‘Cock in a van’

Name: ‘Cock in a van’
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 3 h
Total time: 3 h 30 min
Ingredients: 1 tsp garlic purée (2 chopped garlic cloves); 1 tsp garlic purée (2 chopped garlic cloves); 2 carrots, peeled and cut into big cubes; 300 g whole shallots, peeled; ½ bottle of red wine; 2 tbsp plain flour; 1 tbsp tomato purée; 1 celery stick, thickly sliced; 200 g button mushroom, halved; 1 bay leaf; 1 tsp dried thyme; 150 ml chicken stock; salt and freshly ground black pepper; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 8 chicken thighs and drumsticks; 8 chicken thighs and drumsticks; 2 tbsp vegetable oil; 100 g smoked streaky bacon, cut into strips

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Complex
Ready in
3 hr 30

Appears in

Eat, Sleep, Rave, Reheat

By Chris Stark

Published 2020

About

Slow-cooked ‘coq au vin’ or, to us students, ‘chicken and wine’ – you will hear the same joke from your housemates when you announce that you are making this, so I thought you might just as well make it the name of the recipe. The great thing about this one is that the end result genuinely made me look like I was a top-class chef. Chicken tender and falling off the bone with the crispy bacon and slightly charred shrooms! See what I mean. Serve with good crusty bread or mashed potatoes.

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