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Chicken with Red Wine Sauce Recipe | Side Street Studio Blog
Chicken with Red Wine Sauce Recipe
A casserole, from the French word for “saucepan”,is a large, deep dish used both in the oven and as a serving vessel. The word casserole is also used for the food cooked and served in such a vessel, with the cookware itself called a “casserole dish”. (Source: Wikipedia)
Large Casserole
A rich red wine flavored casserole of chicken, bacon, onions and mushrooms. Serves 4 – 6, (hot). Perfect for a cold winters day!
Apple Design Casserole
- Defrost 4 skinless chicken breasts & cut into 1 inch pieces. Slice bacon into small 1 inch strips. Peel & slice onions & wipe then chop the mushrooms. Finely chop garlic.
- Melt 1 -1 ½ oz butter and fry bacon & onions until they just start to colour. Then add the garlic for 2 – 3 minutes. Remove to casserole and keep warm. Fry chicken pieces in the same butter until they are just browning. Remove to casserole.
- Pour the red wine into the pan and bring to the boil; lower the heat and slowly to reduce the quantity by ½. Add the stock and bring to a slow boil for 5 minutes. Season with salt & black pepper. Pour this sauce over the chicken in the casserole. Add herbs. Bring to the boil. Then remove to oven and cook for 45 – 60 minutes.
- While the chicken is cooking melt the remaining butter and cook the mushrooms. Add to casserole for the last 20 minutes of cooking time.
- Serve with green beans and baked potatoes.
Covered Casserole
4 skinless chicken breasts
4 rashers smoked bacon
2 medium onions
12 – 16 mushrooms
2 cloves garlic
2 oz butter (olive oil can be substituted if desired)
½ pint inexpensive red wine
½ pint good chicken stock
1 teaspoon dried parsley (2 – 3 sprigs of fresh parsley if available)
1 sprig thyme or ½ teaspoon dried thyme.
1 bay leaf.
Pre heat oven to 325 degrees F or 160 degrees Celsius.
Small, medium or large, all of our casseroles are unique and hand crafted in B.C and will grace even the most discerning of tables. All are of course, oven, dishwasher and microwave proof. Foodsafe. Our casseroles make outstanding gifts just for you or for that someone special.www.sidestreetstudio.com
Pear Design Casserole
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