My mom is one of those women who doesn't have a lot of time to cook, so as a kid I never had chicken a la king. I DID, however, have turkey a la king, which was what my mom made 3-4 days after thanksgiving when everybody got tired of eating turkey sandwiches for dinner every night. She made it with condensed cream of mushroom soup, and served it on toast. I'm sure your method is better for you health and taste-wise, but that's a cherished childhood memory of mine. Thanks, Chef John!
My mom used to make this all the time when I was little! I forgot about it until I ate it again as a teenager and instantly recognized the flavor. This dish is basically my definition of homemade comfort food. Thanks for the recipe, Chef John!
More classics like this please. Salisbury steaks....chicken croquettes .....tuna noodle casserole, love them all, great memories...with the exception of the Jello mold atrocities that is.
I have it on good authority that there is a secretive sect of people allergic to cayenne pepper that have banded together and subscribed to Chef John's channel with the sole purpose of disliking every video he puts out as fast as they can manage. What does that mean to the rest of us? Nothing. Nothing at all. Because we still love Chef John and his work anyway. =)
sir, you are my hero. I haven't had chicken a la king in years and what I had years ago was simply something you boiled in a bag and put on toast. Never had it home or even restaurant made. This tastes exactly as I expected and it makes me so happy to have this dish "again" and "for the first time."
In Germany we basicly have the same thing, chicken ragout, minus the peppers. I usually cook a chicken soup and use the chicken and soup for the ragout, leftover soup can be eaten during the week, also i eat it with egg-noodles.
27 yo guy here who always end up watching the foodnetwork when nothing else is on tv (for years btw) but never actually started cooking until I started watching you. love your videos for a plethora of reasons. keep up the good work sir. and thank you.
Huge fan Chef John! Watching your videos over the past year has greatly improved my skills in the kitchen, but more importantly my dry sarcastic humor! Keep it up!
When I was growing up, sometimes my dad would bring home extra MREs from work. Chicken a la King was one of the menu items that you could get in those days (the early 90's) and I remember that it was my favorite. As much as I loved that version, I can only imagine your recipe is light years better than what I grew up eating since it's made with real food. I will be making this sometime soon.
So flavorful! My mom used to serve it over cooked noodles. I noticed that he puts the chicken in last which is correct. Most probably know, but you should never boil cooked meat, just heat it to a slight simmer and remove from heat. I have found that boiling cooked meat ruins the flavor.
Thank you, Chef. The timing of this video could not have been better for me. I was considering a stir fry over rice with some left-over chicken and bell peppers, but the "a la king" is now the thing!
"You do what you gotta do".....lol...I just adore the way you chat along to those of us watching during your recipe demonstrations. Yours are amongst some of the best I`ve seen, the food of course is good (and being from the UK I`d never thought of American food being good, I`d thought more of it being fast food...I`d seen some American recipes where everything came out of a can or a jar!) but your slight comedic effect is just so entertaining. I sometimes whizz on with recipes and find myself muttering under my breath "just get ON with it will you!" but am happy to watch the whole of yours as you manage to entertain whilst still `getting right down to the bones of it` if you catch my drift. Anyway Chef John...I`m impressed....and it takes a lot to impress me. Can I ask, do you always speak in this style, the uplift at the end of a sentence and the sing song quality? Or is it just when you are filming /cooking....it doesn`t grate as I had thought it would....I`m just curious. Thanks for some splendid recipes and making it so easy peasy too!
Your videos always have at least one of those moments, where I just can't help myself but to minimize the full screen and gently click that thumbs up. Have anyone ever concidered you to be a comedic mastermind?
Thank You!! it looks a lot better than the "boil in the bag" thing my mom served me in the 1970's, anything instant or boil in the bag she would make. I am going to try this and serve it to my mom (she's 78 years old today). and show her what she was missing. I do all her cooking now and I try to make better tasting things that she served mehealthier also but sometimes its hard. thanks I ENjoy your vlog....
