Chicken a la King – How to Make Chicken A La King
This is one of my favorite things to do with leftover chicken or turkey. It takes only a few minutes to put together, (despite the apparently long list of ingredients), simmers off nearly unattended, and the result is pure lusciousness.
Chicken (or turkey) a la king is often served as a dressed up meal, although it doesn’t have to be reserved for a formal occasion. Sure – dress it up if you wish – but I love this one as much for a go-to family meal as anything else. This is also one of the most adaptable recipes I know – feel perfectly free to make substitutions at will. Change out the mushrooms for anything you have – my favorite is criminis or brown mushrooms, but I’ll use whatever I have.
There are a couple of easy omissions as well – if you don’t have good sherry – the real, honest to goodness thing, then please don’t use that stuff off the shelf at the grocery. It’s just nasty. Feel free to skip it if you’re feeding kids – most of the alcohol burns off, but not all of it. If you don’t have fresh nutmeg, don’t worry about it. The fresh is yummy, the ground stuff just isn’t. And change out whatever you’d like to serve it over – I love puff pastry shells when I have them, but cut sheets into squares and it works just as well. Or use toast points, or biscuits, or rice or noodles…