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Coq au Vin Avec Creme recipe
(French for: Chicken cooked in wine, with cream)
Ingredients for
4 people:
- Fresh chicken
- Bottle of white wine
- 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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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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Put the chicken pieces into a
pot together with the wine
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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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Serve
Side dish: Rice
Notes:
This is a tasty but simple
Coq au Vin recipe.
One should use
an ordinary bottle of wine for this recipe. A bad bottle might
ruin the dish, whereas investing in a fine bottle would be a
shame as the subtle tones of an expensive bottle would be lost
during cooking. Avoid strong tasting wines (e.g. a wine which
has been aged for a long time in a barrel and thus has an "oaky"
taste) as this would conflict with the taste of the cream and
chicken. A simple Chardonnay would be most suitable.
For other Coq
au Vin recipes, as well as its history, click on
Coq au Vin.
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