[london.food] Coq au vin and leftover

[prev] [thread] [next] [lurker] [Date index for 2005/11/23]

From: Rev Simon Rumble
Subject: [london.food] Coq au vin and leftover
Date: 10:36 on 23 Nov 2005
Was in Devon this weekend in a big house with 16 people and made Coq au
Vin for dinner using Nigel Slater's recipe:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/life/story/0,6903,605460,00.html

It's a good reproduction of the classic.

Anyway, we had three BIG chickens--I asked my butcher for old birds with
gristle and muscles that had been used, and he obliged--and with all the
veggies and stuff ended up with lots leftover.  So on the Sunday night,
for the remaining 11 people I made chicken meatballs to go with a red
pasta sauce.

Leftover chicken from coq au vin, taken off the bones and shredded
Handful of chopped thyme
Handful of chopped rosemary
Salt and pepper
2 large eggs
Handful of flour
Some of the (now) goopy, gelatinous stuff from the coq au vin, for
moisture

Mix it all together.  Shape it into balls, dust with flour and put on a
greased baking tray.  Bake for 30 minutes at 180 degrees.  Make sure
they're piping hot: this is chicken after all and you have to kill the
bugs.

Yum!

I probably could have used more of the liquid goop to make them moister,
as they were a bit dry.

I have another of the chickens in the freezer.  Anyone got a good chicken
casserole recipe?

Generated at 00:02 on 25 Nov 2005 by mariachi 0.41