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Spanish Chicken Stew

A delicious, quick and easy midweek meal with chorizo, green olives and peppers. Great all year round, it's light and summery, but still hearty enough for cool autumn evenings.

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Introduction

This beautiful stew is a winner all year round. It’s light and summery, but still hearty enough to warm your cockles on those dark autumn evenings. I love the smoky chorizo, which releases its paprika-rich oil and adds bags of flavour. If you want to cut the fat content, though, leave out the chorizo and add a little more smoked paprika.

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Ingredients

1 tsp coconut oil
2 onions, sliced
5 garlic cloves, crushed
60g chorizo, sliced (optional)
5 fresh thyme sprigs
1 tsp smoked paprika
1 x 500g carton of tomato passata
1 tbsp tomato purée
500ml chicken stock
500g boneless chicken thighs or breasts, skinned
70g green olives, pitted
1 red pepper, deseeded and cut into large cubes
1 green pepper, deseeded and cut into large cubes
100g fennel, thinly sliced
Sea salt
Black pepper

Method

Heat the oil in a large pan and fry the onions for 5 minutes. Add the garlic and chorizo and cook for another few minutes.

Stir in the thyme and paprika, then add the passata, tomato purée and stock. Bring everything to a simmer, then add the chicken, cover the pan and cook over a very low heat for 1 hour.

Add the olives, peppers and fennel to the pan and cook for another 10 minutes. Season with salt and pepper to taste before serving. This is lovely with cauliflower rice.

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2 Comments

    default user avatar Hammy

    Good recipe. I like to add butter beans or berlotti beans and use a Spanish sofrito so it’s more authentic

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    default user avatar Mark Stanley

    This is an amazing recipe I’ve cooked this on a number of occasions,
    I also add potatoes

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