Chicken a la King (or what we called it) is such a comfort food for me. We often had it when I was a kid. But I would say that our family version was more of a "chicken a la kitchen sink" as we used it to use up not just chicken but any veggies we had in the house. Sometimes we even added cheese because, well American and, well cheese.
Chef, you have THE best cooking channel I have yet to see on RUclips. I absolutely love to go to my parents' on football Sunday, and cook them one of your down-home, stick to your rib recipes like this one here. That is one of my greatest pleasures in life, really. Thank you for all the awesome videos!
Oh man, I love chicken a la king. My Nana used to make it for me and serve it on english muffins. So bomb. Squirrel season just opened in Cali. Im going to try this recipe with squirrel meat.
I love your channel and watch all the time! I have a recipe request. I was in New Orleans for work and had the most incredible charbroiled oysters from Dragos. They were smokey, buttery, and nutty.Decadence at the highest level. I challenge you to do it (partly because I know you would do an awesome job and selfishy so I can make it for myself... I mean for my family) Cheers!
Chef John, re taters and Dreyfus, this MEANS something! :) But back in the day what --I-- remember Chicken A La King being served on in restaurants, on TV, and even by home chefs who had a good bakery nearby (and they all did and all did make these) were these crunchy puff-pastry cups--flat wafer bottom, multiple rings to make the cup. Remember THOSE blasts from the past?
You mentioned the wooden spatula with the hole in it! After I commented about it in the last video! This is the best day ever. Apart from the fact you still haven't told us the story... I'm starting to believe that you just made up that there is a story just so I'll keep coming back and watching your videos until you reveal the mysteries behind this utensil.
"And we are going to need a little touch o butter" - Proceeds to litteraly add a WHOLE SLAB OF FREAKING BUTTER. I seriously had to stop the video to laugh. I love this video.
Hey Chef John! Can we get a video about how you make these amazing dishes? Like how you position your camera(s) and a tour of your Kitchen? That would be interesting!... (At least for me anyways) ^_^
I've never cared for this dish but my father loves it, his Nana used to make it for him when he was little. I'll have to make this soon, I can only hope that this recipe will have less sodium than the cans my father currently buys.
There served this at lunch with turkey at my school during thanksgiving, they put it on top of mash potatoes :) Even though it was school lunch, it was pretty good.
I'm not american and I wouldn't be surprised if someone named a dish after Don King. My stepdads uncle won the olympic sky jump for the GDR in the 60s or 70s and there were restaurants in Austria that named food after him.
Love your channel been a fan for awhile👍👍👍👍 ignore the hatersI love how you make jokes and simplify the cooking process . Main reason I subscribed was because you put a smile on my face and I love your voice😜👍👍👍👍👍 A big shout out from Chicago🍷🍺
Check out the recipe: www.allrecipes.com/Recipe/255588/Chef-Johns-Chicken-a-la-King/
My mom is one of those women who doesn't have a lot of time to cook, so as a kid I never had chicken a la king. I DID, however, have turkey a la king, which was what my mom made 3-4 days after thanksgiving when everybody got tired of eating turkey sandwiches for dinner every night. She made it with condensed cream of mushroom soup, and served it on toast. I'm sure your method is better for you health and taste-wise, but that's a cherished childhood memory of mine. Thanks, Chef John!
"A little touch of butter" I laughed way too hard when I saw that stick of butter
Ikr...
Lol.. Agree!
Jaques Pepin does that too. "And add a couple tablespoons of cream..." ***GLUG GLUG GLUG***
Looks like when I make an omelet
"Just a nob of buttah" -Gordon Ramsay dumping butter sticks into a pot
"add a little touch of butter"... proceeds to unload a Brick! i lost it there 😂😂
so did i! haha gotta love chef john and his humour! he is the best!
