Creamy Chicken & Tarragon Casserole | Easy & Delicious :)

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The sun is shining here on the west coast of Scotland…so I’m made a stew for tea! 😀

This is an absolute corker or a recipe with gorgeous rich and creamy flavours! This recipe calls for chicken thighs (which I’d never used before!) here are the ingredients – and this will serve 5 people generously!

* 8-12 Chicken thighs – boneless & skinless
* 200g (7oz) Smoked bacon lardons
* 200g (7oz) Shallots, peeled and trimmed
* 200g (7oz) Chestnut mushroms
* 3 Celery sticks, finely chopped
* 3 Garlic cloves, finely chopped
* 30g (1oz) Plain flour
* 200ml (7floz) Dry white wine
* 480g (17oz) Baby potatoes, halved
* 500ml (17floz) Chicken stock
* 2 Tablespoons Dijon mustard
* 3 Tablespoons crème fraîche
* 2 Tablespoons finely chopped fresh tarragon
* Salt & pepper

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Well good evening everyone good morning or afternoon depending on whereabouts in the world you are it’s lovely to see you and i hope you’re all doing well and having a good day and thank you very much for popping over just to see what i made for tea

Well it was actually last night so yeah tea last night was this beautiful chicken and tarragon casserole i found this recipe online and i just thought it looked phenomenal so i just knew i had to give it a go this was the first time that i’d ever used chicken thighs

And it will not be the last you know they were full of flavor and they’re actually more tender than our normal sort of chicken breasts this is everything that i used here but as usual i’ll put everything in the description box underneath the video and i’ll also pop up on the screen as

We’re using the ingredients you know throughout the recipe this will give you five to six portions if you manage to get six portions out of this it will cost you 336 calories according to the recipe which i think is not bad you know considering you’ve got

The bacon in there and the cream fresh and the wine and all those lovely ingredients so yeah 336 calories which i think is not too naughty beautiful serving mashed potato or wild rice or even just on its own we’ve done a bit of everything

So let me go and show you how i put this together and you will need a casserole dish with a lid on it the one i am using is three and a half liters and this is it here so let me just go and show you

Run you through the recipe which is very easy so this is the casserole dish like i said i’m using you also need a bowl at the back to catch your chicken as you’re frying off use whatever oil you like get your pan nice and hot and you just

Want to sort of cook your chicken in each side for three to four minutes you don’t need to cook it fully obviously because you know it’s getting to the oven for an hour i done mine in two batches just make sure you know it’s got a nice bit of color

On there and like i said i used olive oil but you can use vegetable oil or sunflower oil or one of these spray sort of light sprays it’s entirely up to you so once you’ve done your first batch just sit in the bowl there at the back and quickly get your second

Batch done i actually used eight chicken breasts in my recipe because there’s only four of us so i didn’t need the whole pack then with the same pan and the same oil i’m just going to pop on my bacon these are bacon lardons or you can just cut up you know some

Regular bacon this is just a bit chunkier you want to cook that until it’s nice and brown and starting to go crispy around the sides and just pop that into the same bowl as your chicken everything just gets done in the casserole obviously i’m going to pop my shallots and i was

Looking for baby shallots you know the round ones couldn’t find them so i used these ones now pop your mushrooms and your celery and your garlic and everything into one pan and you just want to fry this for three or four minutes just to soften up

A good bit before you add your flour and this is going to make your gravy nice and thick stir that through now add in plenty of salt and pepper to your own taste and then add in the white wine and you just want to stir this until it’s nice and smooth

And then let this boil away for a couple of minutes before adding your mustard i’m using dijon mustard once it’s nice and smooth you can go in with your stock and that’s your gravy basically done just give it a good stir around make sure it’s nice and smooth and well

Incorporated and then you can pop in your potatoes i’m using jersey royal new potatoes just make sure you slice them through the middle so that they cook in time pop those in give out another wheat stir then we’re going to pop our chicken and bacon back in and there are actually

Plenty of room in this casserole dish you know you can easily add more chicken more potatoes you know if there’s more of you and just give that a wee stir around and we’re going to pop the lid on and give this 45 minutes in the oven gas mark for 180c

Or 160c if you’ve got a fan assisted oven give it 45 minutes with the lid on and then get it out you want to give it a good stir and pop it back into the oven for between 15 and 20 minutes just to get a good wee

Bit of color on the top and it will thicken up your gravy a wee bit as well so just into the same oven with the same heat as before and you’ll have something that looks like this now all we have to do now is pop in the cream fresh

And also your tarragon and that’s going to thicken up your gravy a good bit but this will thicken on standing you know the longer you leave this and the dish sitting on your work top you know cooling down it will thicken up a good bit as well or at least that’s

What i found so give it a good stir through and just reserve a wee bit of your target for a serving and that’s it done how easy was that and i’ve just sprinkled another viva target on top just before i plate up and this was lovely i’m telling you the chicken the

Bacon the potatoes you know that lovely creamy sauce with the tang from the creme fraiche i actually think you know the creme fraiche works really well in this because it’s so creamy it just gives a wee bit of a you know a different kind of flavor to it rather than just using

Regular cream so all you have to do now is serve now i had two different options i had broccoli and that’s the stew there with a wee bit of puff pastry on the top which makes it you know a kind of pie if you like it mustard works for tea is

A big fan of pies or you know pastry and these kinds of things mean the girls had wild rice with hours and it just went beautiful with the texture of the wild rice and this was it here ever so bland looking but it was absolutely delicious

Let me tell you but just before i move on i did want to say as usual a massive thank you to the supporters of the channel over on my patreon page and to the new members here on youtube as well so thank you once again guys and thank

You all for watching if you’re still here at this point i do highly recommend that one you know especially if you’ve never tried chicken thighs before because i was really surprised that i was just something just put me off using them i don’t know what it was

I think it was a thought of the bones and things but yes these were born free and skin free so they were just chicken at the end of the day but they were just so much more tender than chicken breast which is absolutely blows my mind if you’re not following me over on

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On what’s for tea bye now