Poulet à l’Estragon

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Medium

Appears in

By Patience Gray and Primrose Boyd

Published 1957

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Ingredients

  • 1 young chicken
  • ¼ pint of dry white wine
  • ¼ pint of gravy made from the

Method

Put 2 of the branches of tarragon to infuse in some chicken stock, which has been prepared by simmering the chicken giblets in water sufficient to cover them, with a bay leaf, salt, and a bouquet of herbs.

Then melt the butter in a sauté-pan or iron cocotte and brown the chicken by turning it about and basting it with the hot butter on all sides. When it is well coloured put the