Coq au Vin

100No. 36

A whole bottle of wine and an afternoon well spent.

⏱ 2 hr 30 min · medium · 🍽 serves 6

Ingredients

• 3 lb chicken thighs and drumsticks
• 6 oz bacon, in strips
• 1 bottle red wine
• 2 cups chicken stock
• 1 onion, diced
• 2 carrots, sliced
• 3 garlic cloves
• 2 tbsp tomato paste
• 3 tbsp flour
• 1 lb mushrooms, quartered
• 12 pearl onions
• 3 tbsp butter
• Thyme and bay
• Kosher salt and black pepper

Steps

1. Render the bacon in a Dutch oven and remove it. Brown the chicken hard in the fat, in batches, and set aside.
2. Cook the onion, carrot and garlic 8 minutes, then the tomato paste and flour for 2 minutes.
3. Add the wine, scraping the bottom, and reduce by a third.
4. Return the chicken and bacon with the stock, thyme and bay. Simmer covered 1 hour 15 minutes.
5. Meanwhile brown the mushrooms and pearl onions hard in the butter, separately, until properly coloured.
6. Add them for the last 15 minutes and season the sauce.