Cider-Braised Chicken
"From a blog called The Bite House. I need to remember to pick up a bottle of dry hard cider next time I'm out and about. The picture on the blog looks particularly appealing. I think this would be delicious with potatoes, rice, barley and a green vegetable. The recipe was rewritten slightly for clarity. Update: I used four chicken thighs, and pretty much all the sauce ingredients and did not cook anywhere as long."
photo by KateL
- Ready In:
- 2hrs 20mins
- Ingredients:
- 11
- Serves:
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4-6
ingredients
- 1 whole chicken, cut in 8 pieces
- 1⁄4 cup all-purpose flour
- oil
- 2 cups hard alcoholic cider
- 1⁄2 cup tomato sauce
- 1 medium leek, sliced
- 4 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 bay leaf
- salt, to taste
- ground black pepper, to taste
- chopped parsley (garnish) or chopped chives (garnish)
directions
- Dust the chicken with the flour.
- Heat the oil in a large skillet and sear the chicken pieces for a few minutes on each side until they are golden brown.
- Transfer the chicken to a medium-sized pot and deglaze the skillet with half of the cider (1 cup). Let it simmer for a minute then add it to the chicken with the rest of the cider, leek, tomato sauce and bay leaf.
- Simmer on low heat, partially covered, for 2 hours, stirring occasionally. (I did not cook this long - more like 40 minutes, perhaps my heat was not as low).
- Add the cream, cook to heat through, and throw on some chopped parsley or chives.
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Reviews
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The sauce was pleasant, but it didn't show the hard apple cider to advantage (my most expensive ingredient); I don't think hard apple cider marries well with tomato sauce. To control the temperature, I stacked another burner grate on top of the one for my burner; even so, I had the lid half off the pan. If I were to make this again, I would be tempted to pressure cook the thighs, so at least this wouldn't be such a big time investment. Made for Please Review My Recipe tag game.
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duonyte
United States
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