Recipe of the Week; Simple Chicken Coq au Vin

Copyright by The Old School Housewife

Coq au Vin actually means cook with wine in French (I looked it up).  This was a recipe from my Slow Cooker cook book.  It is a simple version of Coq au Vin.  It called for dried herbs, but I have fresh ones growing in my garden so I used them.  It also says to put it over rice, but I served it with mashed potatoes.  My husband likes those better then rice.  I didn't have red wine so I used red cooking wine.  It was still good and gave it **.

Simple Coq au Vin

4-6 chicken legs
salt and fresh ground pepper- to taste
2 tblspns. extra virgin olive oil
1/2 lb. sliced mushrooms
1 onion sliced into rings
1/2 cup red cooking wine
1 tspn. fresh basil leaves chopped
1 tspn. fresh thyme leaves
1 tspn. fresh oregano, chopped or 1/2 tspn. dried
hot cooked rice or mashed potatoes

Sprinkle chicken legs with salt and pepper.  Heat oil in large skillet; brown on all sides.  Remove chicken and place in slow cooker and turn it on low heat.  Sauté mushrooms and onion in same skillet.  Add wine; stir and scrape brown bits from bottom of skillet.  Ad mixture to slow cooker.  Sprinkle with basil, thyme and oregano.  Cover and cook on low 8 to 10 hours or on high 3 to 4 hours.  Makes 4 servings.