This particular recipe features the moist, slightly spicy chicken base, with a creamy mushroom sauce and crisp asparagus stalks to create a crowd-pleasing meal that looks as good as it tastes. And as a Cheesecake Factory fan, I just had to try it myself. Here's what I discovered while making this copycat dish at home—plus, why some careful planning is involved. Related: The Cheesecake Factory Is Adding 14 New Menu Items, and Choosing Just One Won’t Be Easy
Chicken Madeira is different from chicken Marsala, although they have a few things in common. Chicken Marsala also features pan-seared chicken breasts and a mushroom sauce, but this dish relies on Marsala wine instead of Madeira wine. Plus, the overall flavor is slightly more umami, while Chicken Madeira has a subtle sweetness.
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Ingredients Needed for Copycat Chicken Madeira
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How To Make Copycat Chicken Madeira at Home
To start, combine the chicken broth, beef broth, chicken bouillon cube, heavy cream, Worcestershire sauce, onion powder and mustard powder in a large measuring cup with a spout. Set it aside.
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Then, move on to your chicken. Slice the breasts in half lengthwise to create thinner slices. Cover them in plastic wrap and use a meat mallet to pound them to 1/2 inch thick. Pat them dry, season each side with salt and pepper and sprinkle a combination of garlic powder and flour over each side.
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Heat olive oil in a large skillet and sear your chicken in batches, cooking them for four to five minutes on each side. Set that aside.
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Add butter and garlic to the pan and cook for two minutes. Add Madeira wine, followed by the mushrooms. Bring the sauce to a gentle bubble and reduce it by half, cooking it for about 13 minutes. (Preheat your oven to 400 degrees at this point.)
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Plate your chicken, asparagus and sauce, and sprinkle mozzarella cheese on top. Set the heat to medium-low, cover the pan and heat it until the cheese is melted. Another option: Place the dish in the oven for a few minutes to melt the cheese. Serve warm.
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Chicken Madeira: My Honest Thoughts on the Copycat Recipe
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That said, this isn't the fastest meal you can make and there's a lot happening at once. If you're wiped out from a busy workday and just want to eat already, this is probably not the dish for you.
I also had trouble melting the cheese just right. The recipe gives the option of heating the chicken in the oven or essentially steaming it in the sauce, but the chicken got overcooked when I went the steaming route, and the sauce started burning in the pan when I put it in the oven to try to melt the cheese. Ultimately, I plated the chicken, put that plate on a pan and placed that in the oven. Even then, I couldn't get a perfectly melted mozzarella topping, but I wasn't mad about it.
Overall, though, this is an excellent recipe that I'll be happy to make again.
4 Final Takeaways
Here are a few tips and tricks I learned while making the recipe myself.
2. Consider prepping some things in advance
If you want to make this on a weeknight, there's plenty of prep work you could do ahead of time, like grating your cheese and cutting and flattening your chicken.
4. Consider other vegetables
Asparagus can be tough to find when it's not in season. So, either consider using frozen asparagus or popping in a fellow tasty green vegetable, like broccoli.
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