This certainly isn’t the prettiest dish but it’s full of flavour. Dried morel mushrooms are very expensive, the only other fungi more expensive are truffles. If you don’t want to use morels this is also lovely with dried ceps. If you don’t have vermouth, use white wine.
40g dried morels, washed and soaked in warm water for 20 minutes
30g butter
2 tbsp olive oil
8 boneless skinless chicken thighs
8 sprigs tarragon
4 banana shallots
2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
100ml dry vermouth
200ml chicken stock
200ml double cream
Charred leeks and spring onions
4 baby leeks, halved from root to tip
4 spring onion
2 tbsp olive oil
Preheat the oven to 220C fan. Season the thighs all over with salt and pepper. Put a roasting tin that will fit the chicken thighs on the hob, add half the butter and half the olive oil and gently melt. Lay the tarragon sprigs in the bottom of the pan and place the thighs on top of the tarragon. Put in the oven and roast for 25 minutes.
Drain the morels reserving 100ml of the soaking water. In a heavy based saucepan add the remaining butter and oil and sweat the shallots for 10 minutes. Add the garlic and morels and cook for a further 3-4 minutes. Turn the heat up to high and pour in the vermouth, allow to bubble for 2 minutes, add the chicken stock and reserved morel soaking water, bring to the boil then simmer until reduced by half.
Stir in the cream and let it bubble until the sauce becomes slightly thickened. Once the chicken has roasted for 25 minutes, remove from the oven, reduce the temperature to 160C fan, pour the sauce over the chicken, then return to the oven for 10 minutes.
Serve with mash or a baked potato and greens or the charred leeks mentioned below.
Charred leeks and spring onions
Preheat the grill to high. Place the leeks and spring onions on a tray and cover generously with olive oil. Season with salt and pepper and place under the grill for 5-7 minutes until nicely charred.
Chicken with shallots and morels
Ingredients
- 40 g dried morels soaked in warm water for 20 minutes
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 8 sprigs tarragon
- 8 chicken thighs, boneless skinless
- 4 banana shallots finely sliced
- 2 cloves garlic finely sliced
- 100 ml dry vermouth
- 200 ml chicken stock
- 200 ml double cream
Charred leeks and spring onions
- 4 baby leeks, trimmed and halved from root to tip
- 4 spring onions
- 2 tbsp olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 220C fan. Season the thighs all over with salt and pepper. Put a roasting tin that will fit the chicken thighs on the hob, add half the butter and half the olive oil and gently melt. Lay the tarragon sprigs in the bottom of the pan and place the thighs on top of the tarragon. Put in the oven and roast for 25 minutes.
- Drain the morels reserving 100ml of the soaking water. In a heavy based saucepan add the remaining butter and oil and sweat the shallots for 10 minutes. Add the garlic and morels and cook for a further 3-4 minutes. Turn the heat up to high and pour in the vermouth, allow to bubble for 2 minutes, add the chicken stock and reserved morel soaking water, bring to the boil then simmer until reduced by half.
- Stir in the cream and let it bubble until the sauce becomes slightly thickened. Once the chicken has roasted for 25 minutes, remove from the oven, reduce the temperature to 160C fan, pour the sauce over the chicken, then return to the oven for 10 minutes.
- Serve with mash or a baked potato and greens or the charred leeks mentioned below.
Charred leeks and spring onions
- Preheat the grill to high. Place the leeks and spring onions on a tray and cover generously with olive oil. Season with salt and pepper and place under the grill for 5-7 minutes until nicely charred.
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