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Roast Chicken with Hunter’s Sauce

Roast chicken with a hearty hunter’s sauce of mushrooms, bacon, peppers, gherkins, tomatoes and red wine, finished in the oven.

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  • Main courses
  • up to 1 hour 20 min
  • 4
    Servings
Ingredients

4 chicken leg quarters

50 g bacon

10 button mushrooms

2 roasted peppers

2 pickled gherkins

2 onions

2 garlic cloves

1 cup puréed tomatoes

1 tbsp tomato paste

80 ml red wine (1 small wine glass)

5 tbsp oil

5 thyme sprigs

2 pinches sugar

1 tsp sweet paprika

1 tsp salt

Black pepper to taste

To coat: 2 tbsp flour and 1 tsp turmeric

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Preparation
Salt the chicken and rub with the flour mixed with turmeric. Put in a roasting tin, drizzle with 2 tbsp oil and cook for 15 minutes under a preheated 200°C grill or top oven element.
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Salt the chicken and rub with the flour mixed with turmeric. Put in a roasting tin, drizzle with 2 tbsp oil and cook for 15 minutes under a preheated 200°C grill or top oven element.

For the sauce, coarsely chop the onions and gently fry in 2 tbsp oil for 5–6 minutes. Add sugar, salt, the coarsely chopped mushrooms and finely chopped bacon.
2

For the sauce, coarsely chop the onions and gently fry in 2 tbsp oil for 5–6 minutes. Add sugar, salt, the coarsely chopped mushrooms and finely chopped bacon.

Fry for another 8 minutes until browned. Add paprika and wine. Cut the gherkins into strips and the roasted peppers into pieces.
3

Fry for another 8 minutes until browned. Add paprika and wine. Cut the gherkins into strips and the roasted peppers into pieces.

Add the gherkins, peppers, tomato paste, 3 thyme sprigs, puréed tomatoes and finely chopped garlic. Boil the sauce for 1 minute.
4

Add the gherkins, peppers, tomato paste, 3 thyme sprigs, puréed tomatoes and finely chopped garlic. Boil the sauce for 1 minute.

Lift the chicken onto a plate. Pour the sauce into the roasting tin, place the chicken on top and bake at 180°C for 25 minutes.
5

Lift the chicken onto a plate. Pour the sauce into the roasting tin, place the chicken on top and bake at 180°C for 25 minutes.

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