🇫🇷🍗 Coq au Vin – Traditional French Chicken in Red Wine Sauce
Tender chicken slowly braised with mushrooms, pearl onions, bacon and herbs in a rich Burgundy wine sauce. Served with creamy buttery mashed potatoes — perfect French autumn comfort food! 🍂❤️
🛒 Ingredients
For the Coq au Vin:
🍗 1 kg chicken thighs & drumsticks
🥓 150 g bacon, diced
🍄 250 g mushrooms
🧅 12 pearl onions
🥕 2 carrots
🧄 3 garlic cloves
🍷 500 ml dry red wine
🥣 200 ml chicken stock
🧈 30 g butter
🫒 2 tbsp olive oil
🌾 1 tbsp flour
🌿 3 thyme sprigs
🍃 2 bay leaves
🧂 Salt & black pepper
🌿 Fresh parsley
For the mashed potatoes:
🥔 800 g potatoes
🧈 60 g butter
🥛 120 ml warm milk
🧂 Salt
👩🍳 Preparation
1. Season chicken with salt and pepper. Brown the bacon in a Dutch oven and set aside.
2. Sear chicken in olive oil and a little butter until golden. Remove temporarily.
3. Sauté pearl onions, carrots, mushrooms and garlic. Stir in flour.
4. Return chicken and bacon. Add red wine, stock, thyme and bay leaves.
5. Cover and simmer gently for 45–60 minutes, until the chicken is fully cooked and tender.
6. Uncover and reduce the sauce until rich and glossy.
7. Boil potatoes until tender, then mash with butter, warm milk and salt.
8. Serve the chicken with mushrooms, onions, generous wine gravy and creamy mashed potatoes. Garnish with parsley.
✨ A timeless French countryside classic — rich, comforting and full of flavor! 🇫🇷❤️
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