Spanish Chicken with Chorizo and Potatoes

Spanish Chicken with Chorizo and Potatoes

Main course

Spanish Chicken with Chorizo and Potatoes - A simple tasty filling dish, perfect for the whole family

Ingredients

2 tablespoons olive oil

12 chicken thighs with skin and bone still on

750 grams chorizo (whole if baby ones or cut into 4cm / 1½ inch chunks if regular sized)

1 kilogram new potatoes (halved)

2 red onions (peeled and roughly chopped)

2 teaspoons dried oregano

grated zest of 1 orange

Spanish Chicken with Chorizo and Potatoes

Method

Preheat the oven to 220°C/gas mark 7/425ºF. Put the oil in the bottom of 2 shallow roasting tins, 1 tablespoon in each. Rub the skin of the chicken in the oil, then turn skin-side up, 6 pieces in each tin.

Divide the chorizo sausages and the new potatoes between the 2 tins. Sprinkle the onion and the oregano over, then grate the orange zest over the contents of the 2 tins.

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Cook for 1 hour, but after 30 minutes, swap the top tray with the bottom tray in the oven and baste the contents with the orange-coloured juices.

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