Ingredients
- 8 pcs chicken
- 250 ml red wine
- 5 tbsp vinegar [balsamic or apple cider]
- 40 grams raisins
- 8 pcs mushrooms [soaked and sliced]
- 2 sticks carrots [diced]
- 2 shallots [finely chopped]
- 2 large onions [thinly sliced]
- 10 cloves garlic [2 cloves to be finely chopped]
- 2 tbsp cooking oil
- Dash of salt
- Dash of pepper
- Dash of sugar
Method
 Wash & drain the chicken. |  Chop the shallots into fine pieces. |
 Soak the mushrooms and slice when the mushrooms are soft. |  Smash the garlic cloves using a large cleaver to remove the skin. |
 Finely chop 2 of the cloves and leave the rest of the 8 cloves as they are. |  Using a large bowl, mix the chicken pieces with the red wine, sliced onions & the 8 cloves of unchopped garlic. Leave to marinate for at least 1 hour. |
 Heat the cooking oil in a large pot or deep pan. Then brown the 2 cloves of finely chopped garlic. |  Next, add in the chopped shallots and fry until brown. |
 Add in the mushrooms and fry for 5 minutes. |  Drain the marinated chicken but save the wine marinade for use later. Add the drained chicken together with the onions and garlic into the pot and fry for about 10 minutes. |
 Add in the raisins and carrots. |  Stir and then cover pot with lid and leave to simmer for about 15-20 minutes, stirring occasionally. |
 Remove lid and pour in the wine marinade from earlier. Cover pot again and leave to simmer for another 20 minutes, stirring occasionally. |  Add salt, pepper and sugar to taste. Here's the finished dish - Coq Au Vin. |
Serves 6 - 8 persons
4 comments:
This looks mighty yummy, and the ingredients are simple too. Am very tempted, shall try this out soon!!!
Hi Chawan Mushi, thanks for the recipe! One question though: those mushrooms look like chinese mushrooms (the dried type) - isn't that odd, considering the dish is French (going by its title)? Or should we be using western mushrooms? Or have I mis-identified the mushrooms?
Also, your pics are really cool - someday you must tell me how you place two photos side-by-side together!
Finally: Sami, I *promise* I will put up the crunchies receipe soon - things have been so busy and I keep forgetting! Thanks for the apple pie recipe though....I think I shall try it out this weekend......
Mushi to codfish: Yes, you are right. You should be using western mushrooms but all I had in my fridge were Chinese mushrooms unfortunately :P So had to improvise.
To get the pictures to appear side-by-side, you need to do a little coding in html by building a table with 2 columns, then inserting the pictures in the table cells. The codes are as follows:
<table>
<tr>
<td><img src="picture1.jpg" /></td>
<td><img src="picture2.jpg" /></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><img src="picture3.jpg" /></td>
<td><img src="picture4.jpg" /></td>
</tr>
</table>
Oh cool!!! Thanks very much, CM, for the HTML tip. I appreciate it.
I have decided to try this recipe with drumsticks. I usually buy a whole chicken, then chop it up into pieces, and I always never know what to do with the drumsticks. So, please, if you know any recipes particularly for drumsticks, do post!
Hey, does anyone here know how to make char kway teow? The S'pore/Malaysia type - not the weird dark soy sauce type that the Chinese (mainland China) cook.
Oh, oh, also Ipoh hor fun!!!
Oh, oh, and bak kut teh!!! (but where to get you tiao in London???)
The memories come flooding back.....:-)
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