Chicken Dijon Recipe

Quick Easy French Mustard Chicken

This chicken Dijon recipe is ready in about a half hour. French mustard, wine, heavy cream, herbs, and mushrooms all combine to a make a fabulous taste that has none of the bite you might expect from mustard.

Dijon France

In France you won't find a specific recipe for chicken Dijon. You'll find lots of recipes from Dijon, which is a city in the east of France famous for it's mustard, and you'll certainly find recipes for chicken cooked with mustard, but the notion of a specific Chicken Dijon recipe probably originates outside of France.

Dijon is a very old city and an interesting place to visit, with lots of historical sites, museums and great restaurants. It is located in the east of France in the Bourgogne region. Much of the mustard that it is so famous for is actually grown in other places and then processed in Dijon. But Dijon is much more than just a mustard.

Mostly just to the south of Dijon stretches one of France's most famous wine regions, Bourgogne, a narrow swath of land that produces an incredible array of wines from Chablis in the very north to Beaujolais at the southern end.

Perhaps it is the proximity to so many fine and varied wines that makes Dijon a popular gastronomic destination and host of the Foire internationale et gastronomique every fall, an event that attracts several hundred thousand visitors.

Dijon is also a producer of crème de cassis, a delicious French liqueur made from black currants. This syrupy dark liqueur is mixed with white wine to make a kir and with champagne to make a kir royale, two sweet cocktails worth a try if you get a chance.