Coq au vin with prunes is a classic French dish that is both hearty and flavorful. This dish is made with chicken, red wine, prunes, and bacon, and is typically served with egg noodles or mashed potatoes. The combination of the rich red wine sauce, sweet prunes, and savory bacon creates a complex and delicious flavor profile that is sure to please everyone at the table. Whether you're a seasoned chef or a novice in the kitchen, this article will provide you with all the information you need to create a delicious and authentic coq au vin with prunes.
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COQ AU VIN
Cook Ina Garten's top-rated recipe for classic French Coq Au Vin from Barefoot Contessa on Food Network with Burgundy wine, cremini mushrooms and pancetta.
Provided by Ina Garten
Categories main-dish
Time 1h30m
Yield 3 servings
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 250 degrees F.
- Heat the olive oil in a large Dutch oven. Add the bacon and cook over medium heat for 8 to 10 minutes, until lightly browned. Remove the bacon to a plate with a slotted spoon.
- Meanwhile, lay the chicken out on paper towels and pat dry. Liberally sprinkle the chicken on both sides with salt and pepper. When the bacon is removed, brown the chicken pieces in batches in a single layer for about 5 minutes, turning to brown evenly. Remove the chicken to the plate with the bacon and continue to brown until all the chicken is done. Set aside.
- Add the carrots, onions, 2 teaspoons salt, and 1 teaspoon pepper to the pan and cook over medium heat for 10 to 12 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the onions are lightly browned. Add the garlic and cook for 1 more minute. Add the Cognac and put the bacon, chicken, and any juices that collected on the plate into the pot. Add the wine, chicken stock, and thyme and bring to a simmer. Cover the pot with a tight fitting lid and place in the oven for 30 to 40 minutes, until the chicken is just not pink. Remove from the oven and place on top of the stove.
- Mash 1 tablespoon of butter and the flour together and stir into the stew. Add the frozen onions. In a medium saute pan, add the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter and cook the mushrooms over medium-low heat for 5 to 10 minutes, until browned. Add to the stew. Bring the stew to a simmer and cook for another 10 minutes. Season to taste. Serve hot.
SIMPLE AND EASY COQ AU VIN
I always make this meal for dinner parties - it looks and tastes like it takes all day to prepare, but it's actually quite simple. The best part is that all the work is done before your guests arrive! Serve over rice or mashed potatoes.
Provided by Casey Rawson
Categories World Cuisine Recipes European French
Time 1h40m
Yield 6
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Heat olive oil in a large pot over medium-high heat. Mix flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1/2 teaspoon pepper together in a shallow bowl. Pour milk into a separate bowl. Dip chicken in the milk, allowing excess milk to drip back into bowl. Dredge chicken through flour mixture until evenly coated.
- Cook 1/2 of the chicken in the hot oil until browned, 2 to 3 minutes per side. Remove chicken from pot and brown remaining chicken. Return all the chicken to the pot.
- Mix mushrooms, carrots, and onion into chicken, stirring gently to distribute vegetables among the chicken. Pour wine over chicken and vegetables, stirring with a wooden spoon to scrape up any browned bits from bottom of pot. Add enough chicken broth to nearly cover the chicken and vegetables.
- Stir Italian seasoning, rosemary, salt, and pepper into broth mixture; bring to a boil. Cover pot, reduce heat to low, and simmer, stirring occasionally, until chicken is cooked through, about 1 hour. Remove lid and turn heat up to medium-high; boil, stirring occasionally, until sauce is reduced and thickened, about 15 minutes.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 514.2 calories, Carbohydrate 44.9 g, Cholesterol 90.7 mg, Fat 12 g, Fiber 3.7 g, Protein 40.1 g, SaturatedFat 2.7 g, Sodium 391.2 mg, Sugar 7.1 g
COQ AU VIN
In this classic French recipe, the wine in coq au vin mellows into a luxuriously rich, velvety sauce punctuated by smoky bacon. Earthy mushrooms envelope each piece of tender chicken-no wonder it's such a crowd-pleasing dinner option.
Provided by Martha Stewart
Categories Food & Cooking Ingredients Meat & Poultry Chicken Chicken Thighs
Number Of Ingredients 16
Steps:
- Place chicken in a large bowl, and add wine. Cover, and refrigerate overnight.
- Preheat oven to 325 degrees. Remove chicken from wine, and pat dry; reserve wine. Season chicken with salt and pepper.
- Cook bacon in a Dutch oven over medium-low heat until crisp, about 20 minutes. Transfer bacon to a plate, leaving drippings in pot. (You should have 3 tablespoons; you may need to add oil.)
- Raise heat to medium-high. Working in batches, cook chicken, flipping once, until golden, 4 to 5 minutes per side. Transfer to a plate. Add onion to pot, and cook 4 to 5 minutes. Add garlic, and cook 2 minutes. Add pearl onions and mushrooms, and cook until brown, 3 to 4 minutes. Stir in flour and tomato paste, and cook 2 minutes. Add Cognac, and cook, stirring, 1 minute.
