Waterzooi
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5.0
3 reviews
Excellent
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Prep Time
30 mins
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Cook Time
30 mins
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Servings
4 people
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Course
Main Course, Soup
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Cuisine
Belgian
Waterzooi
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Waterzooi is a typical dish from Ghent in Flanders, made from chicken or fish, vegetables, cream and potatoes, served as a kind of soup with bread.
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Ingredients
- 4 chicken legs
- 4 leeks , trimmed and sliced diagonally
- 1 stalk celery , trimmed, and sliced diagonally
- 3 carrots , sliced diagonally
- 4 small potatoes , halved
- 1 onion , cut into strips
- 1 bouquet garni (bay leaf, thyme)
- 1 quart vegetable broth
- 4 tablespoons butter
For the sauce
- 2 egg yolks , lightly beaten
- ½ cup heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- salt
- pepper , freshly ground
Garnish
- 2 tablespoons chopped chervil
Equipment
- Dutch oven
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Instructions
- In a heavy-bottomed pan, melt the butter over low to medium heat.
- Sauté leeks, potatoes, celery, carrots and onion for 3 minutes. Set aside.
- In a Dutch oven, place the chicken legs and bouquet garni and pour the broth. Season with salt and pepper.
- Cover and bring to a boil over high heat.
- Reduce the heat, cover and continue cooking over low heat for 20 minutes. Add the reserved vegetables.
- Cover and continue cooking for 15 minutes over low heat.
- Remove the bouquet garni.
Sauce
- Place the egg yolks in a large bowl.
- In a saucepan, heat the cream without boiling it.
- Slowly pour it over the eggs, whisking.
- Then add the lemon juice, whisking vigorously until the mixture has the consistency of a thick cream. Season with salt and pepper.
- Pour 2 ladles of broth over this sauce and mix.
- Transfer the sauce to the Dutch oven and mix gently.
- Adjust the seasoning if necessary.
- Divide the waterzooi among 4 bowls. Decorate with chervil and serve with bread.
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