Coq au vin

Neil Perry

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1-2 hours
Medium
French
Serves 4

A rustic French classic, coq au vin (chicken with wine) is easy to make - but, like all good things, it does take a little time. However, if you want to save time, this dish can be prepared in a pressure cooker, which will halve the cooking time. Coq au vin is fantastic with spuds, be they mashed, boiled or roasted. I also love peas with it.

Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Reader ratings (48)
Contains: Total commentsComments 3

Coq au vin: Serve with some creamy mashed potato. Photo: William Meppem

Ingredients

2 tbsp olive oil

25g butter

4 sticks celery, finely diced

4 cloves garlic, finely chopped

1 large carrot, finely diced

1/4 cup rindless pancetta, cut into 1cm dice

1.2kg chicken thigh cutlets on the bone

sea salt and freshly ground white pepper

4 tbsp plain flour

2 1/2 tbsp grape seed oil

10 baby pickled onions, peeled

12 small button mushrooms

3 tbsp cognac

2 cups good-quality red wine

1 cup chicken stock

6 sprigs fresh thyme

3 fresh bay leaves

1 tbsp redcurrant jelly

Method

Heat the oil and butter in a large heavy-based pan and sauté the celery, garlic, carrot and pancetta over a low heat for about 8 minutes, or until vegetables are soft. Remove from the pan and set aside.

Combine the chicken pieces, salt, white pepper and flour in a bowl and toss.

Add the grape seed oil to the pan over a high heat, and sauté the chicken pieces in batches until well browned. Remove from pan and set aside.

Add the onions and mushrooms, again to the same pan, and sauté over a low heat for 5 minutes or until slightly coloured.

Return the chicken pieces with their juices to the pan, turn the heat to high, and pour in the cognac. Reduce slightly then ignite to flambé. Allow the flames to die down then pour in the red wine and simmer, uncovered, over medium heat for about 5 minutes.

Add the chicken stock, reserved vegetable mixture, herbs and redcurrant jelly, and simmer covered for 45 minutes, or until the chicken is just tender.

Serve with potatoes prepared your favourite way.

Photography by William Meppem. Food styling by Hannah Meppem. Food preparation by Nick Banbury.

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Main Ingredients - Chicken, Pork, Mushroom
Cuisine - French
Course - Main-course, Dinner
Occasion - Family meals, Dinner Party

3 comments so far

So far there have been 2 reader ratings, scoring Mr Perry's recipe 1/5. It would be helpful if when offering such a low score, a few comments could also be left for Mr P. After all, its the only way he's going to learn. Myself, I might give this a go later. I'm oblivious as to whether the 2 'raters' actually tried the recipe in their own kitchens. Maybe I'll come back to rate his recipe then. I mean, it looks a fairly orthodox Coq au Vin recipe, so I'm struggling to find ways it only merits 1/5.

Commenter: sween
Location
Date and time: July 26, 2014, 11:36AM

we cooked this on friday and it was amaze balls... give it a go!!!

Commenter: ozzodeano
Location: shydney
Date and time: July 26, 2014, 3:41PM

About to cook this for the second time since recipe was published...1st result was wonderfully received - hopefully the same reaction this time ...

Commenter: starwoman
Location: Brisbane
Date and time: July 31, 2014, 1:08PM

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