This is going to take about an hour, but, if you follow the recipe, you will be rewarded with a delicious & fragrant dinner everyone will love!

Overview

All you are doing, is browning the chicken in a pan, adding some sauteed vegetables, adding some red wine, letting it all simmer, then baking in the oven for about 45 minutes.

Ingredients:

  • 6 chicken thighs, bone in
  • salt & pepper
  • 8 ounces of bacon
  • 1 cup of mushrooms, sliced
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 2 teaspoons all purpose flour
  • 2 teaspoons butter
  • 2 cups red wine
  • a handful of fresh thyme sprigs
  • 1 cup chicken broth

Directions:

Preheat the oven to 375F.

I prefer to use a Dutch Oven to make this dish because it has high sides and I am going to be cooking on pretty high heat with bacon grease than can spatter. The high sides help to keep the grease from spattering. Never leave the Dutch Oven alone when you are cooking with medium to high heat.

To start, cook the bacon until it’s crisp. Remove from pan & let drain on a paper towel

Increase temperature to medium high heat. You want to brown both sides of the chicken but you really can only do this if the heat is pretty high. This makes the grease hot enough to brown the meat in just about 10 minutes, About 5 minutes to a side. Remove chicken. (see my video in the upper right hand corner how I browned the chicken).

Next, add the vegetables, salt & pepper to taste, stir them until they are golden, about 10 minutes.

Add the flour and butter & mix for a minute.

Add the wine, bring to a boil, stirring mixture from time to time. Break up bacon and add it and add the thyme (don’t break up the thyme into pieces, just add the whole stalks). Simmer for about 5 minutes, then add chicken broth. Bring to a simmer.

Once it simmers, transfer to oven and bake for 45 minutes.

Serve.

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