Chicken Marsala is easy to prepare and looks and tastes fancy like it came from a restaurant. It is a delicious lightly breaded chicken breast covered in a rich, creamy mushroom sauce.
Some of my other favorite dishes to prefer if I am looking for something a bit fancier includes this delicious Artichoke Chicken along with Grilled Marinated Flank Steak with Chimichurri Sauce. These Smothered Pork Chops are also a favorite for entertaining.
Easy Chicken Marsala
Chicken Marsala is a recipe you will often find on restaurant menus. It looks fancy and tastes fancy but it is so easy to make at home. It is perfect a weeknight family dinner or or to serve to guests!
What is Chicken Marsala?
Traditionally an Italian American dish, Chicken Marsala is made with a thin chicken cutlet. The chicken is lightly breaded with flour and seasoning and pan fried. A rich and flavorful sauce of mushrooms and Marsala wine is put on top.
If you are not a wine drinker and don’t have wine in the house, like myself, just use additional chicken broth in place of the Marsala Wine. Substituting broth for the wine will change the flavor and complexity of the dish a little but it will still be delicious. I usually have cooking sherry in the house so I do use that along with the chicken broth. Cooking sherry is found with the other vinegars.
How to Make Marsala Chicken
- Chicken. I use boneless, skinless chicken breasts and pound them into thin cutlets. You want the chicken to be even in thickness to ensure even cooking. This allows the chicken to cook quickly and not allow the thinner parts of the chicken to dry out while the thicker parts are still cooking. You get a nice evenly cooked chicken breasts.
- Liquid. The recipe calls for a combination of chicken broth, cooking sherry and Marsala wine. As I mentioned above, I don’t keep wine in the house so I just substitute chicken broth for the Marsala wine. If you don’t have cooking sherry you can substitute a red wine vinegar.
- Mushrooms. I am not a big mushroom fan so usually pick them out but my husband loves them. I just use the basic white mushrooms you find in the grocery store but if you have a favorite mushroom, use it!
- Thickener If the sauce doesn’t thicken enough for you, create a roux using 3 Tbsp flour and 2 Tbsp of water. Mix to combine and then add into hot gravy mixture and stir until it thickens.
What to Serve with Chicken Marsala?
I served the dish with Herb rice but it would be yummy over mashed potatoes or pasta noodles. Add a delicious veggie such as Roasted Broccoli or Grilled Asparagus for a delicious and guest worthy meal.
For all of my other favorite kitchen products and tools visit my Amazon Store.
Did you know I wrote a cookbook? Check out the Holiday Slow Cooker Cookbook for 100 delicious recipes.
Other delicious chicken recipes:
Chicken Marsala Recipe
Chicken Marsala
Ingredients
- 1/4 cup flour
- 3/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp ground black pepper
- 1/2 tsp dried oregano
- 4 skinless boneless chicken breasts. Pound thin - about 1/4 inch thick
- 4 Tbsp butter
- 1-2 cloves garlic chopped
- 1 shallot chopped
- 4 Tbsp olive oil
- 1 cup sliced mushrooms
- 1/2 cup Marsala wine or additional chicken broth
- 1/4 cup cooking sherry red wine vinegar
- 1/2- 3/4 cups chicken broth
Instructions
- In a dish, combine flour, salt, pepper and oregano and dredge chicken pieces in mixture
- In a large pan, melt butter over heat and add in oil
- Saute garlic and shallots until tender
- Add in chicken and brown on both sides and cook through
- Remove chicken
- Add in mushrooms (add additional butter if needed) and saute mushrooms
- Add in wine, sherry and chicken broth
- Cover and let simmer until sauce thickens up
- If it doesn't thicken up enough for you add in some roux (mixture of water and flour) as a thickening agent
- Pour sauce over chicken and serve
Nutrition
Originally posted May 18, 2011
If you’ve tried this recipe or any other recipe on Your Homebased Mom, then don’t forget to rate the recipe and let me know how it went in the comments below, I love hearing from you!
You can also FOLLOW ME on FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM and PINTEREST to see more delicious food, party ideas and travel tips and what I’m up to on a daily basis!
Not a fan of mushrooms (won’t/don’t) eat them. Can I leave them out?
Soooooo want to try this recipe.
You can totally leave them out.
I was just wondering what you replaced the butter with?
I didn’t replace the butter. She is able to eat butter. But you could just use more oil if you needed to eliminate butter.
My Walmart has Marsala cooking wine on the aisle with vinegar etc. I can’t wait to try this recipe!!!
Cindi,
As far as the wine is concerned – I just asked the wine guy at my local grocery store for the least expensive marsala wine that is good for cooking! Hope this helps.
Tried this the other day….LOVED IT!!!!! I made this years ago and forgot about it till now…worth the time, which did not take long. My cousin even tried it and her sons did not even pick up their heads from the plate…upscale restaruant worthy…thanks a bunch…keep ’em coming.
I’ll admit it….I’ve never purchased alcohol, but I’d like to try this recipe. I went to the liquor store today to look, (really out of my element!) and they have dry sherry or sweet sherry and dry Marsala wine or sweet Marsala wine. I didn’t know what kind to get. What do you use? Thanks for any help!
Yum! This looks delicious!
Dawnelle, The Welch’s 100 grape juice is unsweetened and you should be able to find that on the juice aisle of any grocery store. Enjoy!
where do you find unsweetened red grape juice. Looking forward to making this.
I could eat it right now for breakfast. Yum!
Thanks for the great reminder on Chicken Marsala. I love this and have a recipe but kind of forget about it. I’m going to try this one as it sounds a lot easier.