Reese Witherspoons Crock Pot Coq Au Vin Recipes

SIMPLE SLOW COOKER COQ AU VIN

Steps:

• Arrange chicken on a large sheet of waxed paper.
• Season both sides with salt and pepper.
• Lightly coat chicken all over with flour and set aside.
• Heat a large nonstick skillet over medium heat.
• Add bacon and cook until golden and just crisp, 3 minutes.
• Drain bacon on paper towels and set aside.
• Discard drippings and wipe out skillet.
• Melt 2 tablespoons butter (or heat oil, if using) in same skillet over medium high heat.
• Add chicken and cook until lightly browned all over, about 3 minutes per side.
• Transfer chicken to a large plate as done and set aside.
• Melt remaining 1 tablespoon butter or oil in same skillet.
• Add mushrooms and cook until edges begin to brown, 3 to 5 minutes.
• Add carrots, onions, garlic and salt and cook until vegetables just begin to soften.
• Transfer vegetables and broth to crock pot.
• Arrange chicken on top.
• Sprinkle bacon over chicken.
• Add wine and thyme sprigs. Cover and cook on low for 6 to 7 hours.
• Season with salt and pepper, then serve.

CROCK POT COQ AU VIN

Steps:

• Peel and slice garlic cloves. Cut chicken into pieces, or use thighs. Put in large bowl with bay leaves, thyme, and garlic. Pour enough wine over chicken to cover. Cover with plastic wrap and marinate in refrigerator overnight.
• Dice bacon. Fry until crisp. Remove to paper towel. Saute mushrooms in bacon drippings, adding oil or butter if needed, until they begin to brown.
• Remove chicken from marinade, reserving marinade. Pat chicken dry with paper towel. Brown chicken pieces in oil or butter, on all sides.
• Peel and slice carrots into 1/2 inch pieces. Put onions and carrots in bottom of crock pot. Add chicken, mushrooms and bacon . Stir tomato paste into 2 cups of wine marinade (with garlic pieces and bay leaves) and pour over all. Discard remaining marinade. Cover and cook on low setting 6 hours.
• Remove chicken to platter and keep warm. Stir cornstarch into 1/4 cup water and add to sauce. Turn to high and cook until thickened. (You may want to use more cornstarch, depending on how thick you want gravy.) Stir in salt and pepper to taste. Return chicken to pot and serve with mashed potatoes or rice.

SLOW COOKER TRADITIONAL STYLE COQ AU VIN

Steps:

• Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the bacon and cook until crisp; drain and reserve bacon. Brown chicken well in skillet; remove. Layer the onion, mushrooms and garlic in a slow cooker. Add the chicken, bacon, salt, pepper, thyme, bay leaf and cover with the red wine and chicken stock. Cook on low for 8 hours.

COQ AU VIN SLOW COOKER STYLE

Steps:

• Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Working in batches, cook chicken breasts in hot oil until browned on both sides, 4 to 6 minutes per side. Transfer browned chicken to a slow cooker.
• Cook bacon in the same skillet, turning occasionally, over medium-heat until evenly browned, about 10 minutes. Transfer bacon to the slow cooker.
• Stir red wine, chicken stock, garlic, rosemary, bay leaf, salt, and pepper into the slow cooker.
• Cook chicken mixture in the slow cooker set to Low until chicken is tender, 4 to 5 hours.

SLOW COOKER COQ AU VIN

Steps:

• In 12-inch skillet, cook bacon on medium. With slotted spoon, transfer bacon to 4 1/2- to 6-quart slow cooker bowl. Pour off all but 1 tablespoon fat from skillet; add chicken and brown on medium-high. Pour off fat.
• Add mushrooms, onions, and garlic to slow cooker; top with chicken. Add wine, rosemary, and salt to skillet; heat to boiling. Pour over chicken.
• Cover slow cooker; cook on low 6 hours, until chicken is thoroughly cooked. Transfer chicken and vegetables to platter; keep warm.
• Pour sauce into saucepan. In cup, blend water and cornstarch; stir into sauce. Heat until sauce thickens and boils, stirring constantly. Boil sauce 1 minute; pour over chicken.

REESE WITHERSPOONS CROCK POT COQ AU VIN

Steps:

• Cook the bacon in a large skillet over med/high heat until crisp.Using a slotted spoon, transfer it to a 4 to 6 quart crockpot. Add the chicken to the skillet and brown all over on med high heat. Transfer to crockpot.
• Pour the wine into the skillet and scrape up any brown bits; add to the cooker, along with the mushrooms, onions,garlic, rosemary and salt.
• Cover and cook on low heat for 6 hours or on high for 3 hours.
• Transfer the chicken, bacon and vegetables to a platter, keep warm.
• Pour the sauce into a small saucepan.
• combine the water and cornstarch, stir into the sauce and heat to boiling, stirring constantly, until the sauce thickens ,about 5 minutes.
• Pour over chicken and serve.

COQ AU VIN IN A CROCK POT!

Steps:

• -Measure 1 cup of the red wine and set aside for later use.
• -Mix the leftover wine with the beef soup base and whisk together until well combined. Pour into 6 quart crockpot.
• -Put all other ingredients into crockpot.
• -Cook on low for 8 hours.
• -Carefully take out chicken (it will be falling apart) and set aside.
• -Strain out all solids from the crock and throw away. Strain the juices into a saucepan.
• -Add the reserved 1 cup of wine into the saucepot and boil for 15 minutes until thickened and syrupy.
• -Put the thickened sauce and the chicken back into warm crockpot until ready to serve.