Coq Au Vin Recipe | Traditional Coq Au Vin Recipe | What Is Coq Au Vin | Coq Au Vin Recipe Easy

Coq Au Vin Recipe | Traditional Coq Au Vin Recipe | Chicken Coq Au Vin Recipe | Coq Au Vin Recipe Easy  

 

Coq au vin a French classic base stew, where the chicken is braised on a slow flame with the red wine to enrich a rich sauce packed with tender meat, sliced mushrooms, crispy bits of bacon complimenting with pearl onions. Following the traditional recipe will be a whole cut chicken, but if used meat/beef gives you a juicy dish, a risk-free overcooked white meat.

Coq Au Vin Ingredients for Chicken marination

Chicken quarter leg pieces 4 with skin
Salt to taste
Black pepper to taste
Bouquet garni few stems
Thyme fresh - 3 stems
Bay leaf - 2
Burgundy red wine – 3 cups
 

Coq Au Vin Ingredients for Sauce

Bacon – 1 cup
Oil – 4thsp
Carrots – 3 chopped cube-shaped
Onion  - 1 chopped cube shaped
Mushroom –1/2 lb sliced
Garlic cloves – 5 chopped
Tomato paste – 2 tbsp
Flour – 2tbsp
Brandy – ¼ cup
 

Crunchy topping vegetables

Olive Oil  - 2tbsp
Butter – 2tbsp
Peeled baby pearl onions – ½ pound
Sugar – pinch
Cremini Mushrooms – ½ pound, quarter cut
 

Coq Au Vin preparation Method

• Marinate the chicken and leave it for 2 hours or overnight
• Take a pan and add bacon chopped, cook on a slow heat until the fat has released.
• Now take it out and keep it aside.
• Now pat dry on the kitchen towel the marinated chicken skin quarter legs.
• Then add 4 tbsp oil and add the marinated chicken and cook for 8 min on one side then flips and cook on the other side.
• Make sure the chicken get the dark brown colour on both sides.
• Now take out the chicken from the pan and add chopped carrot, onions, mushrooms, garlic and mix well until the mixture gets soft and brown in colour.
• After 5 minutes add 2tbsp tomato paste.
• After 2 minutes sprinkle flour.
• As you add the flour it will soak moisture and within a minute add brandy mix well for a minute
• Add the remaining chicken marination sauce, which is left before.
• As the sauce, boils add the chicken back in the sauce.
• Do not mix, sprinkle the toasted bacon, cover, and cook on low flame for 1 hour.
• In a pan add olive oil and butter and peeled pearl onions and sprinkle pinch sugar mix well and add cremini mushrooms. Make sure they are soft and light brownish in colour.
• Now add e crunchy veggies on the top of the chicken and sauce.
• Sprinkle with celery and serve with French bread toast.
  
  

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