Recipe Details

Chicken fricassee

Ingredients

• 1 x 2.5kg (5lb) chicken cut into pieces
• 1 oz olive oil
• 2 cloves of garlic - skin on
• 5 oz shallots - cut in half
• 4 oz mixed peppers - cut into large pieces
• 2 carrots - peeled and sliced
• 7 oz button mushrooms
• 1 pint brown chicken stock
• 1 bay leaf
• Sprig of fresh thyme
• 6 peppercorns

Method

1. Heat the oven to 190C/375F/Gas5.
2. Season the chicken, and seal and colour quickly in oil.
3. Remove the chicken and place in a roasting pan with the bay leaf, peppercorns, fresh thyme and garlic cloves.
4. sauté the vegetables together until lightly brown. Place them in with the chicken.
5. Swill out the sauté pan with the chicken stock. Bring to the boil, season and add to the chicken.
6. Place into the oven until the chicken is cooked through.