Scarlett's Wiltshire Chicken Casserole

Total Time: 1 hr 15 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 roasting chicken (or breasts or thighs or joints)
• 1 tablespoon oil
• 1 tablespoon butter
• 200 g shallots or 200 g onions, in chunky slices
• 125 g pancetta or 125 g smoked bacon, strips
• 2 sticks celery, chopped
• 1 garlic clove, crushed
• salt and pepper
• 1 dash dry wine or 1 dash cider vinegar or 1 dash lemon juice
• stock
• 1 tablespoon cornflour, mixed with
• water
• 1 sprig herbs or 1 sprig dried herbs
• 150 g mushrooms

Recipe

• 1 cut the chicken into pieces, heat oil in pan and fry off on each side (oil should be very hot so chicken browns but doesn't cook through).
• 2 remove chicken pour off oil add butter, fry off onions for a couple of mins until brown,.
• 3 turn down heat add bacon and celery.
• 4 add wine/cider/lemon juice and garlic.
• 5 stir in cornflour and herbs.
• 6 mix in chicken, pour stock half way up casserole.
• 7 place sliced mushrooms on top and bake in oven for 1hr.