Chicken Marengo

This dish is pure comfort food. It is so delicious and very easy to make!

Course Dinner

Cuisine Poultry

Keyword chicken marengo, chicken with wine

Prep Time 5 minutes

Cook Time 1 hour 18 minutes

Total Time 1 hour 23 minutes

Servings pieces

Calories 260kcal

Heat a large dutch oven or stock pot on medium heat and add olive oil
While Dutch oven and oil is heating up, put flour in shallow dish, dredge chicken in flour and place in pan. Brown legs first for 8 minutes, then remove legs and add floured boneless thighs and brown for 8 minutes. Remove from pan and put on a plate, set aside
Add onion, bell pepper and sauté for 6 minutes
Add mushrooms and garlic and sauté for another 4 minutes
Add wine and cook for 2 minutes
Add diced tomatoes, all the chicken, salt, tarragon and parsley
Let it come to almost a boil and then lower heat to a simmer and cook for 50 minutes
Plate with some pasta and a salad
Eat
Enjoy

This makes a big pot of Marengo - calorie count is just for the Marengo, not what you serve with it, so for a thigh and 1 ½ cups of the gravy.

Helpful tips:

Use a heavy large dutch oven as I feel it cooks more even than a metal stock pot
Try to buy organic chicken as it's tastier and antibiotic and hormone free
While you are sautéing the chicken, gather the rest of the ingredients
Use a dry white wine like a Sauvignon Blanc, not a sweet one like Cabernet
Dredge chicken pieces in just flour
Brown chicken in two phases. Start with legs as they take longer (8 minutes), then the boneless thighs (5 minutes)
Chop the vegetables while you are browning the chicken to save time