Chicken Chasseur in the Slow Cooker

This is the recipe featured on the front of the book, Slow Cooker (Quick and Easy, Proven Recipes Series)

Chicken Chasseur is such a classic dish, I'm not sure why I've never made it before. Well, today I did something about that.

I had a pleasant Sunday with the children, despite an inauspicious start trying to recapture an escaped rabbit (Oliver had found a way out under the hutch). For the time of the year it was unusually hot and sunny. We played tennis for two hours in the morning which I enjoyed more than usual because finally I feel like I'm starting to play properly - all down to my new racquet and I think playing squash once a week also helps, despite people saying that you shouldn't combine the two. 

We had a lovely lunch of fresh bread, salad and pate which we ate in the garden.

I spent some time crocheting in the sun and also quite a long period of peace when the children went to play in the park with their friends. 

After this, I didn't really feel like making a big Sunday roast dinner, instead it was an ideal time to get the slow cooker into action.

This Chicken Chasseur recipe takes about 4 hours in total to cook and uses chicken thighs and legs. The other main ingredients are onions, white wine, mushrooms, chicken stock, broad beans, sweet potatoes & tarragon.  I followed the recipe exactly and was pretty pleased with the result, even though at the point of serving my chicken was not intact, as it is on the front cover of the book - after 4 hours of slow cooking the meat just dropped off the bone the moment I touched it. I served it with brown basmati rice. 

It smelt wonderful while it was cooking. I had forgotten how nicely tarragon complements chicken and it's nice to have done all the cooking hours before.

There is still some left over which I'm planning on making into a kind of soup to put in my flask and take into work for lunch tomorrow.