La Fricassée De Poulet

Chicken Fricassée

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Countess Morphy

Published 1935

  • About

This is a very old dish, and was popular in the time of Louis XIV; it has remained so ever since. There are different fricassées, but the recipe given here is the most usual one.

Ingredients

  • 1 chicken, cooked in just under 2 pints of water, with 1 onion, stuck with a

Method

The chicken should be neatly jointed. Put the pieces of chicken in a large saucepan, with the onion, the sliced carrot, the herbs, salt and hot water. Bring to the boil, skim, cover the saucepan, leaving a small opening, and simmer gently for about 1 hour, till the chicken is quite tender. Then strain off all the stock and put it in a basin. In another saucepan, melt the butter