Skip to main content
recipe

Roasted Chicken Provençal

Chicken dredged in flour, roasted with vermouth. The sauce makes itself.

Total: 1 hrActive: 18 minDifficulty: EasyYield: 4 Servings

Timing: 60 min

FrenchChickenDinner
LineageSam Sifton
Roasted chicken in a pan saucing method · Modern recipe adaptations

Key move

This recipe is genius because it skips the "make a roux" step. By dusting the raw chicken in flour before roasting, the flour mixes with the rendering chicken fat and the vermouth to create a silky, thickened sauce right in the pan. It’s a braise-roast hybrid.

Cook mode keeps your place

Larger text, ingredients in reach, and saved step progress while you cook.

Larger textIngredients in reachSaves your place

Leagues

Put This Plate On The Line

Find the dish standard, study the titleholder, or judge the field when voting opens.

Open Leagues

The Setup

  • Cutting Board
  • Chef's Knife
  • Instant-Read ThermometerOptional

The Mise en Place

5

Your prep station before cooking begins

pantry (0/2)

¼ cupsflour(Seasoned heavily with salt/pepper)
1 tbspherbes de provence(Dried blend (Lavender/Thyme))

main (0/1)

3 lbchicken legs/thighs(Bone-in, skin-on)

beverages (0/1)

½ cupsdry vermouth(Or dry white wine)

produce (0/1)

1 headshallots & garlic(Whole cloves, peeled)

Sauce is lumpy/pasty.

You used too much flour on the dredge. Shake it off better next time.

Garlic burnt.

Keep the garlic submerged in the liquid/fat, not exposed on top of the chicken.

Chef's Notes

Tip

Pat chicken completely dry with paper towels before roasting for crispier skin.

Tip

Tuck lemon halves and garlic cloves under the chicken to infuse flavor and prevent burning.

Serving

Serve with crusty bread to soak up the flavorful pan juices.

Make Ahead

Chop vegetables and mix herbs the day before for quicker assembly.

The Method

Related Techniques

Mise en Place

The fundamental technique of preparing and organizing all ingredients and tools before cooking begins.

Collections

Appears in collections

Keep browsing by the kind of recipe choice this supports, not just this single dish.

Weeknight Dinners →Beginner Friendly →⚡Weeknight Hero →
Browse all recipe paths →

Master These Next

Roasted Chicken

Roasted Chicken

Crispy skin, tender juicy meat, legs cooked through.

1h 30m totalQuick
Lemony White Bean Soup with Turkey

Lemony White Bean Soup with Turkey

Ground turkey that actually tastes good. Scrape the bottom of the pot.

45 min totalWeeknight Hero
Saltimbocca — Sage and Prosciutto

Saltimbocca — Sage and Prosciutto

Savor the taste of Rome with tender veal, fragrant sage, and salty prosciutto – a quick and elegant dish that will jump in your mouth!

25 min totalQuick