Slow cooker coq au vin recipe | Good Food

Ingredients

• 8 skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs
• 30g butter
• 140g smoked bacon lardons or diced smoked pancetta
• 400g pearl onions or small shallots peeled and left whole (see tip, below)
• 2 large or 4 small carrots peeled and cut into chunks
• 2 garlic cloves crushed
• 3 tbsp plain flour
• 1 tbsp tomato purée
• 300ml chicken stock
• 600ml red wine
• 2 bay leaves
• 1 large thyme sprig
• 300g button chestnut mushrooms kept whole, larger ones chopped
• handful of parsley leaves chopped (optional)
• mash or buttered tagliatelle to serve