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Posh Coq au Vin
A retro recipe based on a classic French dish, chicken in red wine is usually made with button mushrooms, but I’ve replaced them with the woody flavour of wild mushrooms. Dried wild mushrooms are now ready available, and need to be soaked before using
Serves 4
Ingredients
- Oil-water spray
- 4 large chicken legs, skinned and cut into thighs and drumsticks
- 1 tablespoon plain flour
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 150g small pickling onions, peeled
- 4 bacon rashers, cut into strips
- 200g mixed fresh wild mushrooms, cleaned, sliced
- 2 garlic cloves, crushed
- 150ml good-quality red wine
- 1 tablespoon tomato purée
- 850ml hot chicken stock
- 2 sprigs of fresh thyme
- 1 small bay leaf
Method
Preheat the oven to 200˚C/400˚F/gas mark 6. Heat a squirt of oil-water spray in a large non-stick flameproof casserole dish. Dust the chicken pieces with the flour mixed with black pepper. Add to the pan and fry for 4-5 minutes on each side until the chicken is browned. Remove the chicken from the pan and place to one side.
Add the onions and bacon and cook for 5 minutes, until browned all over. Then add the wild mushrooms and garlic and cook for a further 5 minutes until the mushrooms are browned. Add the red wine and boil for 2-3 minutes.
Return the chicken to the pan, add the tomato purée and carefully mix well. Add the stock a little at a time to form a sauce. Bring to the boil, tuck in the thyme and bay leaf, cover with a lid and place in the oven to cook for 25-30 minutes or until the chicken is tender and the sauce reduced in consistency and intense in flavour. Remove the thyme and bay leaf and serve with mashed potatoes and steamed spinach.
Per serving: 265 kcals, 7g fat, 2g saturated fat, 0.89 sodium
Extracted from: Healthy Eating for Your Heart by Paul Gayler with Jacqui Lynas BSc RD (Kyle Cathie), £12.99) with photography by Peter Cassidy. Buy the book at a discount from Saga Books.
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