This is a very tasty and easy to make recipe in which chicken is cooked with mushrooms and tomatoes.

Ingredients:
Chicken tenders (16-18 pieces, 2 lbs), Chicken broth (1½ cup), Shallots(finely chopped, 2), Sun-dried tomatoes (chopped coarsely, ½ cup), Garlic cloves (minced, 4), Thinly sliced basil (¼ cup), Fresh white mushrooms (sliced,1 lb), Garlic cloves (minced, 4), Crushed red pepper flakes (¾ tsp.), Olive oil (¼ cup), Butter (2 tbsp.), Flour (1 cup), Dry sherry (1 cup), Heavy whipping cream (½ cup), Salt, Pepper, Cooked pasta or rice

Method of preparation
Take a pan and melt butter in it. Now add sliced mushrooms and cook on medium-high heat. Stir continuously, till mushrooms loss their water and are slightly brown in color. Now add shallots and cook for 2-3 minutes so that they become soft and after that add garlic, tomatoes and pepper flakes. Sauté it for 2-3 minutes. Remove the pan from heat, put the mushrooms in a plate and set aside. Now take the chicken, wash it properly, add salt and pepper and coat it in the flour. Shake off excess of the flour. Now in the same pan in which mushrooms were cooked add olive oil and heat it. When oil is heated up properly add chicken in the oil and fry it until it becomes brown in color.

Take care that you don’t burn the flour on the chicken, to avoid it cook chicken on a medium heat and put chicken in less amount in the pan, don’t overcrowd the pan. Cook for only 2 minutes. Now put the chicken in a plate and set aside. Your chicken would not be completely cooked till now. Now add sherry in the pan and boil it. Add chicken broth and boil it in the same pan with sherry. Now add chicken in the pan, be sure the at chicken comes in only one layer at the bottom of the pan and boil it. Now simmer the gas and cook for 5-8 minutes, covered. Now pour tomato and mushroom mixture over the chicken, stir it. Add cream over it and stir it so that cream mixes up with the chicken. Now sprinkle 2 tbsp. of basil and cook it for 5-6 minutes on simmer. Serve it with rice or pasta

Number of servings: 6