Chicken in Wine Sauce
Ingredients
- Ingredients
- 60 grams Bacon (sliced)
- 2 onions
- 2 sticks Celery
- 2 carrots
- 200 milliliters chicken stock
- 200 milliliters French Red wine (such as Burgundy)
- 1 garlic clove
- 1 bay leaf
- 2 thyme
- 4 Juniper berries
- 1 tsp peppercorns
- 1 chicken (about 1.2 kg)
- salt
- freshly ground peppers
- 2 sprigs parsley
- 150 grams button Mushroom
- 2 Tbsps butter
- 150 grams Pearl onion
Preparation steps
Cut bacon into strips and cook slowly in a not to hot pan. Peel onions, celery and carrots. Cut onions into strips and cut the celery and the carrots into slices. Add half to the bacon, sauté and pour in half of the stock as well as the red wine. Add the rest of the vegetables, the peeled garlic, bay leaf, thyme, juniper berries and peppercorns. Mix in the rest of the wine and stock.
Rinse the chicken, pat dry and cut into 8 pieces. Season with salt and pepper. Place on vegetables cover and simmer about 30 minutes. Rinse the parsley, shake dry, pluck off the leaves, chop finely and add.
Clean the mushrooms and sauté in hot butter. Add along with the pearl onions to the chicken and let simmer for another 10 minutes, covered. Season the sauce again. Serve the chicken pieces with the sauce on warmed plates.
