with flour and season to taste.
• In a large skillet, heat 1 tblsp of oil over high heat until hot but not smoking; brown chicken and transfer to a bowl.
• Heat remaining tblsp of oil until hot but not smoking and saute onions, garlic and mushrooms, stirring, for 2-3 minutes, or until golden.
• Add Sherry and lemon juice and deglaze skillet, stirring and scraping up brown bits.
• Stir in chicken, cream and broth. Taste and adjust seasoning.
• Bring to a boil and boil until thickened.
• Arrange noodles on a platter, spoon chicken and sauce over and sprinkle with parsley.

CALIFORNIA SHERRY CHICKEN

Steps:

• Place chicken in a resealable plastic bag with flour, salt, and pepper. Seal bag and shake to coat. Remove chicken from bag, shaking off excess flour.
• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium high heat. Brown chicken on each side for about 5 minutes, or until golden. Remove from skillet and set aside.
• In same skillet combine sherry, broth, garlic and a squeeze of lemon and bring to a boil. Return chicken to skillet, reduce heat to low and simmer for 15 to 20 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through and no longer pink inside.
• In the meantime, saute carrots and zucchini in a separate medium skillet until they are tender. Add to simmering chicken and sauce and heat through before serving.

SWISS SHERRY CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C).
• Place chicken in a 9x13 inch baking dish and season with salt and pepper to taste. Cover each chicken breast with a slice of cheese.
• In a medium bowl mix together the soup, sherry and sour cream, and pour mixture over chicken. Soften dill in melted butter; toss croutons in butter, and sprinkle them on top of chicken.
• Bake in the preheated oven for 45 minutes, or until chicken is cooked through.

SHEET-PAN TARRAGON CHICKEN WITH SHERRY VINEGAR ONIONS

Steps:

• In a large bowl, stir together tarragon, garlic, oil, salt and pepper. Add chicken thighs and toss to coat. Cover with plastic wrap and chill for at least 6 hours, and up to overnight.
• Heat oven to 425 degrees. Spread onions out on a rimmed baking sheet, drizzle with oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper and toss well. Clear spaces on the baking pan, then place chicken pieces in the cleared spaces so the onions surround the chicken. Strew thyme and tarragon sprigs over onions and chicken.
• Roast, tossing the onions after 15 minutes, until chicken is cooked through and the onions tender, 25 to 35 minutes. If the chicken skin or onions are not as brown as you'd like, run pan under the broiler for 1 to 2 minutes at the end of cooking.
• Place chicken on a platter. Drizzle onions with sherry vinegar and more salt and pepper if needed. Spoon onions around the chicken and serve.

CHICKEN IN SHERRY MUSHROOM SAUCE

Steps:

• Place chicken broth in a small saucepan, bring to a boil over high heat, and cook 5 minutes or until reduced to 1 cup; set aside.
• Combine flour, salt and pepper, sprinkle over chicken.
• Coat a large frypan with cooking spray and place over medium high heat until hot.
• Add chicken, cook 5 minutes on each side or until browned.
• Remove chicken from frypan, and set aside.
• Wipe drippings from frypan with a paper towel.
• Add margarine, mushrooms and shallots to frypan, cook over medium high heat until mushrooms are lightly browned, stirring constantly.
• Add sherry, and bring to a boil, add broth and cook 7 minutes or until sauce is reduced to 1 1/4 cups.
• Return chicken to frypan, reduce heat, cover and simmer 10 minutes or until chicken is done.
• Remove chicken to a serving platter and keep warm.
• Cook sauce over high heat about 5 minutes or until reduced to 1 cup, stir in parsley.
• Serve sherry mushroom sauce with chicken breasts.

