![](https://culinarytravelsinfrance.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/cd007-curaceo.jpg?w=320&h=282)
Poulet au Cointreau or Chicken in Cointreau
Ingredients:
4- 6 chicken thighs
3-4 oz of Cointreau (better measurement is to just pour)
1 orange
Sea salt and cracked pepper
Water (or white wine.)
Directions:
Ahead of time, steep those thighs in the Cointreau, the juice of one orange, salt and pepper and let marinate in the fridge for about 2 hours. There is a little prep work involved.
Place the chicken in a baking dish and cook at 425 degrees for 30 minutes. Every so often add a splash of water (God no, add white wine please!)
Serve with Chichoumé and baby potatoes.
Chichoumé or Ratatouille -Languedoc-style
(serves 4)
Ingredients:
1 green pepper
2 1/2 cups eggplant
6 cups zucchini
1 onion
3.4 cup smoked bacon chopped
1 1/2 cup tomato concentrate
2 cups water
sea salt and cracked pepper
olive oil
Directions:
Peel and slice zucchini, sweat in pan then cut in small cubes.
Cut in small cubes your pepper, eggplant (peele) and onion.
Transer your vegetables and the bacon to a deep casserole and add olive oil liberally.
Cook over medium heat for 75 minutes. After 15 minutes, add the tomato concentrate.
Through the cooking, add a little water so your vegetables do not stick to the pan (not good.)
Serve proudly to your guests.
Now about those wines…
This combination of dishes makes for some interesting wines to consider. Granted the chicken with the Cointreau calls for a little robustness in a wine. So I am suggesting a couple of solid Bordeaux reds. How can you go wrong with that? But because the palate is a strange creature, I want to add a couple of selections from the Rhone valley and from the Languedoc region. A balanced approach of wine that neither sneers in the face of the dish nor lies down complacently. Clever? Yes, I thought so as well. Enjoy.
2006 Château du Raux Haut-Médoc Cru Bourgeois, Bordeaux
2006 Château Cap Léon Veyrin Listrac Médoc Supérieur, Bordeaux
2004 Saint-Estèphe Cru Bourgeois Château Beau Site
1998 Corton Château Corton Grancey Louis La tour
2007 Mas Bruguiere La Grenadiere, Côteaux du Languedoc
2009 Robert Arnoux Vacqueyras “Seigneur de Lauris” Rhone Valley