Roast Chicken Supreme with Tarragon Sauce

This roast chicken supreme is the ultimate treat for chicken lovers, with a white wine and cream tarragon sauce and crisp butter skin.

Great for a celebratory meal, or a quick alternative when you crave roast chicken, this recipe won't disappoint.

So easy to make in around 25 minutes too.

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• ❤️ Why you will love this recipe
• 🥘 Ingredients
• 🍽 Equipment
• 🔪 Instructions
• ⏲️ Cooking Time
• 🥗 Serve with
• 🥙 Substitutions
• 📖 Variations
• 🍣 Storage
• 📋 Recipe
• Chicken and Turkey
• 💬 Comments

❤️ Why you will love this recipe

• Ready in 25 minutes.
• Easy to make.
• Moist chicken with a crispy skin.
• Perfect for a special occasion or dinner party.

🤔FAQs

I really love crispy chicken skin, so a whole roast chicken always goes down well with me and I can't resist the breast when its roasted.

So, when you crave proper roast chicken but don't have time to cook a whole bird, this dish makes a delicious change.

Supermarkets typically sell chicken breast without skin, so you will need to get chicken supremes from a butcher and the free range ones seem to be huge, (about 350 grams or 12 ounces), so depending on your family, one chicken supreme could feed two.

The sauce uses the buttery pan juices, wine, stock, cream and tarragon, so it's rich and tasty. Perfect for dunking crispy roast potatoes in as well as the chicken.

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🥘 Ingredients

• Chicken supremes - ideally free range as the taste is far superior. Many online retailers sell supremes.
• Cream - double or heavy cream.
• Wine - use any dry white wine that you would drink with a meal.

The recipe card with ingredient quantities and detailed instructions can be found at the bottom of the post.

🍽 Equipment

• Sharp knife
• Chopping board
• Oven proof frying pan/skillet

🔪 Instructions

Preheat the oven to Preheat the oven to 190 C / 375 F / 170 FAN / Gas 5.

Bring the meat to room temperature and dry with kitchen paper.

Season the skin with flaked sea salt and white pepper.

Heat the butter in the pan over a medium to high heat. Place the chicken supremes in the pan skin side down and leave for a about 5 minutes or until the skin is golden.

Turn the chicken then cook for a further minute.

⏲️ Cooking Time

Return the chicken skin side up in the pan and place in the oven for about 15 minutes.

💭 Top Tip

• The internal temperature should be 74 degrees C when the chicken is cooked. Alternatively, poke a skewer into the middle of the thickest part then remove and the juices should run clear when it's cooked.

Remove the chicken from the pan and place somewhere warm to rest while you make the sauce.

Remove the leaves from a sprig of tarragon and chop.

Deglaze the pan with the wine over a medium heat, scraping any residue from the bottom of the pan.

Stir in the flour and add the stock, stirring until thickened.

Add the cream and tarragon and heat the sauce through without boiling.

Serve the roast chicken supreme with plenty of sauce.

🥗 Serve with

• Leeks in White Sauce
• Honey Roast Carrots and Parsnips
• Fried Cabbage with Bacon
• Roast Savoy Cabbage
• Whole Baked Cauliflower Cheese
• Roasted Green Beans and Carrots
• Roasted Long Stem Broccoli
• Roasted Swede Chips
• Rosemary Garlic Mashed Potatoes
• Honey Roast Chantenay Carrots
• Pork Stuffing
• Parmentier Potatoes
  
  

🥙 Substitutions

• Chicken supremes - use skin on chicken thighs or skinless chicken breast. You may need to adjust the cooking time for thighs and cover the breast when cooking so that they don't dry out.
• Fresh tarragon - use a teaspoon of dried tarragon.
• White wine - use an equal amount of chicken stock instead.
• Cream - for a tangier sauce, stir in some crème fraiche

📖 Variations

• Vegetables - before deglazing the pan, add some button or sliced mushrooms or finely sliced leeks and cook in the pan juices. Or, rehydrate some dried porcini mushrooms and add with the stock.

🍣 Storage

• Refrigerator - cool cover and use within 3 days.
• Freezer - due to the cream, this dish isn't suitable for freezing.
• Reheating - over a gentle heat on the hob.

More chicken ideas

• Chicken Sausage Rolls
• Balmoral Chicken
• Crispy BBQ Chicken Wings
• Devilled Chicken
• Slow Cooker Turkey Crown
• Turkey and Ham Pie
• Turkey Pithivier
• Chicken and Bacon Soup
• Coronation Chicken Sandwich
• Philadelphia Chicken

📋 Recipe

🍲Food Safety

• Do not use the same utensils on cooked food, that previously touched raw meat.
• Wash hands after touching raw meat.
• Don't leave food sitting out at room temperature for extended periods.
• Never leave cooking food unattended.
• Use oils with high smoking point to avoid harmful compounds.
• Always have good ventilation when using gas.

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