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To warm your body and mind amid the plummeting temperatures, we’re putting chicken in the crock pot this weekend.
If in many French homes, on a very cold day, the traditional chicken in the pot sits on the stove, it will be for the benefit of good King Henry IV. don’t have a chicken in the pot,” the monarch of Béarn is said to have declared, worried about hunger. which twisted the peasants’ stomachs in the 16th century after forty years of religious wars.
A phrase perhaps apocryphal, but which would confirm the chicken ocout, the gastronomic standard of the city of Pau, as the “French national dish”.
Before entering the kitchen, it is important to choose the perfect chicken. Therefore, we prefer chicken that is more than two years old. Tender and flavorful chicken is eaten with rice and topped with a creamy white sauce -something to warm your body and mind this Sunday.
Grandma’s recipe for chicken in a pot
Ingredients:
- 8 carrots
- 200 g long rice
- 1 rutabaga
- 4 turnips
- 1 chicken
- 1 stalk celery
- 1 onion
- 2 ground cloves
- 25 g of butter
- 25 g of T55 flour
- 1 egg
- 2 tbsp crème fraîche
- coarse salt
- salt, pepper
- 1 bunch of charms
- 4 green leeks
The steps
Preparation of chicken broth
Place the chicken in a large saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil and remove the first scum.
Preparation and cooking of vegetables
Peel, wash and cut the vegetables into large pieces.
When the chicken stock is very clear, add the carrots, turnips, celery, and cloves. Season lightly with coarse salt. Let it cook for 30 to 35 minutes and add the leek greens. Continue cooking for 1 hour. Pour some of the chicken broth into the pot, bring to a boil, cook the rice for 20 minutes.
Preparation of white sauce
Melt the butter, add the flour. Mix and cook on low heat for 2 minutes. Mix little by little with 50 cm of chicken broth until the sauce becomes very homogeneous. Bring to a boil. Mix the egg yolk with crème fraîche. Remove from heat, pour this mixture into the hot sauce, stir vigorously. Return to a boil. Check the seasoning.
Grooming and dressing up
Cut the chicken, serve with vegetables, sprinkle with white sauce. Serve with rice.
Source: Le Figaro
