Chicken, courgettes, broad beans & Pernod with herb sauce

Name: Chicken, courgettes, broad beans & Pernod with herb sauce
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 45 min
Total time: 1 h 5 min
Yield: 4
Ingredients: 200 g mayonnaise; 4 tbsp crème fraîche; 1 tsp Dijon mustard; ½ clove/s garlic, grated to a purée; 1 shallot, finely chopped; 3 sprig/s flat leaf parsley, leaves chopped; ½ tbsp chives, chopped; 3 sprig/s tarragon, leaves chopped; Lemon juice (optional)

It’s important that the chicken thighs are cooked in a single layer for Diana Henry's recipe and that the vegetables around them can be spaced out. The last thing you want is for your chicken and vegetables to ‘steam’, rather than roast.

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Serves4
CourseMain meal
Prepare20 mins
Cook45 mins
Total time1 hr 5 mins

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Ingredients

For the sauce

200g mayonnaise
4 tbsp crème fraîche
1 tsp Dijon mustard
½ clove/s garlic, grated to a purée
1 shallot, finely chopped
3 sprig/s flat leaf parsley, leaves chopped
½ tbsp chives, chopped
3 sprig/s tarragon, leaves chopped
Lemon juice (optional)

For the chicken

8 British chicken thighs, skin on and bone in
600g baby new potatoes
600g courgettes, trimmed and cut into 1cm thick slices
1 medium onion, cut into crescent moon-shaped slices, 1cm thick at the thickest part
3 sprig/s tarragon, leaves chopped
2½ tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1½ tbsp Pernod Aniseed Liqueur (or ouzo)
250g frozen baby broad beans (see tip)

Method

For the sauce, mix all the ingredients together. Taste to see whether you’d like to add any lemon juice. Preheat the oven to 200ºC, gas mark 6.
Use the biggest possible roasting tin (or 2 separate ones). Cut off and discard any flabby bits of excess chicken skin (you can use kitchen scissors for this). Halve or quarter the potatoes, depending on their size. Toss the potatoes, courgettes, onion and tarragon into the roasting tin with 1½ tbsp olive oil. Season.
Turn the vegetables over with clean hands so they’re covered in oil and seasoning. Put the chicken thighs on top, skin-side up, brush with the remaining oil, then season and sprinkle the everything with the Pernod or ouzo.
Roast in the oven for 40-45 minutes – the courgettes and chicken skin should be golden. If the chicken is cooked before the vegetables – with the juices running clear and no pink meat – remove the pieces, put the vegetables back in the oven on a higher heat, then cook until golden. Keep the chicken covered with foil and insulate it with several towels until the vegetables are ready.
While the chicken cooks, boil the beans in lightly salted boiling water for 3 minutes. Rinse in cold water, slip off and discard the skins, then carefully mix the beans into the vegetable mixture.
Move the vegetables and chicken to a warm platter or broad shallow bowl, then serve with the herb sauce.