Coq au vin
5
Points®
Total time: 45 min • Prep: 15 min • Cook: 30 min • Serves: 4 • Difficulty: Easy
Coq au vin is a traditional French dinner dish. Cooked in the sauce, the chicken pieces become so tender and taste of tomato, spices and wine. Garnished with bacon and thyme, this fancy dish will definitely impress your dinner guests.
Ingredients
Olive oil
1 tbs
White onion
12 small, eschalots, peeled
Shortcut bacon
2 slice(s), (2 x 50g slices), fat trimmed
Mushrooms
200 g, small button
Garlic
2 clove(s), crushed
Plain flour
2 tbs
Smoked paprika
1 tsp
Chicken thigh, skinless, raw
630 g, (Buy 8 x 88g), fat trimmed
Red wine
185 ml, (3/4 cup)
Salt reduced chicken stock
½ cup(s), (125ml)
Tomato paste
2 tbs
Fresh thyme
2 tbs, (4 sprigs)
Instructions
1
Heat half the oil in a 6L (24-cup) pressure cooker on medium-high heat. Cook eschalots and bacon, stirring, for 3-4 minutes or until bacon is crisp. Add mushrooms and garlic and cook, stirring, for 2-3 minutes or until mushrooms are golden. Transfer to a bowl.
2
Combine flour and paprika in a bowl. Season. Add chicken and toss to coat in flour. Shake off excess flour. Heat remaining oil in cooker. Cook chicken, in 2 batches, for 5 minutes or until browned all over.
3
Return chicken to cooker with bacon mixture and combined wine, stock, paste and thyme. Secure lid. Bring cooker to high pressure. Reduce heat to stabilise pressure and cook for 12 minutes. Release pressure using the pressure release method. Remove lid.
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