Tastes Like Chicken! Recipes
(From Chicken Recipes Compiled Since 1992)

Chicken In Red Wine (Coq Au Vin Rouge)

Category: French

Servings: 6 to 8

Description: Red wine is the dominant flavor for the sauce in this classic French dish.

Ingredients:

• 6 slices bacon
• 1/2 C flour
• 2 t salt
• 1/4 t pepper
• 3 to 3 1/2 lb broiler-fryer whole chicken, cut up
• 1 lb mushrooms
• 1/2 lb tiny pearl onions
• 8 baby carrots
• 2 1/2 C dry red wine
• 1 1/2 C chicken broth
• 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
• Bouquet Garni (4 sprigs parsley, 2 bay leaves, 1 t dried thyme leaves tied in cheesecloth bag or placed in tea ball)
• Snipped parsley

Instructions:

1. Fry bacon in Dutch oven until crisp. Remove bacon. Mix together flour, 1 teaspoon salt and pepper. Coat chicken with flour mixture. Cook chicken in hot bacon fat over medium heat until light brown on all sides, 15 to 20 minutes. Remove chicken. Cook mushrooms, onions and carrots until light brown. Drain fat. Return chicken to Dutch oven. Crumble bacon over chicken and vegetables. Stir in wine, broth, garlic, 1 teaspoon salt and Bouquet Garni. Heat to boiling. Reduce heat. Cover and simmer until thickest pieces of chicken are done, 35 to 40 minutes. Skim fat. Remove Bouquet Garni. Sprinkle with parsley and serve in soup bowls.