Special Easter Dinner for Your Family: Drunken Chicken

• Frozen pearl onions: 20 to 30
• Chicken: 4 quarters
• Chicken stock: 2 cups
• Bacon: 5 strips (1" pieces)
• Button mushrooms: 12 -15 medium sized
• Red wine: 750 ml bottle
• Onion : 1 medium (sliced)
• Celery : 2 stalks (cut 2" pieces)
• Carrots: 2 medium (cut 2" pieces)
• Garlic : 4 cloves
• Bay leaf: 1 leaf
• Salt
• Black pepper
• All-purpose flour: 1/2 cup
• Butter (unsalted): 1 tablespoon

Dust the chicken with salt and black pepper. Pat the chicken pieces dry. Then dust the seasoned chicken pieces with the all purpose flour. Let the pieces rest and then dust them once again with the salt, pepper and then the all purpose flour as done before. Let the pieces rest.

Put your sauté pan over medium heat, add the bacon pieces. Cook the bacon until it turns golden brown. Remove the bacon from the pan and let it rest.

In the same pan, add the pearl onions and sauté them until lightly brown, season with salt and pepper. Remove the onions from the pan and let them rest.

In the same pan, add the chicken pieces. Brown the chicken pieces on each side until golden brown. Put the chicken in a deep non stick vessel. At least 5-7 quartz.

Add the mushrooms to the same sauté pan in which you fried your chicken. Sauté the mushrooms. Refrigerate the onions, bacon and mushrooms.

Pour approximately 1 cup of wine into your sauté pan. Pour this into the vessel containing the fried chicken. Add the chicken stock, sliced onion, carrots, celery, garlic, and bay leaf. Add the remaining wine. Cover and refrigerate for at least 5 hrs.

5 hrs. Later......

Place the chicken over medium low heat and let it cook for 50 minutes. Monitor and stir occasionally.

Once the chicken is done, remove it to a glass serving dish or glass bake ware, cover, and place it in the oven to keep warm. Strain the sauce. We do not want the carrots, onions, bay leaf , etc...

Place the pot, over medium heat. Add the strained sauce to it. Let the sauce reduce, should take around 25 minutes. Once the sauce thickens, add the pearl onions, bacon and mushrooms. Cook for 15 minutes for the flavors to come together.

When the meal is ready to serve, lay the chicken on the plate and then ladle the sauce over it.