- Return bacon and chicken to pot. Pour in reserved wine, and add chicken liver and herbs. Bring to a simmer. Cover, and place in oven until chicken has cooked through and vegetables are tender, 45 minutes to 1 hour. Discard herbs, and skim fat from surface.
ONE-PAN COQ AU VIN RECIPE BY TASTY
Coq au vin may sound fancy, but it becomes an easy French dinner that anyone can master with this one-pan technique. Everything from the chicken and bacon to the mushrooms and cannellini beans roasts on a single baking sheet. Serve up this chicken stew with mashed potatoes for a cozy Sunday supper or an elegant dinner party.
Provided by Betsy Carter
Categories Dinner
Time 1h5m
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 15
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
- On a rimmed baking sheet, combine the carrots, shallot, garlic, olive oil, ½ teaspoon salt, and the pepper. Toss until well coated, then spread in an even layer.
- Arrange the bacon and chicken thighs on top of the carrots and season the chicken with the remaining ½ teaspoon salt. Drizzle with ¼ cup (60 ml) of chicken stock. Top with the rosemary and thyme.
- Roast the chicken and vegetables for 20 minutes.
- Reduce the oven temperature to 350°F (180°C). Remove the pan from the oven and add the mushrooms and cannellini beans. Drizzle with the remaining ¼ cup (60 ml) chicken stock and the Pinot Noir.
- Return to the oven and bake for 20 minutes. Turn the broiler to high and broil for 4-5 minutes, until the bacon and chicken skin are crispy and golden brown.
- Spoon the coq au vin over the mashed potatoes and serve warm.
- Enjoy!
Nutrition Facts : Calories 1371 calories, Carbohydrate 212 grams, Fat 48 grams, Fiber 19 grams, Protein 62 grams, Sugar 14 grams
COQ AU VIN WITH PRUNES
The standard coq au vin, even when it is made with shortcuts, is a hearty dish, what with its bacon, garlic, deep red wine and enrichment of butter. But the one I like best is made with prunes: it's darker, richer, fuller, the kind of recipe one adores and makes repeatedly. The prunes melt into the wine and become barely recognizable, bringing even more depth, not only of color but of flavor. Despite its relative ease of preparation, this becomes a serious dish, the kind that demands plenty of bread so that you can linger over the juices. Feel free to play with variations here: sauté some sliced button mushrooms, a dozen or more peeled pearl onions or whole cloves of garlic (but don't omit the chopped onions) in the skillet after you've cooked the bacon.
Provided by Mark Bittman
Categories dinner, poultry, main course
Time 1h
Yield 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Put oil in a large skillet, preferably nonstick, and turn heat to medium-high. A minute later, add as many chicken pieces as will fit without crowding, skin side down. Cook, rotating pieces and adjusting heat as necessary to cook them evenly, until nicely browned on skin side, about 5 minutes; turn and brown on other sides. As pieces are done, sprinkle them with salt and pepper, transfer them to a large casserole, and add remaining pieces. The entire process will take about 15 minutes.
- When chicken is all browned, add onions to fat remaining in skillet; cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until softened, 3 to 5 minutes, then transfer them to casserole. Add salt pork or bacon to skillet, if you are using one of them, and cook, stirring occasionally, until brown and crisp, about 5 minutes; transfer to casserole and drain all but 1 tablespoon of fat. Turn heat to medium, add garlic and, 30 seconds later, the prunes. Cook for a minute, stirring once or twice, then add to casserole.
- Turn heat under skillet to high and add half the wine. Cook, stirring and scraping bottom of pan to remove any solid particles there, until wine is reduced by half. Pour into casserole along with remaining wine. Turn heat under casserole to high and bring to a boil; stir, then reduce heat to low and cover. Simmer, stirring once or twice, until chicken is done, about 30 minutes. Remove top, stir in optional butter, if using, and raise heat to high; cook until sauce thickens a bit. Taste and adjust seasoning if necessary. Garnish with parsley and serve.
Nutrition Facts : @context http, Calories 922, UnsaturatedFat 25 grams, Carbohydrate 82 grams, Fat 39 grams, Fiber 9 grams, Protein 46 grams, SaturatedFat 11 grams, Sodium 1206 milligrams, Sugar 46 grams, TransFat 0 grams
COQ AU VIN WITH PLUMP PRUNES
Comforting, tasty chicken dish with delicious prunes and a rich red wine sauce - can be made two days in advance
Provided by Good Food team
Categories Dinner, Main course
Time 3h15m
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Reduce the wine by half over a high heat - this takes 15-20 minutes. Leave to cool a little then pour it over the chicken in a shallow dish and leave to marinate for 10- 15 minutes. This done, drain the chicken and pat it dry. Keep the marinade for the sauce.
- Preheat the oven to 110C/Gas 1⁄4/fan 90C. Heat the oil in a large flameproof casserole. (If you don't have one, do this in a large saucepan.) Season the chicken, then fry to colour in the oil for 5 minutes. Reduce the heat, add the butter and caramelise for a further 5-10 minutes, until the chicken is a beautiful dark brown colour.