I always listen to chef John when I can't fall asleep. His voice is so pleasant and soothing! ❤️
Ah yes, the spoonula, one of the few kitchen implements with the charisma to inspire loyalty.
Flaky buttermilk biscuits. It is the ultimate Ala King carb.
🖒🖒🖒
Agreed
Chef John's voice is so relaxing and speaking style so soothing it leaves me in a comforting embrace just as much as the meals he makes.
My mom used to make this all the time when I was little! I forgot about it until I ate it again as a teenager and instantly recognized the flavor. This dish is basically my definition of homemade comfort food. Thanks for the recipe, Chef John!
More classics like this please. Salisbury steaks....chicken croquettes .....tuna noodle casserole, love them all, great memories...with the exception of the Jello mold atrocities that is.
I have it on good authority that there is a secretive sect of people allergic to cayenne pepper that have banded together and subscribed to Chef John's channel with the sole purpose of disliking every video he puts out as fast as they can manage. What does that mean to the rest of us? Nothing. Nothing at all. Because we still love Chef John and his work anyway. =)
sir, you are my hero. I haven't had chicken a la king in years and what I had years ago was simply something you boiled in a bag and put on toast. Never had it home or even restaurant made. This tastes exactly as I expected and it makes me so happy to have this dish "again" and "for the first time."
In Germany we basicly have the same thing, chicken ragout, minus the peppers. I usually cook a chicken soup and use the chicken and soup for the ragout, leftover soup can be eaten during the week, also i eat it with egg-noodles.
27 yo guy here who always end up watching the foodnetwork when nothing else is on tv (for years btw) but never actually started cooking until I started watching you. love your videos for a plethora of reasons. keep up the good work sir. and thank you.
My mom makes this for my birthday every year, except it's on puff pastry... So good! This recipe is almost exactly like hers!
NIGELLA!!!!! She's the reason I started cooking! Love your videos. Thank you.
I'm a food wisher :-) loved when you mentioned nigella lawson
me too.
Huge fan Chef John! Watching your videos over the past year has greatly improved my skills in the kitchen, but more importantly my dry sarcastic humor! Keep it up!
When I was growing up, sometimes my dad would bring home extra MREs from work. Chicken a la King was one of the menu items that you could get in those days (the early 90's) and I remember that it was my favorite. As much as I loved that version, I can only imagine your recipe is light years better than what I grew up eating since it's made with real food. I will be making this sometime soon.
While I don't know what your MRE version was served with, I second the notion that Chicken a la King goes very, very well with mashed potatoes.
So flavorful! My mom used to serve it over cooked noodles. I noticed that he puts the chicken in last which is correct. Most probably know, but you should never boil cooked meat, just heat it to a slight simmer and remove from heat. I have found that boiling cooked meat ruins the flavor.
Thank you, Chef. The timing of this video could not have been better for me. I was considering a stir fry over rice with some left-over chicken and bell peppers, but the "a la king" is now the thing!
Looks great chef John! And thanks, I love it when you give us your spin on the simple, comfortable classics.
Hahahahahaha "I went Close Encounters on this thing" friggin awesome
I'm glad you set the record straight. After making this so many confusing ways, this looks best. Thanks Chef John for another great dish
By far the funniest and most talented chef on RUclips! Chef John, I love you... that is all. You are free to move about the building, lol
I always love the pun/rhymes in these vids but "You are the Richard Dreyfuss of what suffices" is next level. Well done sir!
Man chef john's comedic chops never cease to amaze me. Saying " touch of butter" then just dumping the whole stick in made me lol
Your videos are absolute therapy.
"You do what you gotta do".....lol...I just adore the way you chat along to those of us watching during your recipe demonstrations. Yours are amongst some of the best I`ve seen, the food of course is good (and being from the UK I`d never thought of American food being good, I`d thought more of it being fast food...I`d seen some American recipes where everything came out of a can or a jar!) but your slight comedic effect is just so entertaining. I sometimes whizz on with recipes and find myself muttering under my breath "just get ON with it will you!" but am happy to watch the whole of yours as you manage to entertain whilst still `getting right down to the bones of it` if you catch my drift. Anyway Chef John...I`m impressed....and it takes a lot to impress me.
