Chicken and chorizo hot pot
“We don't always have the time or the energy for big dinners - and life's too short to spend washing dishes.”
- 1 free-range chicken, cut into 8 pieces*
- 1 fresh chorizo or spicy Italian sausage, cut in 1cm pieces
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 1/2 onion, thinly sliced
- 1 red and 1 yellow capsicum, cut in thick slices
- 450g can Italian tomatoes, roughly chopped
- 1/4 cup white wine
- Salt and pepper
- 3-4 fresh bay leaves
- Small handful black olives (optional)
- 3 tbsp extra virgin
- olive oil
It's refreshing to scale down, to cook and eat such simple food as chicken, rabbit, beef or lamb casseroles, mopping up with crusty bread with a smear of butter.
Method
Pre-heat oven to 200C.
Use a baking dish that will comfortably hold all the ingredients. Add chicken pieces, sausage, garlic, onion, capsicum, tomato and white wine, season with salt and pepper, toss to mix but arrange chicken pieces skin side up. Add the bay leaves and olives and drizzle over the extra virgin olive oil. Cook in the oven for 1 1/2 hours.
To serve
Serve with crusty bread (or even polenta if you're happy to use another pot).
Serves: 6
*To cut the chicken into pieces, first pull the thighs away from the
sides and cut through the skin then down through the joint and remove.
Cut along the breast bone and then between the rib cage and breast
fillet until you can remove the breast with winglet attached through
the joint and repeat on the other side. You should now have four
pieces. Cut the thigh and drumstick in half through the joint and the
breast piece in half so that you end up with eight roughly equal-sized
pieces. Your butcher can do this.
