{"id":1004,"date":"2015-03-22T22:54:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T22:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1004"},"modified":"2015-03-22T22:54:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-22T22:54:43","slug":"coq-au-vin-recipe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/coq-au-vin-recipe\/","title":{"rendered":"Coq au Vin Recipe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ingredients<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>4 Chicken thighs on the bone (skin removed)<\/li>\n<li>4 Chicken drumsticks on the bone (skin removed)<\/li>\n<li>10 Shallots (peeled but whole not chopped)<\/li>\n<li>5 Garlic Cloves (peeled but not chopped)<\/li>\n<li>1 bottle of a good quality Cotes du Rhone Red Wine<\/li>\n<li>750 ml of good quality chicken stock<\/li>\n<li>500g Lardons<\/li>\n<li>225g Baby Button Chestnut Mushrooms (whole)<\/li>\n<li>Olive Oil<\/li>\n<li>Sprig Thyme<\/li>\n<li>Sprig Rosemary<\/li>\n<li>2 Bay Leaves<\/li>\n<li>3-4 tsps of cornflour<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Method<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>In a thick bottomed casserole on top of the stove line the bottom with olive oil<\/li>\n<li>add the shallots and garlic and lardons fry until starting to just brown<\/li>\n<li>add the chicken pieces (no skins)<\/li>\n<li>fry until just starting to colour so no pink showing<\/li>\n<li>add mushrooms (whole)<\/li>\n<li>add chicken stock<\/li>\n<li>add whole bottle of wine<\/li>\n<li>add thyme<\/li>\n<li>add rosemary<\/li>\n<li>add bay leaves<\/li>\n<li>bring to boil<\/li>\n<li>simmer for 50 mins stirring from time to time.<\/li>\n<li>Taste for seasoning but I find it doesn&#8217;t need any salt as the lardons usually are salty enough. Add a small amount of salt if you think it needs it.<\/li>\n<li>in a cup mix 3-4 heaped teaspoons of cornflour with some cold water to a paste<\/li>\n<li>when throughly mixed pour into casserole and stir throughly so the sauce thickens up<\/li>\n<li>cook for a further 10 minutes<\/li>\n<li>Serve with Green Beans and Mashed Potato.<\/li>\n<li>Can be cooked the night before and then thoroughly reheated the next day for even more flavour.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ingredients 4 Chicken thighs on the bone (skin removed) 4 Chicken drumsticks on the bone (skin removed) 10 Shallots (peeled but whole not chopped) 5 Garlic Cloves (peeled but not chopped) 1 bottle of a good quality Cotes du Rhone Red Wine 750 ml of good quality chicken stock 500g Lardons 225g Baby Button Chestnut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,162,6],"tags":[287,283,282,284,285,286],"class_list":["post-1004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-france","category-recipes","tag-chicken","tag-chicken-in-red-wine","tag-coq-au-vin","tag-french-cooking","tag-french-cuisine","tag-red-wine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1006,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1004\/revisions\/1006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/markylon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}