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Coq au vin recipe

Created by Gabriel Gaté

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4.5/ 5 stars 18 Votes

Cuisine: French
Serves 4

You might also enjoy Jacques Reymond's coq au vin recipe, as seen on French Food Safari. It's great served with large fresh pasta.

Ingredients

20 small onions (pickling onions)
A few sprigs of parsley
A sprig of thyme
1 bay leaf
50 g butter
100 g bacon, cut into small strips
250 g mushrooms
8 chicken pieces on the bone, e.g. 4 drumsticks and 4 thighs
Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
30 ml cognac
1 large tbsp plain flour
400 ml red wine
1 clove garlic
2 tbsp tomato paste
2 tbsp chopped parsley

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Preparation

Place peeled onions in a saucepan with cold water. Bring to the boil and boil for 2 minutes, then drain.

Tie the parsley, thyme and bay leaf together using kitchen string.

Heat half the butter in a wide saucepan on medium heat and brown onions for a few minutes. Add bacon and stir well for 2 minutes. Add mushrooms and cook for 4-5 minutes until mushrooms are soft. Transfer onions, bacon and mushrooms to a dish.

Heat remaining butter in the same pan and brown chicken pieces on high heat for a few minutes. Season with salt and pepper and stir well.

Drain excess fat into a bowl and discard.

Add cognac to pan and flame the chicken by either lighting a match or by tilting the pan towards the gas flame. Stir well, then sprinkle flour over the chicken.

Add wine and shake the pan. Add herbs, garlic and tomato paste and stir well. Bring to a slow simmer, cover with a lid and cook for about 20 minutes.

Turn chicken pieces over. Add mushrooms, bacon and onions, cover with a lid and simmer for a further 10 minutes.

Check the seasoning, sprinkle with chopped parsley and serve.

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Comments (4)

01 Aug 2011 11:25 AEST

cody

sydney

yummm

hey everyone this style of food is great for a winter meal. If you wanna impress someone with your cooking skills than this is a great way to impress

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22 Nov 2010 11:28 AEST

Shazzyrose

The Ponds

Fav Coq au vin recipe

I love this recipe - I've cooked other coq au vin recipes from other celebrity chefs but found this one the simplest and best tasting to cook at home. This was an old Le Tour recipe from a few yrs back and I was devastated when I lost my only copy last year. I'm so so happy SBS has re-published all the Le Tour recipes to date. My husband is French and this one certainly passes muster with him.

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12 Sep 2010 01:00 AEST

Neil

Hilton WA

Coq au vin

This is a wonderful recipe, I've used it a few times now. Good to use the best ingredients - free range chook, great bacon and (gulp) the best brandy

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23 Jul 2010 11:18 AEST

Roslyn

Lara

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This is the first time I have visited this web site. It has been easy to use and very clear to navigate around. I cannot comment on the recipes as yet ,as I have not tried them, but they look great. My husband and I have been glued to the 'Tour de France' and see Gabriel Gate on this program.

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