Can I ask, do you always speak in this style, the uplift at the end of a sentence and the sing song quality? Or is it just when you are filming /cooking....it doesn`t grate as I had thought it would....I`m just curious. Thanks for some splendid recipes and making it so easy peasy too!
I absolutely love how forgiving mushrooms are, especially when I'm quite the novice cook. They're so hard to over cook I love it.
"Adding a little touch of butter"
*Proceeds to drop an entire stick*
I feel like this is perfect for mashes potatoes, so really the classic chefs should take note.
Your videos always have at least one of those moments, where I just can't help myself but to minimize the full screen and gently click that thumbs up. Have anyone ever concidered you to be a comedic mastermind?
"...and add a touch of butter." (plunks down a stick of butter) This is my kind of chef. :D
My mom use to make this for us kids on a Saturday afternoon.......Love it.....
The chicken a-la-king we had in school in the 80's was always served with mashed potato's and ours had peas in it, I loved that stuff.
I had to stop the video with "a touch of butter". That gave me the hard laughs.
Perfect for fall! I can't wait to try it, especially since Canada likes to have as many cold months as possible so fall is already here.
wish this was up before it became a much gloomy, rainy day! this wouldve been the perfect warm, comfort meal!
"You are the Richard Dreyfus of what suffices."
"A little touch of butter" Throws a stick of butter in to the pan. xd
lol
haha kurwa
"Adding a little touch of butter." THUD.
Gorgeous. This would be great filler for chicken pot pie.
Thank You!! it looks a lot better than the "boil in the bag" thing my mom served me in the 1970's, anything instant or boil in the bag she would make. I am going to try this and serve it to my mom (she's 78 years old today). and show her what she was missing. I do all her cooking now and I try to make better tasting things that she served mehealthier also but sometimes its hard. thanks I ENjoy your vlog....
Dont forget Larry King that guy was here when america was founded
lol !!!
If you skin Larry King you can make a blanket for every children in Africa.
thanks chef John! my grandma made this when I was a kid& I haven't had it in years. that's dinner tonight
Looks really good! Is this eaten over a crust or small pie shell too?
Don't chive me, man, that is like the base for chicken pot pie. Yum! Thanks Chef John--what an inspiration!
i loooooove him so much. He is such a inspiration
amazing! I love every dish you make.
"You are the Richard Dreyfuss of what suffices"... hahaha, that's one of the better ones.
I watch his videos because i love the way he talks.
Chicken a la King (or what we called it) is such a comfort food for me. We often had it when I was a kid. But I would say that our family version was more of a "chicken a la kitchen sink" as we used it to use up not just chicken but any veggies we had in the house. Sometimes we even added cheese because, well American and, well cheese.
looks so delish... i love chicken ala anything.. lol but ala king is an all time fav with my kids!!
Chef, you have THE best cooking channel I have yet to see on RUclips. I absolutely love to go to my parents' on football Sunday, and cook them one of your down-home, stick to your rib recipes like this one here. That is one of my greatest pleasures in life, really. Thank you for all the awesome videos!
The Richard Dryfus reference at the end... you kill me, chef. :D
Oh man, I love chicken a la king. My Nana used to make it for me and serve it on english muffins. So bomb. Squirrel season just opened in Cali. Im going to try this recipe with squirrel meat.
Haven't had this in years, definitely adding this recipe to my repertoire.
I love their recipes, they are incredible. You can do some recipe from Brazil?
I love the "touch" of butter! I actually laughed so hard I snorted! Well versed Chef, well versed.