STUFFED CHICKEN DIVAN WITH A SHERRY DIJON SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat the broiler. Mist a shallow rectangular flameproof baking dish with cooking spray. Bring a medium pot of salted water to a boil. Add the broccoli and cook until bright green and crisp tender, about 5 minutes. Drain well and run under cold water until cold. Drain well again and squeeze dry in paper towels.
• Chop the broccoli and toss in a bowl with the Gruyere and garlic. Insert a paring knife into the thickest part of each chicken breast to make a 3-inch deep pocket. Stuff each chicken breast with equal amounts of the broccoli mixture. Rub both sides of the chicken breasts with oil and thyme and season with salt and pepper.
• Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat until very hot, about 5 minutes. Put the chicken in the pan and cook until golden brown and just cooked through, about 6 minutes per side. If the chicken begins to brown too quickly, turn the heat down to medium to finish cooking through. Transfer to the baking dish.
• Meanwhile, combine the milk and stock in a small pot, season with salt and pepper and bring to a simmer over medium heat. Stir the sherry and cornstarch until smooth and pour, whisking constantly, into the sauce. Cook until just thickened, about 2 minutes. Remove from heat and stir in the Parmesan. Top each chicken breast with 2 tablespoons of sauce and place under the broiler. Broil until lightly browned, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Let the chicken rest for 5 minutes and then cut each breast in half on an angle. Whisk the mustard into the remaining sauce and spread a few tablespoons on each plate. Top with a halved chicken breast.

QUICK SHERRY CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a large skillet, brown chicken in oil. Pour excess oil off.
• Stir in undiluted soup, sherry, and whole onions. Cover. Simmer for 45 minutes, or until done. Stir occasionally.

CHICKEN WITH FRESH HERBS AND SHERRY WINE VINEGAR

Steps:

• Whisk first 5 ingredients in large bowl. Add chicken; turn to coat.
• Preheat broiler. Arrange chicken, skin side down, on large rimmed baking sheet. Pour marinade over; broil 4 minutes. Turn chicken. Broil until cooked through and skin is browned, about 6 minutes.
• Transfer chicken to platter. Add vermouth and cold butter to juices on sheet. Place sheet over 2 burners on medium heat. Cook until sauce is reduced to 1/2 cup, scraping up browned bits, about 2 minutes. Pour warm sauce over chicken.

SHERRY SOUR CREAM CHICKEN

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• In a large skillet, saute chicken in butter/margarine until browned. Remove chicken and place in a 9x13 inch baking dish.
• Add sour cream and sherry to butter/margarine in skillet. Stir together until smooth. Season chicken with rosemary, thyme salt and pepper to taste. Then pour the sherry/cream mixture over the chicken. Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour.

CHICKEN SHERRY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Spray a 9x13-inch glass baking dish with cooking spray.
• Stir together the soup, mayonnaise, sherry, and nutmeg. Layer half of the green beans into the prepared baking dish. Spread with half of the chicken, half of the sauce, and half of the Parmesan cheese; then repeat the layers. Sprinkle the top with a little paprika.
• Bake in preheated oven until the Parmesan cheese has turned golden brown, and the casserole is hot, 45 to 60 minutes.

POUNDED CHICKEN WITH SHERRY-DIJON SAUCE

Steps:

• Preheat an oven to 500 degrees F (260 degrees C). Grease a baking sheet with olive oil.
• Mix egg and water together in a wide bowl. Mix bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese together in a separate bowl.
• Melt butter with sherry, Worcestershire sauce, Dijon mustard, and garlic in a small saucepan over medium heat; cook until slightly thickened, about 5 minutes.
• Dip chicken breasts into the beaten egg to coat. Press the dipped breasts into bread crumbs and gently toss between your hands so any bread crumbs that haven't stuck can fall away. Arrange onto the prepared sheet. Drizzle sherry-Dijon sauce over the breaded chicken breasts.
• Bake on a rack in the top third of the preheated oven until no longer pink in the center and the juices run clear, 5 to 7 minutes. An instant-read thermometer inserted into the center should read at least 165 degrees F (74 degrees C).

MUENSTER CHICKEN BREAST IN A SHERRY MUSHROOM SAUCE

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
• 2. Season both sides of chicken with salt and pepper; dredge lightly in flour to coat. Shake off excess.
• 3. Add oilk to frying pan. Over a medium heat, brown chicken on both sides. NOTE: Chicken will not be done at this point, you will complete cooking in oven. Transfer chicken to 9 x 13-inch baking dish.
• 4. Add butter to frying pan and allow it to melt over meduium/high heat. Add mushrooms, season with salt and pepper; brown mushrooms to a golden brown.
• 5. Add sherry and cook for 1 to 2 minutes. Add mushroom soup and milk; mix well.
• 6. Pour mushroom sauce over breast, cover with foil and bake for about 30 minutes. Remove from oven and top each breast with a slice of Muenster Cheese.
• 7. Place chicken under broiler and broil for 1 to 2 minutes or until the cheese bubbles and starts to brown. Remove from oven; set aside to cool slightly. Top with chopped parsley to garnish.

