Poached chicken with lemon & tarragon sauce recipe | Good Food

Ingredients

• 300ml dry white wine
• 1 small fennel sliced or 2 sticks celery, sliced
• 1 large carrot cut in sticks
• 2 sprigs each thyme rosemary and tarragon
• 2 large bay leaves
• about 100g/4oz smoked bacon pieces or rinds
• ½ tsp whole black peppercorns
• 1 tbsp bouillon powder or 2 stock cubes
• 1 whole chicken about 2kg/4lb 8 oz
• 1 onion quartered
• 2 egg yolks
• 142ml pot double cream
• handful fresh tarragon chopped
• 1 tsp cornflour
• juice of 1 lemon