Poached chicken with lemon & tarragon sauce recipe | Good Food

Poached chicken with lemon & tarragon sauce recipe | Good Food

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Poached chicken with lemon in a deliciously creamy tarragon sauce - serve simply with rice or potatoes. Recipe from BBC Good Food

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  • Fine-mesh sieve
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  • Chef's knife
  • Cutting board

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

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