Coq au Vin Recipe

 Try your hand at this incredible Coq au Vin recipe by Raymond Blanc. If anyone knows romance through cuisine, it's the French. Serves 4

Ingredients

Raymond uses 1 Whole Chicken, butchered into 10 skin-on portions. You or your partner might have a preference of cut from a chicken, this recipe works with all of them but we'd recommend letting us do the dirty work and go for:

• 2 x Organic Chicken Breast Portions
• 2 x Organic Chicken Whole Legs
• 2 x Organic Chicken Thighs (Bone-in, skin-on)
• 1 heaped tbsp Plain Flour
• 3 tbsp Olive Oil
• Salt & Pepper to season
• 1 litre of good quality red wine
• 2 Large Carrots
• 2 Celery Sticks
• 10-12 Baby Onions (depends how 'baby')
• 1 Bouquet Garni (2 Bay Leaves, 6 sprigs of Thyme, Parsley stalks, tied together)
• 200g Smoked streaky Bacon
• 400g Small button Mushrooms
• 1 tbsp Fresh flat-leaf Parsley