Chicken Marsala for Recycling the Old into the New | Sara's Kitchen Witchcraft
- Sara Raztresen
- 4 days ago
- 4 min read
Because what's death without a little rebirth, yeah?
TW: weightlifting, weight gain/loss, and body talk.
So, listen: right now it's bulking season. And that means we eat, baby, we eat. Gotta grow big powerful muscles and all that junk so that we look like a murder bot once we get on the cut.
There's no better time for bulking than the holiday season and the first couple months after, given, you know... we're stuffing our faces with a bunch of junk, and then wearing some nice baggy sweaters for another few months after that. By time we start the cut in March, it'll still be cold and miserable, and that means we'll be able to be baggy clothes wearing goblins for a little longer until we become super Murder Botâ„¢ for June.
But as you might imagine, the most common shit you see people eating for this bulk or cut nonsense is... chicken and rice. Literally just sad, plain chicken and sad, plain rice. I don't know if these gym boys are afraid of oregano or something, but Jesus Christ, man, I can't be eating that boring shit everyday no matter what time of the year it is. So instead, we're making chicken and rice in ways that people recognize: starting with some gorgeous chicken marsala.
In this recipe, for magic, we're looking at the mushroom (baby bella), thyme, onion, and rice to get ourselves up and ready to rumble.
Magic in Chicken Marsala & Rice
If you know anything about mushrooms, you know they're the recyclers of the plant world. Without them, we'd have no space to walk, as trees would just pile up and never break down! But with their help, the once hard, sturdy tree becomes soft, loamy mulch that other plants can use to stay moist and nourished. That alone makes mushrooms a powerful ingredient to add into anything you want to involve in any death/rebirth magic. Moreover, adding rice, onion, and thyme to the mix mean you also have an opportunity to focus on what it is you're transmuting: onion wards away all kinds of evil, while rice and thyme are all about wealth, intellect, love, and psychic power. All good things things to add after removing the bad!
In terms of energies present, a touch of fire for energy, a touch of air for intellect, and then plenty of water for emotional stability and contact with the illusions you’re going to destroy? Yeah. That’s a good elemental blend. Moreover, the planetary influences of both Sun and Moon invoke balance, while Mars and Venus both demolish obstacles in your path while beautifying and making level the way forward. Combine that with the fact that these are ingredients used for warding away as much as increasing, and for generating as much as breaking down, and it’s the perfect meal to kick off the New Year with as you leave the past behind and head towards the future!
Chicken Marsala & Rice
Prep time: 15 min
Cook Time: 50-55 min
Makes 3-4 servings
Ingredients:
3 chicken breasts, sliced in half the long way
½ cup all purpose flour
1 onion, diced
4 cloves of garlic, minced
8oz baby bella mushrooms, chopped
1 cup sweet Marsala wine
1 cup chicken stock
1 cup cream (heavy or light)
1 Tbsp dried thyme
280g rice
Salt & pepper to taste
Directions:
 Salt, pepper, and fry onions until translucent, then add garlic and fry until fragrant.
 Fry washed mushrooms in the pan until they release their water and reduce.
 While vegetables are frying, slice your chicken so each breast is thin and then put into a ziploc bag with flour. Seal and shake until the chicken is coated.
 Remove vegetables from pan, add a good amount of fat (like 1 Tbsp butter or oil), and fry chicken on each side until golden brown, then set aside.
 Deglaze the pan with Marsala wine, scraping up any brown bits until the pan is clear. Add cream, chicken stock, thyme, and more salt and pepper to taste, then add all your chicken and vegetable to the pan so everything is covered in the sauce.
 Bring to a simmer, then let cook while your rice cooks.
 Serve over rice with a good drizzle of the sauce and enjoy!
Chicken Marsala is one of those things you get in restaurants thinking it's too fancy to make at home, but... it's really not. It's easy, doesn't take a lot of ingredients, and it tastes so good. Definitely give it a try if you've got stuff you need to compost in your life to grow new and better things! ♥
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Sara Raztresen is a Slovene-American writer, screenwriter, and Christian witch. Her fantasy works draw heavily on the wisdom she gathers from her own personal and spiritual experience, and her spiritual practice borrows much of the whimsy and wonder that modern society has relegated to fairy-and-folktale. Her goal is to help people regain their spiritual footing and discover God through a new (yet old) lens of mysticism.