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Poulet Poché aux Aromates

Cut-up chicken gently simmered in dry vermouth and clear broth over a bed of sliced carrot, onion and celery with tarragon: light, clean-tasting and the base for aspic, a gratin or waterzooi.

  • Yield4 to 6 servings
  • Hands-on30 min
  • Total1 h 9 min
  • Difficulty

Ingredients

Vegetables

  • 2medium carrots, peeled and thinly sliced
  • 2medium onions, peeled and thinly sliced
  • 3 stalkscelery, trimmed, washed and thinly sliced

Chicken

  • 1.6 kgfrying chicken, cut into serving pieces, with giblets (no liver)
  • to tastesalt and pepper
  • ¼ tspdried tarragon or mixed Italian herbs
  • 240 mldry white vermouth
  • 480 mlclear chicken broth, approximately
  • 1 bunchparsley, to garnish

To serve

  • 300 gcooked riceoptional
  • 600 gpotatoes, boiledoptional
  • 300 ggreen beans, steamedoptional
  • 100 gcrusty breadoptional

Diet

  • Lower sugar

Contains

  • Gluten
  • Celery
  • Sulfites
  • Legumes (any)
  • Common beans (kidney, black, pinto, navy...)
  • Wheat
  • Rice
  • Grapes
  • Nightshades (any)
  • Potato (white)
  • Onion family (any)
  • Onion
  • Carrot
  • Parsley
  • Tarragon
  • Yeast
  • Poultry and birds (any)
  • Chicken
  • Histamine (aged and fermented foods)
  • Alcohol

Taste

  • Sweet
  • Salty
  • Umami / savory
  • Richness / fat
  • Herbal / fresh

Texture

  • Tender-braised
  • Brothy

Equipment

  • Oven
  • Stovetop
  • Dutch oven

Season

  • Any season

Occasion

  • Weeknight

Effort

  • 20–45 min active
  • 1–3 hours total
  • Difficulty 2
  • Make-ahead friendly
  • Leftovers-friendly
  • One pot

Nutrition

  • Calories: moderate
  • Protein: high
  • Carbs: low
  • Fat: high
  • Fiber: low
  • Sodium: moderate

Budget

  • Budget: low

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