Spanish chicken with chorizo, peppers and olives is a simple to prepare one pan dish that is perfect for sharing with friends over an informal dinner or feeding a hungry family.
Welcome to Friends in the Kitchen the posts that feature one of my friends sharing a recipe from their own kitchens. Today we meet Wendy, a long time friend of mine that I met in the early days of my career as a cookery writer.
I first met Wendy when I started at Woman's Realm Magazine ( it no longer exists but in the 80's a weekly woman's magazine with a large circulation). I joined as Senior Home Economist and when Wendy was promoted to Cookery Editor ,a year or so later she asked me to be her Deputy Cookery Editor.
We worked together full time for about 4 years before both pursuing our own freelance careers and have remained friends ever since. Occasionally we work on the same projects including the Baked and Delicious partwork magazine where we were joint editors.
If we don't meet up through work then we get together socially a couple of times a year to catch up and it was on one such occasion I asked her to be my next friend in the kitchen.
Wendy splits her time between her home in Essex and a flat in the Barbican which is where we met up for this shoot. Having written more than 30 books as well as writing many recipes for various magazines etc it could have been hard to pick one dish to share but Wendy suggested she picked one of the recipes from her latest book - The Europhile's Cookbook.
The Europhile's Cookbook
The Europhile's Cookbook - Ebury Press was written to celebrate 25 years of the Channel Tunnel and features recipes from all over Europe.
More than just the recipes it is also a combination of discoveries, experiences and stories contributed by those who spent the last 25 years travelling and working for the Euro tunnel.
The Book is available from all good book sellers but Wendy has given me one signed copy to giveaway to one lucky reader. More on that below.
Spanish Chicken with Chorizo, Peppers and Olives
Wendy chose to share Spanish Chicken with chorizo peppers and olives which is an easy to prepare one pot recipe full of flavour.
When working in London she stays at her flat and often combines that with entertaining friends or popping to see a show or concert. So this is just type of dish she would choose to cook on such occasions. Colourful and full of gutsy flavours.
Its quick to prepare and can be prepared in advance ready to go into the oven when she gets back from work. One pot means less washing up too although when entertaining she does transfer it to a serving dish.
Spanish chicken with chorizo, peppers and olives
Ingredients
- 8 chicken thighs on the bone skin on
- 2 teaspoon smoked paprika
- 3 tablespoon olive oil
- 100 g chorizo cut into rounds
- 225 g small new potatoes halved
- 2 red onions peeled and cut into wedges
- 1 red pepper deseeded and cut into small chunks
- 1 yellow or orange pepper deseeded and cut into small chunks
- 1 green pepper deseeded and cut into small chunks
- 4 large garlic cloves left whole with skins on
- Juice of 1 lemon
- 3 tablespoon chopped fresh oregano
- 1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
- Freshly ground black pepper
- 100 g pitted black olives
- 4 tomatoes cut into quarters
- 75 ml dry sherry
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 180ºC (160ºC fan)/ 350°F/Gas mark 4
- Dust 8 chicken thighs with the paprika and lay them in a single layer in a large roasting tin. Drizzle with 1 tablespoon of the olive oil and add 100g (3½oz) sliced chorizo to the tin.
- Put 225g (8oz) small potatoes, halved, 2 red onions, cut into wedges and 1 each, red yellow and green pepper, cut into small chunks in a large bowl. Add 2 tablespoon olive oil, then stir everything together to coat in the oil.
- Tip the vegetables into the roasting tin around the chicken and tuck the 4 whole garlic cloves among them.
- Squeeze the juice of 1 lemon juice over the vegetables and chicken and sprinkle with 2 tablespoon of chopped fresh oregano, and 1 tablespoon chopped thyme and season with plenty of black pepper. Roast in the preheated oven for 45 minutes.
- Turn the vegetables over, add 100g (3½oz) black pitted olives and 4 tomato cut into quarters to the tin and spoon 75ml (5tbsp) dry sherry over the chicken. Roast for a further 15 minutes or until the chicken is cooked and the vegetables are tender. Serve sprinkled with 1 tablespoon chopped oregano.
Notes
- Use 2 teaspoon dried oregano and 1 teaspoon of dried thyme if you can not get fresh. You can also garnish with lemon wedges.
- Substitute dry white wine for the sherry if preferred.
