

Many of them simply have us brown the chicken pieces and add everything else to the slow cooker. There are so many different slow cooker coq au vin recipes out there to choose from. Using bone-in chicken is going to make our sauce taste incredible! BUILDING FLAVOR IN A RECIPE We want to use bone-in chicken for one simple reason: it is going to taste better.

If you are going to make the chicken breast substitution, I would add in a bit more bacon and cook the breasts meat side down in the crock pot so they can absorb as much flavor as possible. If you are avoiding dark meat, go ahead and substitute in 4 BONE-IN chicken breast quarters. You get the best of both worlds with both the dark and light meat. When we cook chicken in the slow cooker, I like to use chicken quarters. The times might be a little off, but not by much. If you don't have a slow cooker, you can achieve the same results with an oven proof pot with a tight fitting lid. We are going to cook this chicken for about 3 hours on high in a slow cooker. You're going to be amazed at the depth and character white wine brings to this recipe. I think that it is the obligatory recipe to make for any French style cooking class. When I was running my cooking school, we made traditional style Coq Au Vin just like all the other cooking schools out there.
