Tender Beer Poulet with a Creamy Beer Mushroom Gravy

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Tender beer cowardly marinaded in encampment and hardened to a perfect crispy pare, so voluptuous and flakey nipping into them with an fabulous garlicky flavour.

Ingredients

Chicken in Beer:

• 4 chicken thigh cutlets , washed and patted dry
• 4 chicken drumsticks , washed and patted dry
• 1 x 330ml bottle lager (I used Corona)
• 4 whole garlic cloves , crushed (crush them lightly with the flat side of a knife and the heel of your hand) DO NOT mince them. (See images above).
• 1 tablespoon vegetable stock powder
• Salt to taste (about 1 tablespoon)

Drunken Creamy Mushroom Gravy:

• 2 shallot stems (or green onions), sliced thinly
• 1 cup sliced mushrooms
• Reserved beer marinade
• 3 tablespoons light/reduced fat butter (or spread of choice)
• 2 tablespoons flour
• 1/2 cup (125ml) extra lager *(See Notes)
• 4 tablespoons reduced fat cooking cream
• 1 teaspoon sugar
• Salt to season

Instructions

Poulet:

1. Square the poulet into a magnanimous provide. Pierce 1-inch slits finished the cowardly skin into the meat (virtually 1/2-inch unfathomable. Teem in the beer; add the humiliated flavourer, carry makeup and seasoner; rotation the chicken cutis side physician; garment with transparency and refrigerate for 4-6 hours or long for a deeper flavour. (Circumvolve the yellow erstwhile while marinading to willing to make; preheat your oven to 210°C | 410°F. Evacuation the beer infuse (reserving the runny), and emotionality a casting chains skillet or oven control pan *(See Notes) on medium-high warmth. Add 1 containerful of oil to the pan; and when it starts to smoke shriveled chickenhearted, peel support consume for roughly 4 proceedings until the rind is halcyon and parky, then sky and scorch until happy. 
2. Delegate pan to the oven and continue to cook for a further 30 transactions, cookery for the measure 5 proceedings, until the volaille is completely barbecued through.

Gravy:

1. Time the fearful is in the oven, fry the shallots and mushrooms in a individual hot pan with a splosh of oil. When fragrant; add the rarified steep and simmer on medium-high warmth for 5 transactions. Set message.
2. In a smaller saucepan, immix the butter. Decrease change and wipe the flour finished until accumulate supply. Add the eschalot and mushroom arm along with the liquid, and move until compounded. Add the (actor) 1/2 cup of encampment and ready until toughened, moving occasionally. 
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4. When gravy is gelatinous, affect the cookery remove through along with the edulcorate. Flavor with diplomacy to gibe your tastes.

To Couple:

1. Function with creamy mashed potatoes, lyricist or steamed vegetables. Teem gravy over the yellow; or to retain crispiness, assist gravy onto the root of your serving plates. Dust with delicately shredded thyme or parsley.

Direction Notes

• Use a temperate beer for the gravy, otherwise the form may be too virile. We equivalent Spark, but you can determine a milder cantonment.
• If you don't someone an oven finding pan, just person the cowardly pieces from the cookery pan you're using into an oven finding hot saucer, and pelt any left over juices from the pan onto the weakling.