- Freeze for up to 2 months, Defrost fully and reheat until piping hot.
- Variation : Add some orange wedges 20 minutes before the end of cooking.
Nutrition
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Maddy Mills
This was really easy to make and absolutely delicious! Thank you. I did forget the sherry, but it still tasted yummy! i made a side dish of warm chickpeas with paprika, garlic, scallions and cilantro and a separate small dish of rice. Lovely
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
So pleased you like it. Your side dish sounds perfect what a delicious meal!
Theresa THomas
Quesadilla
Angela Macdonald
I love moussaka
Tracey Anderson
Stuffed Aubergines are just so delicious! 🙂
Adrian Bold
Spaghetti Bolognese
Karen R
Wiener Schnitzel xx
Angela Kelly
I love anything Italian, but lasagne with tons of cheese is my absolute favourite.
Marie Rungapadiachy
I love spaghetti carbonara. It consists of all the ingredients that I love the most.
Anthony Green
I love potatas bravas
Katrina Adams
I love a full english breakfast with all the trimmings - bacon, eggs, sausages, mushrooms, tomatoes and some potato waffles if we have them.
Miss Tracy Hanson
Love Lasagne and Ravioli. Thanks for the chance. Great prize.
Leslie Evans
Spaghetti Bolognese
chris bull
Fideua. I first tried this when on holiday in Spain and was blown away, I love the skinny noodles instead of rice and it super easy to make too 🙂
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I don't know this dish I must check it out
paula cheadle
I love my own version of risotto
Janine H
It's got to be a Sunday Roast - Beef, Yorkshire puds, roast potatoes, loads of veg and onion gravy.
Summer Rowley
I love Patas Bravas!
Laura pugh
paella!! delicious, make me think of holidays, lots of healthy ingredients, and a great one-pot meal to make!
Sheri Darby
I love moussaka
Kathleen Chilvers
I love a pasta dish with lots of vegetables
Chris Johnson-Smith
chorizo al vino - made over 2 days to allow the wine to infuse the sausage (and vis versa) Served with crusty bread
Jane Willis
A Sardinian dish of Trofie pasta with Gorgonzola and walnuts
Sheila Reeves
Paella, nice and easy to make, and can vary it depending on what is in the frisge
Heli L
Anything Italian, especially Spaghetti Bolognese or Margherita pizza
Lesley Garden
Favourite European dish has to be a bowl of courgette and lemon pasta I had in Capri this Summer on holiday. It's one of the simplest dishes I've eaten but easily the best bowl of pasta I've ever eaten.
Danielle Spencer
I love a good pizza
Kim M
Love lasagne - I'm a big pasta fan x
Meryl Thomas
I love all Italian food and in particular pizza
Gaynor Vincent
I love pork goulash - tried it first in Germany and been hooked ever since
Carole Nott
I particularly like Italian food - especially all pasta dishes with rich sauces
Emma England
My favourite European dish to make is goulash because I can just throw it all in the slow cooker and it’s super tasty.
I like the sound of this recipe, I’ll give this a go next week.
Hayley Lynch
Seafood rissotto
Sarah McCaffery
I would say a calzone pizza.
Mark Mccaffery
Chickpea and chorizo soup.
janine atkin
a freshly made pizza
Rachel
You can't beat coq au vin on a cold, miserable day. Thanks
Keith Hunt
Roasted Buckwheat with Mushrooms and Onions
Joanne
Looks great!
Melissa Lee
I think it would have to be something Italian. I am a little obsessed with cannelloni.
Cat D
This looks yummy! We’re a busy family of four so traybakes are the perfect dinner solution. Do you think this would work in the slow cooker too?
As we come into autumn I’m looking forward to our favourite European stews, some yummy stroganoff, goulash, or bourginonne (huge apologies if I’ve spelt that completely wrong!). Thanks for sharing your recipe!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Hi Cat
I think the recipe probably would work in a slow cooker but you will not get any browning/crisping of the skin on the chicken. I havent tried it but if I did I think I would either brown the chicken first or remove the skin. If you try it do let me know if it works.
