Recipe courtesy Emeril Lagasse, adapted from Essential Emeril: Favorite Recipes and Hard-Won Wisdom From My Life in the Kitchen, Oxmoor House, 2015, courtesy Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.

Ingredients

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 10 to 12 large bone-in chicken thighs (about 5 pounds)
• Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 40 cloves garlic, peeled (3 whole heads)
• 1⁄4 cup fresh lemon juice, or to taste
• 1 cup Champagne or other dry sparkling or white wine
• 2 cups chicken stock
• 6 sprigs fresh thyme
• 3 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, at room temperature
• 3 tablespoons chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley