Name: Country Chicken
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 50 min
Total time: 1 h 10 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 400 g thick-cut smoked bacon, chopped; a bunch of French tarragon; 2 tbsp olive oil; 2 tbsp grainy mustard (such as Meaux); 2 small chickens, cut into 6 pieces each (ask your butcher to do it); 5 bay leaves; sea salt; 200 ml white wine; 12 shallots, peeled; freshly ground black pepper

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
1 hr 10

Appears in

The French Kitchen

By Joanne Harris and Fran Warde

Published 2002

About

This is a simple and tasty way of cooking young chickens, and works very well with rice or pasta.

Ingredients

2 small chickens, cut into 6 pieces each (ask your butcher to do it)
12 shallots, peeled
5 bay leaves

Method

Trim the chicken pieces of fat and place them in a bowl. Add the whole shallots, bay leaves, bacon, olive oil and seasoning. Mix well, cover and leave to marinate in the fridge overnight.

Heat the oven to 180°C/gas 4.

Transfer the marinating chicken to a large roasting tin