Spanish Chicken Traybake
Beautifully tender with crispy skin and full of flavour. The bed of chorizo, tomatoes and peppers are soooo good.
Ingredients
- 3 fat garlic cloves
- 1 tbsp fresh thyme leaves only
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 3 skin on bone in chicken thighs (see Notes)
- 3 chicken drumsticks see Notes
- 4 peppers any colours, deseeded and cut into chunky strips
- 100g piece of chorizo roughly chopped (we used a spicy one)
- 150g cherry tomatoes
- 2 tbsp sherry vinegar or red wine vinegar
- crusty bread or try our Spanish-style roast baby potatoes to serve (see Notes)
Instructions
- Heat the oven to 200C/180C fan/gas 6. Using a pestle and mortar, crush the garlic and thyme leaves with a little seasoning and 1.5 tsp olive oil to make a paste. If you don’t have a pestle and mortar, finely grate the garlic, then stir everything together.
- Rub the herb and garlic paste all over the chicken thighs and drumsticks to flavour them.
- Pile the peppers into a large roasting tin or dish with the chorizo, toss with the remaining oil, then sit the chicken on top, skin-side up (thighs). Scatter over the tomatoes, spoon over the vinegar and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Roast for 1 hour until the chicken skin is crispy and the vegetables have softened. Serve with crusty bread or our try our Spanish-style roast baby potatoes (see Notes).
Notes
- The original recipe serves 4 and uses all skin on bone in chicken thighs. The pack of chicken we had in the fridge was 3 thighs and 3 drumsticks. The drumsticks worked really and we enjoyed the dish for dinner one night and had leftovers for lunch the next day.
- We had some baby potatoes left and decided to give them a bit of Spanish flavouring and roasted them in the oven while the chicken was also cooking...give our recipe for Spanish-style roast baby potatoes a try!
- If you don't fancy potatoes, then some crusty bread to soak up the delicious juices would be good - the link to our recipes is below.
- This Spanish chicken traybake recipe is easily adapted if you’re cooking for less or more people.