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How to Make the Easiest Roast Chicken in Mustard Sauce

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This recipe for Roast Chicken in a Mustard Sauce is quite honestly the definition of simple French cooking, there are only three (3) ingredients, and it takes under a minute to prepare the marinade. The idea for the recipe comes from the late Lydia Marshall’s book A Passion for My Provence: Home Cooking from the South of France. I simplified her already easy recipe, using only three (3) ingredients: chicken, yoghurt, and mustard. The taste is so incredible that you will swear the dish was more complicated. However, the recipe is so simple I pulled it together the other morning before heading out to a photo shoot. Continue reading here for my original article and a word about yogurt.

Roast Chicken in a Mustard Sauce

Chef François de Mélogue

An easy and delicious roasted chicken covered in mustard sauce. This recipe requires very minimal prep only one minute!

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Prep Time 1

Cook Time 49

Total Time 50

Course Main Course, Main Dish

Cuisine French, Provencal

Servings People

Equipment

Ingredients

2 cups White Mountain Bulgarian Yoghurt or equivalent
2 tbsp Dijon Mustard
4 Chicken Legs about 1 pound (1/2 kg)

Instructions

Mix the yoghurt and mustard in a large bowl. Add the chicken and coat well. Refrigerate all day.
Preheat the oven to 400°F (200°C).
Lay chicken on a rimmed cookie sheet lined with a silpat (silicone baking sheet). Pop into the oven and cook until lightly brown and the chicken is fully cooked. The roasting will take about 45 to 60 minutes, depending on the size of your chicken legs.
Transfer chicken to a serving dish. Scrap any remaining yoghurt from the roasting pan and put it into a blender. The yoghurt will look curdled, which is ok. If the yoghurt seems dry, add a touch of water to return it to a liquid. Pour sauce over the chicken and serve.

Keyword Main Course, Roast Chicken

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Chef François de Mélogue

François de Mélogue grew up in a very French household in Chicago. His earliest attempts at cookery began with the filleting of his sister’s goldfish at age two and a braised rabbit dish made with his pet rabbits by age seven. He eventually stopped cooking his pets and went to the highly esteemed New England Culinary Institute, where he graduated top of his class in 1985.

Chef François has over 30 years of cross-cultural culinary experience and brings an impressive culinary history and a unique Mediterranean cooking style. After graduating top of his class from the notable New England Culinary Institute, Chef François began his career in a number of highly acclaimed kitchens across the country, including Chef Louis Szathmary’s restaurant The Bakery in Chicago, Old Drovers Inn, a Relais and Chateaux property in New York and Joel Robuchon Gastronomie restaurant in Paris, before opening award-winning restaurant Pili Pili in his hometown of Chicago, rated in the Top Ten new restaurants in the World by Food and Wine magazine in 2003.

Chef François resides in St Albans, Vermont with his wife Lisa and ten-year-old son Beaumont, who has proclaimed himself the family saucier. Chef François' latest publication French Cooking for Beginners: 75+ Classic Recipes to Cook Like a Parisian takes you on a culinary journey well beyond the streets of Paris. Francois is a professional photographer specializing in food/product photography, real estate photography and shooting rural landscapes of Vermont and France. Explore his work on https://www.francoisdemelogue.com/.

Take a look at his website Simple French Cooking filled with delicious recipes and beautiful photos.

How to Make the Easiest Roast Chicken in Mustard Sauce