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Recipe : ** Chicken Gascon Style

Chicken Gascon Style
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Course:
Main Dish

Practical information

  • Prep time
    20 min
  • Cooking
    1 h
  • Difficulty
    Very easy
  • Pause
    15 min
  • Ready in
    1 h 35
  • Price
    Friendly budget
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Categories

Difficulty:
easy recipe
Category:
Meat recipes

Recipe's Ingredients

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  • 1 sheetbarding fat
  • fine salt and freshly ground pepper
  • 2 gg yolks
  • 4 small cloves garlic
  • 1.5 kg chicken
  • 80 g (3 or 4 strips)lean bacon
  • 50 g demi-glace
  • 30 g butter, or good-quality fat
  • 10 g flour
  • lemon juice
  • 7 ml chicken stock
  • 50 ml water
  • lemon juice or verjuice

  • Recipe preparation steps

  • 1
    Preheat oven to 210°C.
  • 2
    Remove the clavicle and discard on both sides of the breast. Lay the barding fat over the breast of the chicken and tie into place with some string while trussing the chicken. Rub the fat and the skin with a little lemon juice.
  • 3
    Line the bottom of the roasting pan with the bacon. Place the chicken on top of the bacon and place in the oven. During cooking, baste the chicken every 10 minutes with the stock mixed with the demi-glace.
  • 4
    When the chicken is cooked — 65 to 68°C measured in the thigh — remove from the oven and tent with foil and a couple of towels for 15 minutes. Defat the cooking juices and set aside.
  • 5
    Melt the butter, or fat, in a small saucepan over medium heat. Cook the flour in the butter, but don't let it brown. Whisk the garlic into the defatted cooking juices along with any leftover basting solution. Whisk this solution into the sauce. Season with salt and pepper. Off the heat, whisk in the egg yolks and the lemon juice or verjuice.
  • 6
    Carve the breast of the chicken into thin slices. Remove the legs and thighs. Arrange the some chicken breast and either a leg or thigh on each heated serving plate and spoon the sauce over the chicken.
  • Ready !