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Alistair

  • Joined Sep 2012
Coq-au-vin
« on: December 02, 2012, 05:52:24 pm »
My favourite... Just made it, we'll started yesterday, and eat it.

Recipe - chicken, jointed, less breasts
Bottle red wine
Brandy - some, and some for me
Mushrooms
Bacon
Onions
Bay leaves x2
Thyme
Butter
Flour - toasted

Method, reduce wine by a third and let cool, marinade chicken in wine and herbs overnight
Drain marinade and keep
Sauté bacon in butter
Pat dry chicken then sauté to golden colour in bacon fat and butter
Add onions - small ones whole otherwise quartered
Flambé in brandy,
Add toasted flour or flour 1tbspn
Drink some of the brandy
Add marinade and mushrooms
Drink some more brandy
Cook on low heat for 3hrs or until brandy runs out


Yum yum, that'll see me for 3  or 4 days and just gets better with age

Some people add carrots and celery at the beginning, I don't, it reduces the amount of time available to drink brandy

deepinthewoods

  • Guest
Re: Coq-au-vin
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2012, 06:27:08 pm »
thats my kind of recipe, i shall try that one next weekend. :thumbsup:

NormandyMary

  • Joined Apr 2011
Re: Coq-au-vin
« Reply #2 on: December 03, 2012, 11:58:50 am »
I do wish OH would eat something like this, it sounds absolutely lush. This thread is getting busier these days .Great!

Bionic

  • Joined Dec 2010
  • Talley, Carmarthenshire
Re: Coq-au-vin
« Reply #3 on: December 03, 2012, 12:28:50 pm »
Sounds like I have to buy myself a BIG bottle of brandy  :roflanim: :roflanim:
Sally
Life is like a bowl of cherries, mostly yummy but some dodgy bits

Alistair

  • Joined Sep 2012
Re: Coq-au-vin
« Reply #4 on: December 03, 2012, 12:54:10 pm »
Didn't last 3 or 4 days, it's gone now  :(

Normandymary, just make it, and don't make anything else, oh will get hungry enough eventually and eat it, luckily it gets better with age so you can afford to wait,

Forgot to mention you should take the skin off the chicken

Sally, a big big bottle of brandy is required, takes ages to cook

Gonna make beouf bourguignon this evening, well start anyway, yum

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Coq-au-vin
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2013, 08:06:26 pm »
He: Do you want some wine with your supper?
Me: No thanks, I've had some brandy.
He: You've had some brandy?!!!  :o
Me: Yes, the recipe called for it.

Alistair, thanks so much for writing the recipe as you did!  :D ;)  hic!
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