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Chicken with forty cloves of garlic
Photo: Lily Banse

Chicken with forty cloves of garlic

21 ingredients 30 min + 2 hr Serves 4 openrecipes

This dish isn’t usually cooked with shallots but we’ve added a few to make the sauce extra delicious. Leave them out if you prefer.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

629
Calories
44g
Protein
25g
Fat
62g
Carbs

Counts 14 of 16 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 14 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Potato 1 medium (173g) baked 161
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Cream 1 tbsp (15ml) heavy 51
Onion 1 medium (110g) 44
Bacon 1 slice cooked (8g) 43
Kale 1 cup chopped (67g) 33
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Thyme 1 tsp dried (1.4g) 4
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Bay Leaf 1 leaf (0.6g) 2
Tarragon 1 tsp dried (0.5g) 2
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Sunflower Oil not in our table 0
Vermouth not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 250g/9oz shallotsshallots
  • 1.35kg/3lb oven-ready fresh chicken
  • ½ lemon
  • 1 large bay leaf
  • 1 tbsp finely chopped fresh thyme
  • 25g/1oz butter
  • 1 tbsp sunflower oil
  • 40 garlic
  • 150ml/5fl oz vermouth
  • 250ml/9fl oz chicken stock
  • 2 tbsp chopped fresh tarragon
  • 100ml/3½fl oz double cream or crème fraîche
  • flaked sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • 1 baguette
  • 1kg/2lb 4oz medium floury potatoes
  • 75g/2½oz butter
  • 100g/3½oz rindless smoked streaky bacon
  • 300g/10½oz fresh kale
  • 6 spring onions
  • 200ml/7fl oz double cream
  • flaked sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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