Rooster in Wine Coq au Vin

⏳ Time

2 hours + 8 hours

🥕 Ingredients

🍽️ Servings

Description

Coq au Vin, the famous French rooster in wine: ideally, it should be Burgundy, but let's not be too pedantic. The key is to use a good quality wine. According to legend, even Julius loved this dish, but that's just a legend. Reliable sources attribute the recipe to much later times.

Ingredients

Rooster - 1 piece
Red Grape Juice - 25 fl oz
Onion - 1 head
Celery stalk - 2 pieces
Carrot - 1 piece
Garlic - 3 cloves
Olive Oil - 1 fl oz
Wheat Flour - 3 spoons
Shallot - 3 pieces
Champignons - 14.1 oz
Thyme - 4 sprigs
Parsley - 0.7 oz
Bay leaf - 2 pieces
Chicken Broth - 17 fl oz
Salt - to taste
Ground Black Pepper - to taste
Bacon - 3.5 oz

Step by Step guide

Step 1

Cut the rooster into breasts, drumsticks, thighs, and wings.

Step 2

Coarsely chop the carrot, celery, and onion. Crush a clove of garlic.

Step 3

In a saucepan, heat the wine with the vegetables and simmer for 5 minutes.

Step 4

Then allow to cool completely. Pour the wine marinade over the pieces of meat, season with salt and pepper, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for at least 8 hours.

Step 5

Remove the meat from the marinade and pat it dry with paper towels. Reserve the marinade and vegetables.

Step 6

In a large heavy-bottomed pot, sauté the bacon in olive oil.

Step 7

Then place the meat in the pan and fry it for 8 minutes on each side until browned. Transfer it to a clean dish.

Step 8

In the same pot, sauté the vegetables from the marinade for 10 minutes, then add the flour, stir, pour in the wine marinade, and bring to a boil, stirring constantly.

Step 9

Add the minced garlic, roughly chopped shallots and mushrooms, thyme sprigs, bay leaf, broth, and meat. Cover with a lid and simmer on low heat for 30 minutes. Then, flip the meat and simmer for an additional 15 minutes.