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ckickum and dumplings

>>6495136
i just cooked 3 chicken breasts last night. i cut them into strips and baked dorito crusted fingers. it sucked; all the flavor came out of the doritos somehow

>>6495136

Between two sheets of wax paper, whack the breasts flat, dredge in flour/salt/pepper, cook a couple minutes per side in olive oil + butter. Remove to warm plate in oven. Deglaze pan, reduce liquid, add capers and lemon juice, put sauce over chicken and serve. You're welcome.

>>6495136

Marinade, stuff or wrap them before baking. Or say fuck it and do all three of those things. I would stuff the chicken with garlic, sage and butter, and wrap it in parma ham, bacon, or something similarly salty. Then serve with some nicely prepared greens.

>>6495250

shit, that sounds delicious. Need to get some cooking white wine to deglaze with first though. Probably quick steam some brussel sprouts with it too.

Thanks, anon.

>>6495136
Fry them with a tiny bit of butter, serve over risotto, pour a glass of wine. Enjoy

>>6495259
>cooking white wine
really? Is this a thing?

>>6495272

Yeah, it's just cheap wine that they bottle in smaller sizes.

>>6495272
I dont know but i do know you want to use regular wine and never any cooking alchohol. All they do is add a shit ton of salt to it

>>6495272
probably, but there's no reason whatsoever not to just use the real thing.

>>6495276

Really? I just use it because I don't drink wine and I found it easier than buying a whole bottle when I needed it.

>>6495281
How is it easier? Wine keeps just fine, and you can actually get a better result from the real thing most of the time.

>>6495275
I never knew this.
If you use a normal wine you can deglaze the pan and then get drunk. Just like the Master!

>>6495322

I'm a weirdo who doesn't hardly drink at all.

Like, I'll maybe have one drink a month, when I'm out with friends.

>>6495136
>casserole
never
ever
do this

Especially not with chicken breast. You'll dry that shit out more than the mojave.

>>6495275
Rule of thumb: never cook with wine you wouldn't drink.

>>6495239
try breading with crumbs and then sprinkling cheese on top.

>>6495394
>never cook with wine you wouldn't drink.
I agree with this to the extent that you shouldn't use shitty salt-added 'cooking wine' that you would probably throw up if you tried to drink. They add stuff to that to be able to legally sell it separately from drinking alcohol.

But some people seem to think this saying means 'only cook with nice/expensive wine' which I don't really agree with... you can use fuckin' Barefoot or whatever, just don't use 'cooking wine'. I don't think the subtleties of expensive wine really matter much when you're just using it to deglaze a pan.

>>6495440
>But some people seem to think this saying means 'only cook with nice/expensive wine' which I don't really agree with... you can use fuckin' Barefoot or whatever, just don't use 'cooking wine'. I don't think the subtleties of expensive wine really matter much when you're just using it to deglaze a pan.
I also agree with this statement. I was more saying that because of the toxic cooking wine. I made beurre blanc with barefoot the other day, and regularly use whatever that one with the kangaroo is.

If I find myself at trader joe's, I load up on 3 buck chuck. Makes a decent sangria and is perfect for cooking.

>>6495440
>>6495456

I don't see the point in cooking with super-fancy wine either, but some of the cheap brands can be awful when cooking. If you only need a splash or something then it doesn't matter all that much but if you need to, say, reduce a bottle down to make sauce then you need to start with something halfway decent unless you want a foul-tasting sauce. It too me a lot of trial-and-error to find a reasonably priced white wine that didn't taste like turpentine after reducing it.

>>6495468
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>>6495394
My parents heard this and now only cook with Cakebread. Breaks my heart every time I see it go in the pan.