My Mom’s Chicken Gloria brings back lots of memories. It’s a hearty dish with a creamy sherry wine sauce that I loved as a kid and now make for my own kids. When I was younger, my mom Gloria was a hard-working woman with two children. She very rarely had a lot of free time because she owned her own hair salon, but she always managed to have a home cooked meal on the table.
One of her special dishes she would make was called “Chicken Gloria”. Or “Chicken A La Gloria”. It’s a hearty chicken dish that was my favorite and has since become my children’s favorite. Since my kids are going back to school next week I asked them what they wanted me to make for dinner their first week back and they both said they wanted Chicken A La Gloria.
Directions:
Preheat oven to 350°F
Season both sides of the chicken with salt and pepper, dredge lightly in flour to coat both sides. Shake off excess.
Add oil to frying pan and brown chicken in batches on both sides. You don’t need to cook the chicken completely. It will finish cooking in the oven. Transfer the chicken to a 9×13-inch baking dish.
Add the butter to the frying pan and let it melt over medium high heat. Add mushrooms, season with salt and pepper and brown mushrooms until golden. Then add the sherry wine and cook for another minute or two. Add the creamy mushroom soup and milk and mix well.
Pour sauce over the chicken breasts, cover with foil and bake in oven for about 30 minutes. Remove from oven andtop each piece of chicken with one slice of Muenster cheese.You can fold the cheese in half if it is too wide for the breast.
Place chicken back in oven uncovered and broil for 1-2 minutes to brown the cheese. Remove from the oven and set aside to cool.
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I have used apple juice or just chicken stock in place of the sherry. I can tell you that nothing is as good as the wine but the other ways are yummy too.
Hi Sugar, Tks for sharing and recipe sounds great and easy to make too. How different is cream sherry wine from sherry cooking wine? I am unable to get the former in Singapore, well for now…
I made this for my husband and myself tonight – delightful! Will make it for friends and take the bows!!
Oh I am so happy to hear that. Enjoy your company and the yummy sounds they will surely make when they eat this.
Joe, Taylor makes a Sherry and a Marsala and you can usually fine it in most stores for a reasonable price. Any decent wine that is good enough to drink will be perfect for cooking so don’t stress too much about it. Enjoy!
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!! Imade this om Sunday. It was a hit at the dinner table. I loved the creamery of the sauce. I didn’t have sherry, so I used Chicken stock instead and it tasted great!! The only ingredient I didn’t add were the mushrooms. It was still yummy. I will surely be making this again!!
Husband LOVED this recipe so much, he asked me how soon I could make another batch! So, he had Gloria’s chicken twice in less than a week. I’ve renamed it Gloria’s Glorious Chicken.
Also love the Italian Paella and made your delicious mini-cannoli’s to bring to a dinner party..added a hint of sambuca to the ricotta. Addictive!!! All gone in ten minutes.
Oh Kelly honey tell your hubby that you guys made my day today. It takes me a lot of time and a lot of love to add these recipes so I am thrilled that people are enjoying them. XXOO Keep cooking and be sure to tell your friends and family about my site so we can spread that love.
Holy MOLY this is DELICIOUS! I just consumed one chicken piece and poured some of the gravy over Campanella pasta… I am in heaven. This was one of the best dishes I’ve ever made, and I will DEFINITELY have to make this for my boyfriend one of these weekends! Thank you thank you thank you!
Wanted to make this for a dinner party but was unable to find cream sherry wine. Any suggestions on where i can but it or can I use cooking sherry wine instead of the cream?
Thanks for reminding me how wonderfully sherry combines with mushrooms and chicken! My mother used to cook with it in the 70′s . It was the sophisticated cooks ingredient back then:)
This looks so yummy, I can’t wait to make it!!
I made this recipe tonight and it was delicious. I couldn’t find cream sherry so I used sherry cooking wine and it was really good. I used half the mushrooms and 1/2 slice of Muenster cheese on each piece of chicken because I wasn’t sure that the Muenster cheese wouldn’t be too strong. It definitely wasn’t. I will use all the mushrooms and a whole slice of cheese on each piece of chicken the next time. Other than that, I followed the recipe exactly and it was SOOOOO good! I will make this again soon!
Kara you are so sweet to recognize that it takes a lot of time and love to post these. I try very hard to make sure all the measurements are correct and that anyone can make them. I want to make sure that my kids get to keep these recipes so I am happy to share this love from my kitchen to others. Thanks for the great feedback. Do be sure to share my site with other friends and family so they can enjoy them too.
Every try it over mashed potatoes or add a veggie to the dish?
Yes honey it’s great. You can add anything you like and get creative with it. I have done it with broccoli and or asparagus. Enjoy!
Looks so yummy, I’ll try and make this for my parents, can’t hardly wait!
I found you via pinterest, and just had to tell you how AWESOME this is! OMG!!! We ate evry last drop! It’s just me and my husband, so I only made 2 breasts, but I did the entire recipe for the sauce, and poured it over egg noodles. My husband LOVED it! And he hardly ever comments about my cooking!
Hi Sugar…This sounds delish and I wanna make it tonite..but no ones ever heard of cream sherry wine..would a pinot grigio work??
