Coq Au Vin | Hearty Chicken Stew Recipe | Warm Wintertime Dinner Ideas

It is that fourth dimension of twelvemonth - snowfall is inward the forecast, Christmas is roughly the corner in addition to we're all inward the mood for cozy dinners.  This stew is a warm-you-to-the-bones, stick-to-your-ribs wintertime dinner that volition satisfy your every craving.  For to a greater extent than Cozy Dinner Ideas, click here.

Coq gold Vin has been on my 'list' for nearly iii years now.  I'm non certain why I've been putting it off - mayhap I was intimidated yesteryear the sophisticated name, or mayhap I though it would last likewise complicated?  Or mayhap I only idea that it was likewise much similar Beef Bourguignon, thus I'd only brand that instead.  I decided to hand it a whirl this calendar week - in addition to am I thus glad I did.

I made a lighter, healthier version of the classic.  Instead of using a whole chicken cutting into pieces amongst the peel on, I used chicken breasts.  Instead of using bacon, I used pancetta that has a smokier flavour in addition to less fat.  Mike idea that it would bring been neat served amongst mashed potatoes, too... of course, typical meat in addition to potatoes guy!

Coq gold Vin

hearty & salubrious chicken stew

1/3 pound of pancetta, diced

2 pounds chicken breasts

Sea Salt & Black Pepper

5 carrots, large dice

1/2 xanthous onion

4 cloves of garlic, minced

2 cups of mushrooms, sliced

2 cups of cherry-red wine

2 - fourteen oz. cans of chicken broth

1 tablespoon of fresh thyme 

2 tablespoons of butter

2 tablespoons of flour

1 baquette

olive oil

clove of garlic

Preheat the oven to 250 degrees.

In a large dutch oven (or heavy pan amongst lid), produce diced pancetta on medium until the fatty has rendered off.  Remove pancetta amongst a slotted spoon in addition to ready aside, leaving the fatty inward the pan.  Cut the chicken into 2-3 inch pieces, tabular array salt in addition to pepper liberally.  On high heat, sear the chicken inward the pancetta fatty for 2-3 minutes on each side until brown.  Remove chicken in addition to ready aside.

Add carrots in addition to onions to the pan in addition to produce for 3-5 minutes until they laid about to soften.  You may involve to add together some olive fossil oil to the pan at this point.  Add mushrooms.  Cook for a yoke of minutes to brown.  Add garlic.  Cook for only 1 minute.  Add wine, broth in addition to thyme.  Add chicken in addition to pancetta dorsum into the pan.  Simmer for v minutes, thus set inward the 250 score oven for 30-40 minutes until chicken is cooked thru.  Return pan to the stove top.

In a pocket-sized bowl, microwave the butter for xv seconds.  Add flour in addition to mix together.  Add flour butter mixture to the pan amongst the chicken, vegetables in addition to vino broth .  Heat on medium high until the vino in addition to broth mix begins to bubble in addition to thicken.

Slice baquette into thick slices.  Drizzle amongst olive oil.  Place them nether a hot broiler for 1-2 minutes until browned.  Remove from oven in addition to rub the garlic clove over the operate yesteryear of each piece.

Serve the stew amongst a while of the garlic breadstuff inward a shallow soup bowl. 

Brown the pancetta.

Sear the chicken on each side until it has a brownish crust. 

Cook the vegetables inward the same fat.

Add mushrooms. 

Be certain to purpose fresh thyme - it actually does brand a difference!


This is a neat soup for a mutual frigidity wintertime nighttime inward front end of the fireplace... perfect.  For to a greater extent than Cozy Dinner Ideas, click here.

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