TAPAS - CHICKEN WITH SHERRY (PECHUGA DE POLLO CON JEREZ)

Steps:

• Season the chicken with salt.
• Lightly coat chicken in flour.
• Add 3 tbsp.
• olive oil to sauté pan over medium high heat.
• Panfry chicken until golden brown, about 2 to 3 minutes.
• Remove from the heat and season with black pepper and thyme.
• Meanwhile, heat remaining 1 tbsp.
• olive oil in a separate pan.
• Add the sherry and then the garlic.
• Add the chicken and cook for 1 minute.
• Finish with diced olives.

CREAMED CHICKEN WITH MUSHROOMS, PEARL ONIONS & SHERRY

Steps:

• Melt the butter in a large saucepan, add pearl onions and swirl them around for a few minutes to season the butter. Remove the onions from the butter and set aside.
• Blend in the flour. Cook for 2 minutes to remove the raw flour taste, whisking continually, careful not to overly brown the roux.
• Add the chicken broth and cream and stir until thickened and smooth.
• Add the chicken and mushrooms and pearl onions and cook for 1 minute, or until mixture begins to bubble.
• Season to taste and then stir in the sherry.
• Simmer on lowest heat setting for 15 -20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Careful not to burn.
• Serve over toast points, puff pastry patty shells or rice.
• NOTE: Now you can get fancier than this but because this sauce is plenty rich, I used plain toast to make toast points. Toast several slices of a hearty white bread. Remove the crusts, and slice on a diagonal getting 2-4 triangles per slice.
• Serve with a side of peas.

SAUTEED CHICKEN BREASTS WITH LEMON AND SHERRY

Steps:

• Season the chicken with salt and pepper to taste.
• Saute chicken in the butter in a skillet.
• Remove onto a plate when cooked through on both sides.
• Saute the mushrooms and scallions in the same pan using the butter that remains.
• Add the juice from one of the lemon halves (squeeze it right into the pan) and cut the other lemon half into thin slices of lemon and and add those to the pan and stir.
• Add the sherry and stir and simmer 1-2 minutes.
• Pour over the chicken and serve.

CHICKEN WITH GREEN OLIVES, ORANGE, AND SHERRY

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 425°F. Heat oil in large ovenproof skillet over high heat. Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper. Add chicken to skillet; cook until skin is crisp and browned, about 6 minutes per side. Transfer chicken to plate. Reduce heat to medium-high. Drain all but 2 tablespoons drippings from skillet. Add shallots; stir until soft and beginning to brown, about 2 minutes. Add garlic; stir 30 seconds. Add Sherry; boil until reduced by half, scraping up browned bits, about 3 minutes. Add chicken broth; bring to boil. Return chicken, skin side up, to skillet. Place orange wedges and olives among chicken pieces. Transfer to oven and braise uncovered until chicken is cooked through, about 20 minutes.
• Transfer chicken to platter. Bring sauce to boil over high heat. Stir in honey; boil until thickened, about 5 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. Pour sauce, oranges, and olives over chicken, or return chicken to skillet and serve.

BAKED SHERRY CHICKEN

Steps:

• 1. Preheat oven to 350. In skillet, brown chicken slowly in butter on all sides. Remove from skillet and place in single layer in 11 x 7 baking dish. Slice mushrooms, chop onions.
• 2. Add mushrooms and onions to skillet, scraping the bottom of the pan, and stir well to mix. Add a little more butter if you'd like. Bring to a nice simmer.
• 3. Let it cook a little longer, stirring often, till everything looks beautiful.
• 4. Add soup, sherry, seasonings, and lemon slices. Blend thoroughly, bring to a simmer.
• 5. Pour over chicken in baking dish.
• 6. Bake (uncovered) at 350 for about an hour, or until chicken is tender.
• 7. Remove from oven when it looks so beautiful you can't stand it.
• 8. Serve with rice and a nice green vegetable.
• 9. The sauce is lemony and delicious, and it's great spooned over the rice.

SHERRY CHICKEN WITH RICE

Steps:

• Place chicken in a 13 x 9 x2-inch baking dish.
• Sprinkle with salt, pepper and paprika.
• Melt butter in a medium saucepan.
• Stir in remaining ingredients except rice.
• Pour over chicken.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour or until done.
• Serve chicken and gravy over rice.