Recipe: Chicken Breasts with Hot Pepper Sauce

Chicken Breasts with Hot Pepper Sauce
Rec.food.recipes/Ian and Carol/1998

4 chicken breasts
1 cup garlic finely chopped
2 tsp hot pepper sauce
1 onion chopped
5 fl.oz chicken stock
1 Tbsp olive oil
2 fl.oz white wine
salt and pepper

Heat the oil in a frying pan, add the chicken breasts and cook them gently on all sides over a gentle heat until just colored. Add the garlic, onion and hot pepper sauce to the pan and stir well. Pour over the wine, increase the heat and cook until the wine has evaporated. Reduce the heat and stir in the stock. Season with salt and pepper and allow to cook through, covered, for 10 minutes. Remove the breasts to a preheated plate and raise the heat to reduce and thicken the sauce. pour a little sauce over each chicken breast and serve.

VARIATION: Sprinkle over lots of freshly chopped chives just before serving.