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PULLUS TRACTOGALATUS (Chicken in milk sauce)

PULLUS TRACTOGALATUS (Chicken in milk sauce)

(Apic. 6, 8, 13) Ingredients:

  • 1 whole chicken
  • 2 + 1 tbsp liquamen
  • 2 tbsp oil
  • 1 cup white wine
  • 5 bunch coriander
  • 1 onion
  • 3 + ˝ tbsp honey
  • 1 cups milk
  • 1 tsp pepper
  • 1 tsp lovage (or celery)
  • 1 tsp oregano
  • Flour
  • Salt to taste

Instructions:
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Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper and cook in oven, 200° for 70 minutes, adding liquamen, oil, wine, coriander and onion; stir until smooth; drain the cooking liquor and reserve. Heat milk, honey and salt; melt water and flour to make roux and add to milk; mesh repeatedly and cook for 15 minutes on low heat. In another pan, heat the cooking liquor, a little bit of honey, pepper and all the erbs, a little bit of wine; if necessary, thicken the sauce with flour. Put the chicken, cutted in pieces, in the milk sauce and pour all over the cooking liquor. Serve.

 
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