Coq au Vin Recipes

Now we will enjoy Coq au Vin, this food is a typical french food that will make you addicted, basically this food is chicken legs in cooking with red wine in a long time, so that will result delicious cuisine and texture of meat is very soft and added with some sliced mushrooms and french specialties that make this meal very special. Let's see about this special and delicious Coq au Vin Recipes.

Materials For Making Coq au Vin:

1.5 kg of whole chicken, cut into 8 parts

1/2 teaspoon nutmeg powder

100 grams of wheat flour

1 teaspoon salt or to taste

100 grams of chopped celery

6 tablespoons olive oil or vegetable oil

100 grams of chopped onions

2 pieces bay leaf (can not be replaced bay leaf) 1/2 teaspoon thyme

200 grams of minced ham

1/4 teaspoon finely chopped garlic

3 stalks carrots, cut 4-5 cm

2 teaspoons of salt

4 cloves

18 pieces of champignons

12 cloves of red onion

50 ml brandy

1 1/2 tablespoons of wheat flour

300 ml grape juice

How to make Coq au Vin

Clean the chicken, then drain
Mix nutmeg, salt and wheat flour, then roll the chicken into the mixture
Clean the chicken from the flour that is not attached to the chicken
Squeeze the oil then fry the chicken until brownish, then remove and set aside
Saute celery and onions in a frying pan until brownish yellow
Then add chopped ham, thyme, bay leaf, finely chopped garlic, carrots and salt
Plug the cloves in the onion, then add to the mushroom and chicken pans
Then enter the grape juice (reserved 100 cc) here I use grape juice to replace red wine, then close tightly, then cook with low heat for 2 hours or until the chicken is cooked.
Then mix the remaining grape juice with flour, stir well, add to the cooking pan, stir well then cook again about 5 minutes until the sauce thickens
Pick up the chicken and set aside chicken pieces, layout on a serving plate and strain the gravy
Coq au Vin Chicken is ready to serve with pasta, rice, boiled potatoes, or other foods to your taste.