Cheesy Smothered Mushroom Chicken
with Mashed Potatoes & Roasted Carrots
- Milk
Chicken and melted cheese is always a recipe for success. Chicken and melted cheese plus a rich gravy, however, is the ultimate comfort trifecta. Here, chicken is topped with an umami-packed mushroom gravy and melty Monterey Jack cheese. On the side, there’s creamy mashed potatoes and crispy roasted carrots for maximum deliciousness (and for catching any runoff sauce).
Ingredients
9 ounce
Carrot
12 ounce
Potatoes
4 tablespoon
Sour Cream
1 unit
Chicken Stock Concentrate
¼ cup
Monterey Jack Cheese
(Contains: Milk)
10 ounce
Chicken Cutlets
2 unit
Scallions
4 ounce
Button Mushrooms
Not included in your delivery
2 tablespoon (tbsp)
Butter
(Contains: Milk)
1 tablespoon (tbsp)
Cooking Oil
Nutrition Values
Utensils
Cooking Steps
• Adjust rack to top position and preheat oven to 425 degrees. Wash and dry produce. • Trim, peel, and cut carrots on a diagonal into 1-inch-thick pieces. Trim and thinly slice mushrooms. Trim and thinly slice scallions, separating whites from greens.
• Toss carrots on a baking sheet with a drizzle of oil, salt, and pepper. • Roast on top rack until tender, 25-30 minutes. • Meanwhile, dice potatoes into ½-inch pieces (peel first for a smoother texture). Place in a large pot with enough salted water to cover by 2 inches. Bring to a boil and cook until tender, 15-20 minutes. • Reserve ½ cup potato cooking liquid; drain and return potatoes to pot. Keep covered off heat until ready to mash.
• While potatoes cook, pat chicken* dry with paper towels and season all over with salt and pepper. • Heat a drizzle of oil in a large pan over medium-high heat. Add chicken and cook until browned and cooked through, 3-5 minutes per side. • Turn off heat; transfer to a plate.
• Heat pot with drained potatoes over low heat; add 1 TBSP butter (2 TBSP for 4 servings) and half the sour cream (you’ll use the rest in the next step). • Mash potatoes until smooth and creamy, adding splashes of reserved potato cooking liquid as necessary. Season with salt and pepper.
• Heat a drizzle of oil in pan used for chicken over medium-high heat. Add mushrooms and scallion whites; season with salt and pepper. Cook, stirring, until softened, 2-4 minutes. • Stir in stock concentrate and ¼ cup water (1⁄3 cup for 4 servings). Bring to a boil, then reduce to a low simmer. Cook until slightly thickened, 1-2 minutes. • Turn off heat. Stir in 1 TBSP butter and remaining sour cream until melted and combined. Season with salt and pepper.
• Heat pan with sauce over medium-low heat; add chicken and spoon sauce over top. Evenly sprinkle chicken with Monterey Jack. Cover pan until cheese melts, 1-2 minutes. • Divide chicken, carrots, and potatoes between plates. Spoon remaining sauce over chicken and potatoes. Garnish with scallion greens and serve.
Customer reviews
Review summary
Updated on Dec 2025- Flavor: Many loved the mushroom sauce, calling it delicious and flavorful; some found it a bit bland and watery.
- Ease of prep: Several noted it was easy to make, though some felt it took longer than expected or had too many steps.
- Suggestions: Consider adding extra mushrooms, thickening the sauce, and adjusting seasoning to taste for more flavor 🍲.
- Leftovers: Some found it reheated well the next day, while others felt the sauce didn't hold up overnight.
- Portions: A few mentioned small chicken pieces or not enough carrots; others found it filling and satisfying.
Reviews from our home cooks
If you love mushrooms, you will love this dish. The smothered chicken is so tasty and delicious. Love to top the mashed potatoes with the mushroom sauce. And the carrots are a perfect complement to this dish.
Tender, juicy cheesy chicken, creamy mashed potatoes, sweet carrots and flavorful mushroom sauce combined together produced a dish that elevated four simple ingredients into an easy delicious meal!
We loved the Cheesy Smothered Mushroom Chicken! So delicious and even though the recipe card wasn't included in our box, it was easy to make. Highly recommend this recipe!
The dish was well balanced, the description had me a little worried... "Cheesy Smothered Mushroom Chicken", but it was amazing. I thought the dish might be too rich, but as it turns out it was just right.
Who wouldn't love a meal named Cheesy Smothered Mushroom Chicken? It took a tiny bit more time than some of the other meals, but it was well worth it.
I love mushrooms, and this meal is seriously delicious. The mashed potatoes with that on top, and then combined with cheesy chicken. Could not be a better combo. Loved this one!
Every part of this was delicious! The cheesy finish on the chicken, the mushrooms/sauce, roasted veggies and homemade mashed potatoes. They all made for the perfect preface to Thanksgiving next week!
I honestly thought this recipe would be a little bland but I was very wrong. Loved the mushroom rich gravy and cheesy chicken goodness!
That was a delicious dinner! Tasty mushroom gravy piled on chicken and mashed potatoes with delicious roasted carrots. We loved it, would be happy to have that as a frequent go-to menu. Thank you, thank you.
The chicken on the Cheesy Smothered Mushroom Chicken was very tough - I called and reported this and was given a credit. The recipe was very tasty but someone needs to be sure the chicken is tender. It was even hard when I went to turn it in the pan, so it was the quality of the chicken. We could not eat it.
