Poached chicken with lemon & tarragon sauce

Poached chicken with lemon & tarragon sauce

Poached chicken with lemon in a deliciously creamy tarragon sauce - serve simply with rice or potatoes

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 30 mins

Ready in 1¾ hrs, including poaching and resting

Method

  1. Put the wine, vegetables, herb sprigs, bay leaves, bacon, peppercorns and stock powder or cubes in a large pan. Bring to the boil, then simmer for 10 mins.
  2. Remove any excess fat from the chicken and push it into the liquor.
  3. Return the liquor to the boil, then turn heat down. Cover and cook for 11⁄4 hrs until chicken legs feel tender when pierced. Remove from heat, stand for 15 mins, then lift onto a plate. Strain the liquor into a bowl and pour 500ml into a pan. Boil to reduce by half.
  4. Pull and cut the bird into neat portions, discarding skin, wing tips and backbone. Put on a plate and cover.
  5. Beat together the yolks, cream and tarragon in a jug. Ladle in a quarter of the liquor, mix, then pour back into the stock and turn the heat down. Mix the cornflour with a little water and add. With a wooden spoon, stir for 3-5 mins until it begins to thicken.6 Remove from the heat, then stir in lemon juice to taste. Pour some sauce over the chicken and put the rest in a jug. Serve with boiled long grain rice.

Per serving

689 kcalories, protein 62g, carbohydrate 3g, fat 42 g, saturated fat 19g, fibre 0g, salt 1.35 g

Recipe from Good Food magazine, June 2005.

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 4

Preparation and cooking times

Preparation time

Prep 30 mins

Ready in 1¾ hrs, including poaching and resting

Ingredients

  • 300ml dry white wine
  • 1 small fennel , sliced or 2 sticks celery, sliced
  • 1 large carrot , cut in sticks
  • 2 sprigs each thyme , rosemary and tarragon
  • 2 large bay leaves
  • about 100g/4oz smoked bacon pieces or rinds
  • ½ tsp whole black peppercorns
  • 1 tbsp bouillon powder or 2 stock cubes
  • 1 whole chicken , about 2kg/4lb 8 oz
  • 1 onion , quartered

FOR THE SAUCE

  • 2 egg yolks
  • 142ml pot double cream
  • handful fresh tarragon , chopped
  • 1 tsp cornflour
  • juice of 1 lemon
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Per serving

689 kcalories, protein 62g, carbohydrate 3g, fat 42 g, saturated fat 19g, fibre 0g, salt 1.35 g

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