My mother used to make this and serve over cornbread. Delicious
I love your channel and watch all the time! I have a recipe request. I was in New Orleans for work and had the most incredible charbroiled oysters from Dragos. They were smokey, buttery, and nutty.Decadence at the highest level. I challenge you to do it (partly because I know you would do an awesome job and selfishy so I can make it for myself... I mean for my family) Cheers!
"Add a little touch of butter ", adds a brick of butter hahaha
Chef J you're killin' it.
So hungry now after watching this 🍽🍷
Another great video! Thanks Chef John!
NICE! Subscribing to this channel is something I do not regret at all ! Great job chef John !
I love this channel! I'm going to make this stuff this fall for sure but, I'm doing mine with gizzards and chicken!
That was a very "shy" touch of butter, LOL! Actually, I gasped. 😂😂😂
Chef John, re taters and Dreyfus, this MEANS something! :) But back in the day what --I-- remember Chicken A La King being served on in restaurants, on TV, and even by home chefs who had a good bakery nearby (and they all did and all did make these) were these crunchy puff-pastry cups--flat wafer bottom, multiple rings to make the cup. Remember THOSE blasts from the past?
I love it over potatoes ☺ that looks so good!
You mentioned the wooden spatula with the hole in it! After I commented about it in the last video! This is the best day ever. Apart from the fact you still haven't told us the story... I'm starting to believe that you just made up that there is a story just so I'll keep coming back and watching your videos until you reveal the mysteries behind this utensil.
that looks so delicious do you have to add mushrooms I do not like mushrooms.
when he added the butter I died
+10 respect points for mentioning the always beautiful Nigella Lawson *swoons* 😍
"And we are going to need a little touch o butter" - Proceeds to litteraly add a WHOLE SLAB OF FREAKING BUTTER. I seriously had to stop the video to laugh. I love this video.
Wow! Chef John you are great 😊
Hey Chef John! Can we get a video about how you make these amazing dishes? Like how you position your camera(s) and a tour of your Kitchen? That would be interesting!... (At least for me anyways) ^_^
Thanks for the awesome recipe Chef John!
This is the ultimate comfort food dish.
YUMMMM love Chicken à la King!!!
I've never cared for this dish but my father loves it, his Nana used to make it for him when he was little. I'll have to make this soon, I can only hope that this recipe will have less sodium than the cans my father currently buys.
That looks really good!
Love the potato slant. I'm gonna try baked mashed potatoes. They give a more complex flavor profile.
Love Love Love Nigella Lawson!
There served this at lunch with turkey at my school during thanksgiving, they put it on top of mash potatoes :)
Even though it was school lunch, it was pretty good.
whoever has disliked this video is a sad and lonely human
Agreed! Seriously!
there are 2 now, maybe they can become friends?
Probably a vegan.
It's cuz they're not loyal to their spoonula like Jon is.
They hate chef John because he makes them hungry at 2am.
Chef John, how do I know if the thyme is tough? I need to know if I should use regular or Italian parsley...
For carb we use a 'vol au vent' a light butter pastry with a top that comes off so you can fill it with your 'a la king'
Lovely...thank you Chef. I'm going to make this.❤️
Better one liner chef john, you are the yao ming of this chicken a la king
chef John, I made your parmesomlet and it was delicious!
I'm not american and I wouldn't be surprised if someone named a dish after Don King. My stepdads uncle won the olympic sky jump for the GDR in the 60s or 70s and there were restaurants in Austria that named food after him.
OH THAT LOOKS SO GOOD, THANK YOU FOR SHARING.
This one i've gotta try!
Love your channel been a fan for awhile👍👍👍👍 ignore the hatersI love how you make jokes and simplify the cooking process . Main reason I subscribed was because you put a smile on my face and I love your voice😜👍👍👍👍👍 A big shout out from Chicago🍷🍺
Great post! I just smile while I watch your channel!
Definitely will be doing this.
Will be making this soon! I've been looking for a noodle free dish. And mashed potatoes is a great idea!
When he put the butter in, I literally started crying from laughter.