Slow Cooker Chicken Chasseur

    15m prep time
    410m total time
    Easy level
    14 ingredients

Throw a handful of ingredients in the slow cooker at the start of the day and this classic French chicken chasseur will be ready by the time you get home. Perfect served with creamy mash or rice and crunchy green beans coated in a little bit too much butter.

Method

Based on 4 servings, adjust as needed.

Step 1

Heat the slow cooker to low. Put the oil in a frying pan over a medium-high heat. Season the chicken thighs and fry, skin-side down, for 4-5 mins until crisp. Turn and fry for 3-4 mins more until golden all over. Put on a plate and set aside.

Step 2

Tip the shallots into the pan and fry for 10 mins over a medium heat until soft. Add the garlic and mushrooms and fry for 10 mins more until the mushrooms are golden. Pour in the wine and bubble for a few minutes until reduced by half. Stir in the tomato purée, tomato passata and thyme and bay leaves. Season well and bring to a simmer.

Step 3

Tip the sauce into the slow cooker, and top with the chicken thighs (in one layer, if possible). Pour over the **chicken stock **until the chicken thighs are covered, adding a little more if needed. Cover and cook for 6-8 hrs on loquntil the sauce has thickened and the chicken is tender. Transfer the chicken to a plate and bubble the sauce for a few minutes more with the lid off, if you prefer a thicker sauce (you can only do this if there’s a reduce function on the slow cooker. If not, pour the sauce into a pan and simmer until reduced). Remove the skin from the chicken before serving, if you like.

Step 4

Sprinkle over the parsley and serve the chicken and sauce with buttery mash, jackets, pasta or small roast potatoes, if you like.
  • Ingredients
  • Based on 4 servings
  • 4 Garlic Cloves, crushed 1 x Sainsbury's Large Garlic
  • 2 Shallots, or onion, finely chopped 1 x Sainsbury's Echalion Shallots 400g
  • 1 Bay Leaf 1 x Sainsbury's Bay Leaves 3g
  • 800g Mash Potatoes, jackets or rice or to serve 2 x Sainsbury's Mashed Potato Seasoned with Cracked Black Pepper, Taste the Difference 400g
  • 1 Chicken Thighs, skin-on and bone-in 1 x Sainsbury's 1kg British Fresh Chicken Skin on Thighs
  • 200g Baby Chestnut Mushrooms, halved 1 x Sainsbury's 200g Baby Button Chestnut Mushrooms
  • 190ml White Wine, approx 1 x Sainsbury's House Pinot Grigio White Wine (Small bottle) 18.7cl
  • 1.5tbsp Tomato Purée 1 x Sainsbury's Tomato Puree, Double Concentrate 200g
  • 2 Thyme Sprigs 1 x Sainsbury's Bunched Thyme 20g
  • 15g Parsley, finely chopped 1 x Sainsbury's Fresh Packed Flat Leaf Parsley 30g
  • 400ml Hot Chicken Stock 1 x Knorr Stock Pot Chicken 4x28g
  • 2tbsp Olive Oil 1 x Sainsbury's Olive Oil, Extra Virgin 1L
  • 500g Tomato Passata 1 x Sainsbury's Passata 500g
  • 200g Green Beans, or any greens 1 x Sainsbury's 200g Extra Fine Green Beans,Taste the Difference
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