Coq Au Vin Is A Classic And Classy French Chicken Dish And Here’s How You Can Make It

Brent Hofacker - stock.adobe.com - illustrative purposes only
Brent Hofacker - stock.adobe.com - illustrative purposes only

Coq au vin is a classy and elegant-sounding dish that is rich and brimming with flavor. But don’t be fooled by the fancy French name.

It is really just a simple chicken stew with a scrumptious red wine sauce that anyone can try their hand at making. Coq au vin is a classic French chicken dish that translates to “rooster with wine.”

Chef Kelly Scott on TikTok (@kellyscleankitchen) is showing her followers how to recreate Julia Child’s famous coq au vin.

If you take the time to make this dish properly, you will never look at chicken stew the same way again!

First, take some chicken thighs and season them with salt and pepper. Then, marinate them in red wine overnight.

The next day, pat the chicken dry with a paper towel. Afterward, sear them with the skin side down until they are perfectly crispy.

Remove them from the pan, then sauté bacon, chopped mushrooms, leeks, carrots, diced onions, minced garlic, and tomato paste in the same pan.

Sprinkle in salt as you go. Next, deglaze with the red wine that the chicken was marinating in and add in thyme, a bay leaf, and the chicken.

Pour in some frozen pearl onions. Pearl onions can be hard to find, so it’s okay if you have to omit from the dish or substitute them with something similar.

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Pop everything into the oven at 375 degrees for an hour. The liquid will reduce and become super thick.

If you want the sauce to be a bit thicker, remove the chicken and mix together a cornstarch slurry to pour into the sauce.

Finally, top the chicken thighs with the delicious sauce. The chicken is so tender and juicy it practically falls off the bone! And if the finished dish tastes mildly of red wine, that means you’ve done it right.

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