Sunday, 30 January 2011

Coq au Vin


  • few chicken legs, wings
  • 2 onions
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 200 g champignons
  • 200 g bacon
  • flour
  • 1/2 bottle red wine
  • 50 ml Cognac
  • 4 tablespoon butter
  • herbs de Provence
  • salt, pepper

  1. Cut the bacon into stripes. Remove the fat. Quarter onions into chunks.
  2. Melt the butter in a fryingpan. Cover chicken with a flour and fry on all sides.
  3. When the chicken is browned put it in a pot. Add onions, garlic, bacon, mushrooms. Sprinkle with herbes de Provence, salt and pepper.
  4. Warm the cognac in a saucepan. Light the cognac and flambez the chicken (pour on the burning cognac).
  5. When the flames die, pour in the red wine. Cover the pot and bring to a boil. Mix.
  6. Preheat the oven to 135 Celsius degrees.
  7. Cook in the oven for app. an hour.
  8. You can also simmer chicken instead of baking in the oven.

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