Barefoot Contessa Makes Coq Au Vin | Barefoot Contessa | Food Network

[Music] mores looking for new ways to make chicken for Jeffrey but since it's an anniversary I thought I'm gonna do something really special and make uh Cova which is a French chicken and wine with mushrooms and bacon the first thing I need is four ounces of bacon or pancetta I think just good smoked bacon is fine I put a little splash of olive oil on the pan I'm just gonna cook it for about eight to ten minutes until the bacon is really crisp okay while that cooks I'm gonna get the chicken ready so what I've done is I've asked the butcher to cut a chicken up in ten pieces I'm salt and pepper it really well on both sides okay so that's salt and pepper and I think the bacon is done perfectly someone takes it taken out with a slotted spoon and just leave the fat that's left behind for browning the chicken let's put it on a big plate so the chickens gonna go in I want to do it in batches so Browns really nicely if you put too much in it actually ends up steaming rather than browning I'm not cooking it completely I'm just browning it and all the flavors from the Browning are gonna get into the sauce so I'm gonna cook it on one side and then turn it and cook it on the other side she's looking perfect now nice and brown it's not cooked through but it's nice and browned on the outside and put the second batch in okay we'll let that Brown and wash my hands okay that's the second side brand what's perfect it's gonna take it out you know I'm gonna get some carrots and onions ready to saute in that pot I need half a pound of carrots I actually use really big thick slices into the pan one yellow onion just sliced into the pan one clove of garlic minced right in okay next thing good stuff quarter of a cup of cognac it's gonna give it the flavor of the cognac and it deglazes the pan get all those delicious crusty parts into the sauce okay now I'm gonna put the chicken and the bacon all back into the pot and all the juices that collect on the plate to have a bottle of Burgundy you can use Pinot Noir which is something really good that you would drink a cup of chicken stock and the last thing is big sprig of fresh thyme don't even pick the leaves off you can just take the stem out after it's done okay into the oven 250 degrees for just about an hour and it's gonna be so good and I'm gonna serve it with garlic mashed potatoes who wouldn't want that for an anniversary dinner almost done with a coq au bath and I just have to make garlic mashed potatoes to go with it what a great combination that's gonna be so I have a half a pound of mushrooms these are cremini can use porcini the only thing you don't want to use are those sort of button mushrooms that you find in the grocery store they don't have a lot of flavor so I'm just gonna cook these in a little bit of butter just get them browned he's a big saute pan so they brown nicely you don't want them to steam you want them to really sort of see her a little bit fantastic and I'm gonna get the of that out of the oven it smells so good okay so now I'm gonna make a little bit of a roux which is flour and butter to thicken it so I need one and a half tablespoons of flour and one tablespoon of softened butter just mash it all together and then add it back into the pot and it thickens really nicely okay that's nicely mashed up right into the coq au vin it's gonna thicken the sauce beautifully and the last really important ingredient for Coco fat little baby onions and half a pound of baby onions and I have to say the thought of peeling half a pound of baby onions would stop me from making coq au van frozen baby onions are great so right into the pot I'm going to add that mushrooms in actually leave the mushrooms till the last ingredient so they don't disintegrate and they're really great when they're just quickly sauteed give it a stir cook for about ten minutes so the sauce is nice and thick and take out the stems of the thyme and the coq au vin it's just bubbling away so I want lots of chicken and bacon and wine sauce carrots looks delicious you

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Id: EpDbcdDJPRU

Length: 5min 23sec (323 seconds)

Published: Sun Nov 03 2019