Food Monday ~ Churchwarden Chicken

January 12, 2009 at 6:56 am · Filed under Uncategorized

Churchwarden Chicken

Serves 4 Preheat oven to 200°C

8 chicken thighs (skinned)
100g smoked streaky bacon chopped
250g carrots
250g swede
150g button mushrooms
1 clove of garlic
2 leeks
Vegetable oil for frying
450ml Churchwarden Cider

2 tbsp plain flour
Salt and pepper to taste

Cut the bacon into small pieces. Peel & chop the; carrots, leeks and the swede. Wash the mushrooms and dry thoroughly and then cut in half, peel and crush the garlic.

Heat the oil in a large frying pan, add the chicken and fry for 5 to 6mins on a medium heat until golden brown. Remove the chicken from the frying pan and put in an oven proof casserole dish.

Put the onions and bacon, into the frying-pan, fry for a few minutes until the onions are soft, remove from the heat, sprinkle with the flour add the garlic, swede and carrots also a little of the cider stir and mix making sure the mixture is smooth, return to the heat and add the rest of the cider, bring to the boil stirring occasionally. Pour all the contents from the frying pan into the casserole dish with the chicken, stir well.

Cook in the preheated oven for 60 minutes until the chicken and vegetables are thoroughly cooked.

Serve with boiled or mashed potatoes or good crusty bread.

12 Comments »

  1. steph said,

    January 12, 2009 at 10:06 am

    Grannymar,

    I knew it! I knew it! I shouldn’t have come here this morning…

    I’m fasting for a blood test and this delicious recipe has made me even hungrier!

    Am I the only one to have never heard of Churchwarden Cider? :???:

  2. Grannymar said,

    January 12, 2009 at 10:29 am

    Steph,

    Poor you… I won’t mention cream cakes so! ;)

    You can get the Churchwarden Cider in Lidl.

  3. steph said,

    January 12, 2009 at 11:10 am

    Grannymar,

    Hard luck! :evil: I don’t like cream cakes :razz:

    Did you hear the news today?

    There’s a queue forming outside every Lidl store in the country, with people wanting Churchwarden Cider ;-)

  4. Grannymar said,

    January 12, 2009 at 11:38 am

    Steph,

    Churchwarden Chicken has a nicer ring to it than chicken stew!

    I am safe anyway… the clergy are away.

    Ian has sloped off to the sound of music and Paddy Anglican is packing his bag to go sing for Obama!

  5. wisewebwoman said,

    January 12, 2009 at 3:02 pm

    I did a very similar thing with porksteaks yesterday, GM, minus the cider, never heard of it….
    I love streaky bacon with these these dishes…
    XO
    WWW

  6. Grannymar said,

    January 12, 2009 at 3:08 pm

    WWW,

    I have used beef in place of the chicken in the past. I must try it with pork next time. :D

  7. Baino said,

    January 12, 2009 at 8:34 pm

    Noice winter warmer there. Ahh Winter . . . .bring it on, I’m sick of a sweaty lip and drippy forehead!

  8. Grannymar said,

    January 12, 2009 at 8:58 pm

    Baino,

    Don’t wish for the winter, just stow in the Irish guys case and come over here. You will soon cool down.

  9. Brighid said,

    January 13, 2009 at 6:10 am

    you might like Death Chicken.

  10. Grannymar said,

    January 13, 2009 at 9:29 am

    Brighid is it deadly? :roll:

  11. Brighid said,

    January 13, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    I don’t believe it is, my crew have been eating it for a great while. The recipe’s on my blog. sorry no link, I’ve yet to learn how to do that.

  12. Grannymar said,

    January 13, 2009 at 4:39 pm

    Brighid,

    Death chicken sounds tasty and so easy to prepare!

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