Chicken With Cream Sauce
Ingredients
- 1 large chicken
- 1 stalk celery halved with leaves
- 1 small onion halved
- 4 sprigs parsley
- 2 whole cloves
- 1 carrot peeled and halved
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 small bay leaf
- ½ tsp thyme
- water
- Sauce:
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- 4 Tbs butter
- 1 cup chicken stock
- ⅛ tsp pepper
- ½ cup cream
- ½ cup flour
- ½ tsp salt
- ¼ cup chopped parsley
Instructions
- Put the chicken in the crockpot and cover with water.
- Add celery, carrot, onion and salt.
- Tie parsley, bay leaf, cloves and thyme in a small square of cheese cloth, add to the pot.
- Cover and cook on LOW for 7-9 hrs.
- Melt 4 Tbs butter in a medium saucepan.
- Stir in flour and cook over low heat for several mins.
- Gradually stir in stock.
- Simmer until smooth.
- Add salt, pepper, parsley and cream.
- Remove chicken from pot, slice and serve with the creamy sauce.
