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The Essen Recipes tutorial pairs mushrooms and white wine with a creamy finish, as viewers recall dinners worth making again.

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The Most Delicious French Chicken Recipe! Try Making It Like This!

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0:00Season thighs and drumsticks with salt, pepper, garlic powder and olive oil.
0:20Brown the thighs in butter, then brown the drumsticks separately and set the chicken aside.
1:42Cook onion in the pan fat, then add mushrooms, bay leaves, thyme, garlic and flour.
3:27Add Chardonnay and chicken stock to make the sauce.
4:00Return the chicken and its juices, then simmer first covered and then uncovered.
4:30Finish with heavy cream, seasoning and nutmeg; the mashed-potato serving follows at 04:53.

Butter goes into the pan before the chicken, and Sophie takes her time browning the thighs and drumsticks separately. Her French-style chicken fricassee begins with frying, but finishes with a long simmer among mushrooms, herbs and white wine.

The Essen Recipes upload has picked up about 227,000 views in a day, more than six times its usual daily pace. Published on Monday, it is drawing that burst of attention while Sophie's next dinner, Swedish meatballs in creamy gravy, is already on the channel.

Despite the superlative in the title, "The Most Delicious French Chicken Recipe! Try Making It Like This!", the method is built around familiar ingredients. Onion cooks in the chicken's pan fat, followed by button mushrooms, bay leaves and thyme. Flour helps thicken the Chardonnay-and-stock sauce; cream and a pinch of nutmeg come near the end. Sophie serves the finished chicken over mashed potatoes.

The comments supply a little dinner-table history. One viewer remembers searching for a dish like this after trying it at a bed-and-breakfast in Savannah, Georgia. Another picks mashed potatoes specifically to catch the sauce, while a third imagines adapting the preparation for a slow cooker when the weather changes. Sophie's final plate has already answered the side-dish question.

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What viewers say

I have been searching for this recipe for a long time. Years ago, I tried it at some B&B hotel in Savannah, Georgia. It looks great!
@Elena-mk6bfSee it on YouTube
Oh, this brings back memories of those wonderful, comforting meals where everyone gathers around the table and nobody is in a hurry to leave. 😊 I love the combination of mushrooms, thyme and white wine, and that creamy sauce looks absolutely delicious! I think I'd go with mashed potatoes just to make sure not a drop of that sauce goes to waste. Beautiful recipe! 👏
@thetastycinemaSee it on YouTube
That looks good,will make when the weather changes,precook everything the finish in the slow cooker. Ah,the aroma....
@sthompson4049See it on YouTube

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It looks delicious; I’ll definitely make it. Thanks for sharing.
@Elicooking1See it on YouTube
Beautiful dish. Thank you.
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