Chicken Swiss Extraordinaire
Decadent Chicken Goodness
My aunt has been talking about this recipe for Chicken Swiss Extraordinaire for years. It was the first recipe she made for my uncle on their one year wedding anniversary.
It has now been over 40 years and it is still a recipe that she makes to this day. Does that means it’s guaranteed to ensure a happy lifelong relationship? Well I can’t make any promises but the evidence is clear!
I was visiting for a few days and I asked her to show me how she makes this Chicken Swiss Extraordinaire.
Boy was it delicious!
It is a very simple recipe that requires minimal ingredients and it has such great flavor. It is perfect for special occasions but it is also so simple to make that it can be a quick and easy weeknight meal.
The recipe below serves 6 and this dish also makes great leftovers. A full, printable recipe is at the bottom of this post.
The ingredients for the Swiss Chicken Extraordinaire are on a printable recipe card below. Just remember that you want your cheese thick and your chicken breasts thin.
Feel free to double up slices or cut breasts in half, respectively, if you feel it’s needed.
The full instructions are also located on the printable recipe card. It’s relatively simple but there are multiple moving pieces between the bread, the chicken, and the sauce so you should read the recipe card carefully in advance and set up your cooking station beforehand so you can do everything as easily and efficiently as possible.
*Pro Tip: you can adjust the thickness or thinness of your mushroom sauce by adding more wine to thin it out or make a slurry with a little flour and wine to thicken it if your sauce is too thin.
**Super Pro Tip: If you do not want to use wine, you can use chicken broth and a little Worcestershire sauce instead.
I can see why this dish has been a favorite of my aunt and uncle for the last 40+ years. It was so full of flavor and fancy enough for a special occasion but fast enough for a quick weeknight meal.
I think it will be a family favorite of yours as well! Maybe you’ll even get 40 years of happy marriage out of it!
Chicken Swiss Extraordinaire
A simple, yet elegant and affordable dinner for special occasions that is easy enough for a weeknight.
Ingredients
- 6 thinly sliced chicken breasts
- 6 thicker slices of Swiss cheese or 12 thinner slices and double up
- 6 thick slices of a crusty french bread, about 2 inches thick
- 3 Cups of sliced mushroom
- Butter & Olive Oil
- Salt, Pepper, Garlic Powder
- About 2 Cups of Flour
- 2/3 C of White Wine + a little more to adjust the gravy
Instructions
- Place the slices of bread on a cookie sheet and top with the Swiss cheese. Heat your oven to 200 degrees and when you start cooking your chicken, place the Swiss topped bread in the oven.
- Take your flour and spread it onto a plate and season with the salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Adjust the seasoning to your taste. You can add more when you are cooking if you would like it to be more seasoned.
- Take your chicken breasts and dredge them well on all sides with the flour mixture, making sure that the entire breast is coated.
- In a skillet, add a couple of tablespoons of butter and olive oil and let it get hot.
- Add the chicken to the skillet. You do not want to crowd the skillet, so you may have to cook these in batches.
- Let the chicken fry up until golden brown before flipping to the other side. Try not to mess with the chicken too much as it cooks so that the flour mixture stays on the chicken.
- When all your chicken is golden brown, remove from the pan to a plate, add more butter to the same pan and saute the mushrooms until your desired level of cooked.
- When the mushrooms are golden brown, add your wine and use your spatula to scrape up all the meaty bits from the bottom. Let the mushrooms simmer in the wine for a couple of minutes and then add the chicken back to the skillet and let it cook for about 10 minutes. Check to make sure your chicken is cooked all the way through.
- Keep an eye on your baking bread slices, you want it crispy but not too overdone.
- Remove the bread slices from the oven. Top each one with a chicken breast and some of the mushroom wine sauce.
- If you like, you can sprinkle with more salt and pepper and dried parsley before serving.
For a less formal but still amazing chicken recipe, try these Pancake Battered Chicken Tenders!
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