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Coq au Vin Jaune avec Morille recipe
(French for: Chicken cooked in yellow wine, with morille
mushrooms)
Ingredients for
4 people:
- Fresh chicken (if
possible Bresse Chicken)
- Bottle of Vin Jaune
(or white wine)
- 80 g of dried Morilles
mushrooms (or a double handful of tinned Morilles)
- 500 g of Crème Fraîche
(soured cream)
- Butter
- Flour
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Preparation Time: 20 Minutes |
Cooking Time: 60 Minutes |
Recipe:
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Soak dried morilles in water for 2 hours and carefully wash (if you have tinned morilles,
simply rinse)
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Cut chicken
into approximately 10 pieces (wing, each leg into two, each breast into 2)
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Fry the chicken pieces in
butter until golden brown (taking care not to burn the butter or chicken). While
frying, sprinkle flour over the chicken pieces, turn and sprinkle flour on the
other side, then turn again.
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Open bottle of vin jaune and
set aside half a wine glass
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Put the chicken pieces into a
pot together with remaining bottle of vin jaune and morilles.
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Simmer for 30 minutes
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Add crème fraîche to the pot
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Simmer for
another 30 minutes or until chicken pieces are very tender
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Add the half
wine glass of vin jaune and serve immediately.
Side dish: Rice
Notes:
This is a
traditional and very popular meal in the Jura department (in the
East of France). Vin Jaune is a wine which is produced only in
this region and has a very distinctive taste which goes very
well with wine cooked in this manner.
Normally, due
to the cost of Vin Jaune, this recipe is made with ordinary
white wine. A glass of Vin Jaune wine is then added at the end
to provide the distinctive taste and aroma to the dish. If you
intend to drink the bottle of Vin Jaune, this is a perfectly
acceptable and normal approach. However, if you don't intend to
drink the bottle, you might as well use the entire bottle in
this fashion. Although more expensive, I find using a full
bottle of Vin Jaune, rather than merely adding a glass at the
end, provides an even more exceptional flavour.
Morilles are a
very fine mushroom with exceptional taste and aroma (although
not cheap).
- For other Coq
au Vin recipes, as well as its history, click on
Coq au Vin.
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