Coq au Vin | TASTE

Ingredients

• 1 5- to 5½-pound chicken, cut into 8 pieces
• 12 oz cremini mushrooms, cleaned and quartered
• 2 tsp kosher salt, plus more to taste
• ¾ tsp freshly crushed black pepper
• 5 thyme sprigs, tied together with butcher’s twine
• 2 bay leaves
• 2 md carrots, peeled and roughly chopped
• 2 celery stalks, roughly chopped
• 1 md yellow onion, roughly chopped
• 1 leek, halved, cleaned, and cut into ½-inch strips
• 1 750-milliliter bottle red wine, preferably a Burgundy pinot noir
• 8 oz thick sliced bacon, cut into ½-inch pieces
• 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
• Chopped parsley, for garnish