03/02/2026
Coq Au Vin (Chicken in Wine Sauce)
Macro Friendly Version
Think you can’t eat haute cuisine and hit your macros? No this isn’t the Julia Childs original Coq au Vin that I used to make but it’s pretty damn close. If you’ve learned anything about me I like to eat and I’m not eating just a salad or just plain chicken and rice.
Food is meant to be enjoyed, and shared but it doesn’t mean you can’t find ways to make it healthy and fit your macros. And that’s what I did here, I think the original recipe I used to make had a whole stick of butter in it, this version is way less calorie dense and I’ve found over the years all that excessive fat and calories just made me feel slow and bloated after eating. Everyone blames starchy carbs and pasta for that.
So I’ve taken this French Cuisine classic and gave it my own GFit spin.
Now here’s the interesting tidbit:
Simmering the dish separates alcohol itself from the rest of what’s in wine. So the alcohol caloryes literally get steamed away over time.
Ethanol provides about 7 calories per gram. When you simmer a dish like coq au vin long enough, the ethanol ev***rates and literally leaves the pan as v***r. When that happens, those alcohol calories are gone, not converted into anything else and not “turning into sugar or fat.” They simply no longer exist in the food.
Sadly there is no way to exactly calculate this so Ive left the alcohol calories in my total macros.
