Coq au Vin Recipe

Name: Coq au Vin Recipe
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 3 h 30 min
Total time: 4 h
Yield: 4 people
Ingredients: 3 ounces Bacon; butter; 3 dark meat quarters; 1½ ounces all purpose flour; salt and black pepper; 2 medium carrots; 2 medium celery stalks; 1 medium-large onion; 2 tablespoons tomato paste; 1 bottle dry red wine; chicken stock; 8 ounces peeled pearl onions; 8 ounces button mushrooms; 2 bay leaves; 2 prigs fresh thyme; 2 prigs fresh parsley; 3 cloves garlic; 5 pepper corns

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Prep Time
30 mins
Cook Time
3 hrs 30 mins
Total Time
4 hrs
Servings
4 people
Course
Main Course
Cuisine
French

Coq au Vin Recipe

Iris Warren

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A French classic, this dish is simple to prepare and very economical. In years past, the farmer would make this meal with an old unproductive rooster. Today you can't find a rooster in the supermarket, young, old, or unproductive. So instead, make this with a stewing hen or all dark meat, such as thighs and drumsticks.

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Ingredients

Servings

3 ounces Bacon thick-cut, cut cross-wise into ½ inch pieces
butter or neutral oil, as needed
3 dark meat quarters or thighs and legs to fit in one layer in the bottom of a Dutch Oven
1½ ounces all purpose flour
salt and black pepper to taste
2 medium carrots cut in small dice
2 medium celery stalks cut in small dice
1 medium-large onion cut in small dice
2 tablespoons tomato paste
1 bottle dry red wine
chicken stock homemade or low-sodium canned, as needed
8 ounces peeled pearl onions whole
8 ounces button mushrooms small ones cut in half, large ones cut in quarters

For the Bouquet Garni

2 bay leaves
2 prigs fresh thyme or ½ teaspoon dried
2 prigs fresh parsley or 1 teaspoon dried
3 cloves garlic
5 pepper corns

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Instructions

In the bottom of a large Dutch oven, fry bacon pieces until crisp. Drain and reserve bacon. You should have 1 - 2 tablespoons of bacon grease in the pan's bottom. If not, add a little butter or neutral vegetable oil.
You can remove the skin from the chicken pieces depending on how much fat you like. Sear chicken pieces on all sides until golden brown. Reserve.
Again, add butter or oil to have 1 - 2 tablespoons of fat in the pan. Sauté the peeled pearl onions with salt and pepper until golden brown. Reserve. If necessary, add more oil or butter to the pan, and sauté the mushroom pieces with a pinch of salt and pepper until golden brown. Reserve.
Add the carrot, celery, onion, and a pinch of salt and pepper, and cook over medium heat until the vegetables soften and turn golden.
Add the flour, whisk, and cook over medium heat for 1-2 minutes. Add the tomato paste and cook another minute or two. Deglaze the hot pan with a cup or so of wine.
Put the chicken back into the pan. Add the rest of the wine. Cover the pot and refrigerate overnight.
The next day, preheat the oven to 300°F, and add enough chicken stock to the pot to almost cover the chicken.
Tie the bay leaves, thyme, parsley, garlic cloves, and peppercorns together in a square of cheesecloth and add to the pot. Submerge the bouquet garni in the cooking liquid.
Cover the pot tightly and let braise in the oven until the chicken is very tender about 3 hours.
Remove the chicken and the bouquet garni from the pot at the end of the cooking time. Reserve the chicken and keep it warm. Throw the bouquet garni away. Do not get the two confused and throw away the chicken.
With an immersion blender, blend the sauce until smooth, and then reduce on the stovetop by about ¼ or until a nice saucy consistency.
Taste the sauce and add more salt and/or pepper, if needed.
Add back the reserved onions and mushrooms and heat through. Add the chicken back to the pan and stir everything together.
Heat the bacon pieces on a baking sheet in the oven.
Garnish each serving with some of the hot, crispy bacon pieces.