Chicken with Red Wine Sauce

An authentic coq au vin is almost unheard of nowadays, since roosters aren’t easy to come by and are of questionable quality when they can be found. The traditional blood finish for the sauce is illegal for restaurants in most states.

What we usually eat instead of coq au vin is chicken with red wine sauce. But the inherent problem with cooking chicken in red wine is that a regular chicken cooks too fast for the wine’s tannins to soften and for the flavors of the braising liquid to