Chicken To Please A Crowd!

Total Time: 45 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 25 mins

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons butter
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 2 large sweet onions, sliced into rings
• 6 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 -1 1/2 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon fresh cracked pepper
• 1 teaspoon garlic powder
• 7 lbs chicken breasts, pounded and sliced into strips
• 1/2 cup chicken broth or 1/2 cup wine
• 1/2 cup sliced sun-dried tomato packed in oil
• 1/4 cup oil, for browning if needed
• 1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme
• 3 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
• 20 ounces fresh mushrooms (i used baby bellas and button)
• 1 tablespoon green peppercorn
• 1/2 cup capers, rinsed
• 4 tablespoons sweet butter
• 10 cups fresh baby spinach
• 1/3-1/2 cup toasted pine nuts

Recipe

• 1 heat oil and butter in a large pan heavy bottom pan. saute onions and garlic 3-4 minutes till translucent. remove onions and garlic leaving oil in pan set aside.
• 2 mix flour, salt, pepper and garlic powder together. toss chicken in flour mixture to coat chicken strips.
• 3 in the same pan add oil if needed. lightly brown chicken strips on all sides. do not crowd pan. repeat till all strips are browned. adding additional oil as needed.
• 4 when all chicken is browned drain oil and discard.
• 5 to the pan add broth, wine or water, tomatoes, thyme, parsley, capers, & peppercorns scraping all the goodness (brown bits) from the bottom of the pan.
• 6 add mushrooms and butter bring to a boil toss in chicken to heat. mushrooms will stay firm.
• 7 toss the baby spinach with the onions.
• 8 place spinach in chafing 3 dishes top with 1/3 of the chicken mixture on each bed of spinach and top with all the goodies(tomatoes, capers, mushrooms and herbs).
• 9 the cooked chicken will wilt the spinach.
• 10 garnish with pine nuts.
• 11 sit back and watch it disappear.