Poulet au Comté

Chicken with Cheese Sauce

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in

By Anne Willan

Published 1981

  • About

Some of the finest gruyère, called comté, is made in Franche-Comté.

Ingredients

1.5-kg chicken

Method

Set the oven at hot (200°C/400°F). Cut the chicken* in 4 pieces. Season the pieces with salt and pepper and coat them with flour, patting off the excess. Heat the butter in a sauté pan, add the chicken pieces and brown them on all sides over a medium fire. Stir in the white wine and bring to a boil; then stir in the broth with a pinch of nutmeg and cayenne pepper and return to a boil. Bake unco