Creamy Chicken Mushroom

I was dreaming of a creamy chicken mushroom dish the other day, and thought I’d try my hand at creating a dairy-free version. This recipe is the end result! Comfort food, you can enjoy guilt-free :) 

Ingredients:

• 800g chicken thigh fillets, chopped into chunks
• 2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 onion peeled and finely diced
• 3 cloves garlic peeled and minced
• 3 celery stalks, sliced into small piece
• 500g mushrooms thickly sliced 
• 2 cups chicken broth/stock
• 1 can coconut cream
• 2 tbsp freshly squeezed lemon juice (approx. 1 lemon)
• 1 tbsp fresh rosemary
• ½ tsp salt
• ½ tsp pepper
• 2 tbsp arrowroot powder mixed with 5 tbsp cold water – to make a slurry
• Cooked brown rice, to serve

INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Heat the oil over a high heat in a large frying pan and add the chicken, onion & garlic. Brown all over (it doesn't need to be cooked through at this point).
2. Add celery and mushrooms & panfry until starting to soften.
3. Add chicken stock/broth, coconut cream, lemon juice, rosemary and salt and pepper, and bring to the boil.
4. Once boiling, turn down to med heat. Mix in the arrowroot + water slurry, and simmer for 15minutes or until sauce thickens.
5. Serve with cooked rice.

Approved for: Adrenal Diet, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free

Chris & Filipa Bellette are the Founders of multi award-winning health practice Chris & Filly Functional Medicine, which is best known for ending body burnout (for good!) in “busy” people with energy, mood and gut issues. They have worked with over 2,000+ burned-out clients in the past combined 25+ years, with their own passion for ending body burnout coming from their own personal experience of body, mind, family & business breakdown, after a prolonged period of physical and mental stress.

Filipa is an accredited Clinical Nutritionist, Functional Medicine Practitioner, Coach & Trauma Therapist. She is also a Ph.D. Scholar, author & regularly featured the media, such as Forbes, Body+Soul and The Daily Telegraph. Chris is a Burnout Recovery Coach & an accredited Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP) Master Practitioner, with a Bachelor of Human Movement Science. He has existed in high-performance realms of the sporting (think national athlete) & business industries and knows what it takes to get out of hustle-and-grind culture to thriving. 

They were recently awarded as the Tasmanian State Winner & National Finalist for the Telstra Best of Business Awards 2022, and Winner of the Australian Women’s Small Business Champion Awards 2022.