HEARTY COQ AU VIN

French Chicken

Ingredients

  • For Croutons:
  • 4 slices French bread
  • 4 teaspoons olive oil
  • 1 clove garlic, halved
  • For Coq au Vin:
  • 2-2 1/2 pounds meaty chicken pieces (breasts, thighs, and drumsticks)
  • 1 tablespoon margarine or butter
  • 1 tablespoon cooking oil
  • Salt
  • Pepper
  • 1 1/2 cups fresh mushrooms, cut into quarters
  • 12 pearl onions, peeled
  • 2 slices bacon, cut up
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup chicken broth
  • 1 cup dry red wine
  • 2 tablespoons tomato paste
  • 1 tomato, peeled, seeded, and chopped
  • 1 tablespoon snipped fresh parsley
  • 1 tablespoon snipped fresh tarragon or 1 teaspoon dried tarragon, crushed
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 2 tablespoons snipped fresh parsley

Directions

FOR CROUTONS: Lightly brush both sides of French bread slices with olive oil. Rub with cut side of garlic clove. Cut bread slices into 3/4-1-inch pieces. Place the bread cubes in a shallow baking pan. Bake in a preheated 3000 oven for about 15 minutes or till crisp, stirring once. Set 1 cup of the croutons aside till serving time. Cover and store remaining croutons for another use.

FOR COQ AU VIN: Skin chicken, if desired. Rinse chicken; pat dry. In a Dutch oven brown chicken pieces on all sides in hot margarine or butter and oil. Remove chicken from Dutch oven; sprinkle with salt and pepper.

In the same Dutch oven cook mushrooms, onions, bacon, and garlic till tender. Drain off fat, reserving 2 tablespoons in Dutch oven. Stir flour into reserved fat and cook for 1 minute. Add chicken broth, wine, tomato paste, chopped tomato, 1 tablespoon parsley, tarragon, and bay leaf. Return chicken pieces to Dutch oven; bring to boiling. Cover and bake in a preheated 350 degrees oven for 45 minutes. Remove bay leaf. If necessary, skim off excess fat. Top each serving with some of the croutons and 2 tablespoons snipped parsley.

Makes 4 servings.

Reprinted by permission of Weldon Owen. All rights reserved.




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Submitted 6/13/05.
Source: cooking.com
Submitted By: Meryl
merstarunicorn11@hotmail.com
HEARTY COQ AU VIN