Sacha stacey
Love a good Italian pasta dish
Eb Gargano | Easy Peasy Foodie
What a fab recipe! I am a big fan of Spanish Chicken (I shared my own recipe recently!) - this one is done differently to mine, but sounds equally tasty. Love the sound of the book too - I am most definitely a Europhile - in every respect...whether that's in reference to visiting the countries, learning the languages - and especially eating the FOOD! Eb x
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Im no good at languages but visiting and eating the foods I'm very much a Europhile too
Maria F
Caldo Gallego for me - nothing better on a cold winter's day!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Not sure I have ever eaten that must look it up
CLAIRE WOODS
Paella.
Emma Ellams
Paella is my absolute favourite but there are so many wonderful dishes to choose from!
Lynn Neal
Mushroom risotto !
Gillian Hitchen
Lasagne
Samantha
Pasta is a favourite in our house
melanie stirling
My ultimate favourite is lasagne but I like any pasta dishes and also chicken piri piri.
Paul Andrew Bingham
Spanish Omelette
Ruth Harwood
Any pasta dish is good for me! xx
cheryl hadfield
I love coq au vin
Dale Dow
Has to be spaghetti bolognase, so easy to make and we all find it tasty too
Anthony G.
Anything Italian, pasta dishes in particular
Helen - Cooking with my kids
This sounds delicious - I love chicken and chorizo so this is right up my street and perfect for this time of year!
Laura Pritchard
Apple Strudel
Iain MacIver
Paella
Corina Blum
I love Spanish chicken recipes and this definitely has all the flavours I love! It's so hard for me to pick a favourite European recipe as there are hundreds I love. Maybe I'll have to say Italian pizza as that's what I'm making today for dinner!
Lisa Rickard
I LOVE RISOTTO
clair downham
a good paella thankyou
Margaret Clarkson
I must choose the same as previous posters - Goulash. We adore paprika in our family.
Karen Barrett
Irish Winter Stew
Veronica
I have so many favourite European dishes - but I think the one that wins hands down has to be a Hungarian Goulash, flavoured with authentic Hungarian paprika and served with homemade noodles that I ate one winter's day in a tiny little restaurant in Budapest. I don't know whether it was the atmosphere created by the log fire in the fireplace, or the glass of Hungarian Red that accompanied it, but that was one of the most delicious meals I have ever eaten.
Margaret Gallagher
Paella - so tasty and filling
Kaz Angelac
I love freshly made Italian food
Emma Morgan
I do love a goulash
Solange
Paella
pete c
my favourite has got to be Italian - a nice Lasagna
Andrea Upton
This sounds like a lovely warming recipe, I like a nice Beef Bourguignon
Jo Allison / Jo's Kitchen Larder
Lovely recipe! I make very similar Spanish traybake style dish for my lot and it's always devoured with pleasure. I like the sound of dry sherry added towards the end, yum!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
I think the sherry is a good addition too.
Chloe Edges
Oh yum, I love anything with chicken and chorizo! I've had to think quite hard about my favourite European dish but I've decided on Roast Belly Pork with all the Sunday trimmings and Yorkshires. The UK is still in Europe thus far so I've decided that it counts!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Good choice.
Janice
This is absolutely my kind of cooking. I love European food and particularly the food of Italy. So my dish would be an Italian Antipasti platter served with big chunks of country style bread.
Lizet
I love one-pot meals. And this one sounds delicious with all those flavors. Would love to sit down and see you both cook. So much knowledge!
Thanks for sharing at #CookBlogShare
CAMILLA HAWKINS
What a fabulous looking and healthy dish, love clean simple dishes like this. I would love to win a copy of the book!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Its a nice book was tempted to keep it for myself!
Hannah
This looks absolutely delicious - and I love the sound of the cookbook! My favourite European dish has to be a good Italian risotto for sure - either that or a classic carbonara - I’m definitely an Italian kinda gal!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Ah yes I love Italian food too
Margaret Mccaffery
My favourite European dish is a coq au vin.
Donna
I love Spanish Chicken! I'd have to skip the olives, but the rest sounds yummy!
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Have to say Im not too keen on olives in hot dishes either but easily left out
Natalie Charman
I love making a Spanish chicken tray bake.
Michelle Rolfe
Jacqui I love the sound of this recipe, yes with a glass or red or even that sherry! 🙂 Definitely the perfect time of year for the warming spices or paprika and chorizo. Now on my list. Cheers, Michelle x
Jacqueline Bellefontaine
Its a very tasty and easy recipe to prepare I d variations on the them all the time.
Tammy Neal
Spanish chicken