Chicken with Dark Beer (Coq à la Bière)

Name: Chicken with Dark Beer (Coq à la Bière)
Prep time: 45 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 45 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 bay leaf; 0 teaspoons freshly ground black pepper; 2 bone-in chicken thighs, skinned; 2 Tbsps butter; 1 Tbsp canola oil; 177 milliliters chopped peeled carrot; 177 milliliters chopped celery; 2 bone-in chicken breast halves, skinned; 2 chicken drumsticks, skinned; 237 milliliters dark beer; 3 Tbsps all-purpose flour; 1 Tbsp chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley; 3 sprigs fresh flat-leaf parsley; 3 sprigs fresh thyme; 3 Tbsps dry gin; 3 juniper berries, crushed; 227 grams package mushrooms, halved; 1 teaspoons salt; 118 milliliters chopped shallots (about 3 medium); 59 milliliters whole-milk Greek-style yogurt; 2 teaspoons white wine vinegar

Chicken with Dark Beer (Coq à la Bière) might be a good recipe to expand your main course recipe box. This recipe makes 4 servings with 465 calories, 34g of protein, and 27g of fat each. This recipe covers 26% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. If you have whole-milk yogurt, chicken drumsticks, butter, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it. To use up the dark beer you could follow this main course with the Nutty Beer Ice Cream as a dessert. Father's Day will be even more special with this recipe. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes roughly 45 minutes.

Instructions

Combine first 3 ingredients; sprinkle evenly over both sides of chicken.

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Heat butter and oil in a large deep skillet over medium-high heat.

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Cooking Oil

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Add chicken to pan; saut 5 minutes on each side or until browned.

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Remove pan from heat.

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Pour gin into one side of pan; return pan to heat. Ignite gin with a long match; let flames die down.

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Gin

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Remove chicken from pan; keep warm.

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Add celery, carrot, shallots, and juniper berries to pan; saut 5 minutes or until vegetables are tender, stirring occasionally.

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Add mushrooms.

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Place thyme, parsley, and bay leaf on a double layer of cheesecloth. Gather edges of cheesecloth together; tie securely.

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Parsley

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Add cheesecloth bag to pan. Return chicken to pan, nestling into vegetable mixture. Stir in beer; bring to a simmer. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer 45 minutes or until a thermometer inserted in the meaty parts of chicken registers 16

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