- Pour off the fat, add the tomatoes and cook over a high heat for 2 minutes so they start to caramelise and get wonderfully roasty toasty. Spoon in the flour, stirring well to make sure you don't get any lumps. Now gradually pour in the reduced wine, stirring like mad, then just enough water (about 500ml/18fl oz), to cover the chicken. Drop in the bouquet garni, if using, and orange zest.
- Bring the liquid gently to the boil, tip in the prunes and skim the top (if you've used a saucepan, tip into a casserole now). Braise in the oven, with the lid slightly ajar, for 2 hours. Make absolutely sure the liquid never boils. Check to see if the chicken is tender enough to eat with a spoon - it should be falling apart - then take out of the oven.
- Lift out the chicken and prunes into a serving dish and keep warm. Reduce the sauce until it is rich in colour and strong in taste, with the thickness of a gravy. If necessary, when it has the strong taste you want but is not thick enough, thicken with a little cornflour dissolved in water. Season with salt, sugar and black pepper, then strain it back over the chicken and prunes. Serve sprinkled with the orange zest and parsley.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 714 calories, Fat 37 grams fat, SaturatedFat 12 grams saturated fat, Carbohydrate 33 grams carbohydrates, Sugar 1 grams sugar, Fiber 1 grams fiber, Protein 34 grams protein, Sodium 0.42 milligram of sodium
COQ AU VIN NOUVEAU
Pitted prunes replace the more customary mushrooms in this delicious variation.
Yield Serves 4
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Fry bacon in heavy large skillet over medium heat until brown and crisp. Transfer to paper towels and drain. Season chicken with salt and pepper and sauté until just cooked through, about 6 minutes per side. Transfer chicken to plate. Add onions to skillet and sauté until beginning to brown, about 4 minutes. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons drippings from skillet. Add broth, wine, prunes, gravy and thyme. Cover skillet and simmer until onions are just tender, about 6 minutes. Uncover, increase heat to high and boil until sauce coats spoon, about 10 minutes. Return chicken and any juices to skillet. Simmer until chicken is heated through, about 2 minutes. (Can be prepared 1 day ahead. Cover and refrigerate. Reheat gently before serving.) Arrange chicken on platter. Spoon sauce over. Crumble bacon over top of chicken and serve.
COQ AU VIN WITH PRUNES
The chicken must be well browned before the rest of the dish is cooked, and in this instance there is no hurrying the process. Take your time and brown each piece of chicken well; especially if you're cooking for eight or more, this will take a while, as you'll have to brown in batches.
Yield makes 4 servings
Number Of Ingredients 10
Steps:
- Put the oil in a large skillet, preferably nonstick, over medium-high heat. When hot, add as many of the chicken pieces as will fit without crowding, skin side down. Cook, rotating the pieces and adjusting the heat as necessary to rown them evenly, about 5 minutes; turn and brown on the other side(s). As the pieces are done, sprinkle them with salt and pepper and transfer them to a large casserole.
- Add the onion to the fat remaining in the skillet and cook over medium-high heat, stirring occasionally, until softened, 5 minutes or so. Transfer it to the casserole, add the salt pork or bacon if you're using it, and cook, stirring occasionally, until brown and crisp, about 5 minutes; transfer to the casserole and drain all but 1 tablespoon of the fat. Turn the heat under the skillet to medium and add the garlic and, 30 seconds later, the prunes. Cook for a minute, stirring once or twice, then add to the casserole.
- Turn the heat under the skillet to high and add half the wine. Cook, stirring and scraping the bottom of the pan to release any solid particles there, until the wine is reduced by half. Pour into the casserole along with the remaining wine. Turn the heat under the casserole to high and bring to a boil; stir, then reduce the heat to low and cover. Simmer, stirring once or twice, until the chicken is done, about 30 minutes. Remove the top, stir in the butter if you like, and raise the heat to high; cook until the sauce thickens a bit. Taste and adjust the seasoning if necessary, garnish with parsley, and serve.
Tips and tricks:
- Use a large, heavy pot or Dutch oven with a tight-fitting lid. This will help the chicken cook evenly and prevent the sauce from reducing too much.
- Brown the chicken in batches. This will help to develop flavor and color.
- Don't be afraid to use a variety of vegetables. Carrots, onions, celery, and mushrooms are all classic additions, but you can also use leeks, parsnips, or turnips.
- Use a good quality red wine. A Burgundy or Pinot Noir is a good choice.
- Simmer the chicken for at least 1 hour, or until the meat is fall-off-the-bone tender.
- Serve the coq au vin with mashed potatoes, egg noodles, or rice.
Conclusion:
Coq au vin is a classic French dish that is perfect for a special occasion. It is a hearty and flavorful stew that is sure to please everyone at the table. If you are looking for a new recipe to try, I highly recommend coq au vin. You won't be disappointed!
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