This recipe for chicken roasted with chorizo and peppers is perfect for a light lunch with friends. The chicken is baked with sweet roasted peppers, spicy chorizo sausage and red onions in a tangy Spanish-style tomato sauce and the sweet potato wedges make a great alternative to normal potatoes and will count as one of your 5-a-day veg.
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| Chicken with red wine, garlic, tomatoes, herbs, peppers & the tasty spicy Chorizo sausage |
My Ingredients:
For the Chicken Dish -
1 large chicken, cut into 8 pieces
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
4 tbls olive oil
100g chorizo, peeled and diced
3 peppers, deseeded & cut in chunky strips
2 red onions cut chunky
2 garlic cloves, chopped finely
100ml glass red wine
400g tin of chopped tomatoes
2 tsp chopped fresh rosemary
2 tsp chopped fresh thyme
1 lemon, juice & zest
For the sweet potato wedges:
2 large sweet potatoes cut into wedges
4 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp thyme leaves
sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
My Method:
Preheat the oven to 180C/350F/Gas4.
1. Season the chicken pieces with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Heat half of the olive oil in a large frying pan and brown the chicken on both sides for 4-5 minutes. When all the chicken pieces are nice and golden-brown, remove them and set aside.
2. Heat the remaining tablespoon of olive oil in the same frying pan and cook the chorizo for 2 minutes. Add the peppers, red onion, garlic, rosemary and thyme to the pan and cook for another 2 minutes. Add the chopped tomatoes and red wine and stir all the tasty bits off the bottom of the pan. Pour all of this into a roasting tin and place the chicken pieces on top.
3. Sprinkle the lemon zest and juice over the chicken. Bake in the oven for 30-40 minutes, until the chicken is cooked, turning the chicken pieces over halfway through.
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| Cut the sweet potato wedges chunky |
4. Meanwhile toss the sweet potato wedges in the oil and thyme then season well with salt and freshly ground black pepper. Roast in the oven for 15-20 minutes, until lightly browned. Serve the chicken with some dressed rocket salad and the wedges on the side.
Don't forget to Feed the Fish at the bottom of this Post!
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