My Good Life -

Ingredients

5lb chicken, cut into 8
1oz/25g butter
1tbsp oil
15oz/375g smoked streaky bacon cut into small pieces
2 cloves garlic, crushed
2 sprigs thyme
2 bay leaves
1 1/4 pints/725ml red wine
8 Oz/225g mushrooms
1 tbsp plain flour and 1 tbsp butter worked to a paste

Directions

1. Melt the butter and oil in a large casserole dish and fry the chicken until golden. Remove from the pan and set aside.

2. Brown the bacon and onions.

3. Return the chicken to the pot and add the garlic, thyme and bay leaves.

4. Pour in the wine and cover and simmer for 45 - 60 mins or until the chicken is tender.

5. During the last 15 mins of cooking add the mushrooms.

6. Remove the chicken, bacon onions and mushrooms from the pot and place them in a warmed serving dish.

7. Bring the liquid to a fast boil and reduce it by a third.

8. Add the butter and flour paste to the liquid.

9. Bring it to a boil, whisking until the sauce has thickened.

10. Serve the chicken with the sauce poured over.