- Serves2
- CourseMain meal
- Prepare10 mins
- Cook55 mins
- Total time1 hr 5 mins
- Plusstanding
Ingredients
- ½ tbsp Essential Olive Oil
- 4 Essential British Chicken Thighs
- 1 Essential Red Onion, halved and sliced
- 1 clove garlic, crushed
- 100g LoveLife Quick Cook Italian Spelt, rinsed
- 250ml fresh Cooks’ Ingredients Chicken Stock
- ½ Essential Lemon, juice of 1⁄2, the rest in wedges
- 60g pitted Kalamata olives
- 200g Waitrose Tenderstem Broccoli Spears, trimmed and thicker stems halved lengthways
Method
Preheat the oven to 200oC, gas mark 6. Heat the oil in a shallow, flameproof casserole dish or ovenproof sauté pan over a medium-high heat. Season the chicken and fry skin-side down for 5 minutes until golden, then cook on the flesh side for 2 minutes. Lift out of the pan and set aside.
Add the onion and garlic to the pan with a pinch of salt and fry for 5-6 minutes, until soft and starting to caramelise. Stir in the spelt, then add the stock and lemon juice. Bring to a simmer, then sit the chicken thighs on top of the spelt, skin-side up. Transfer the pan to the oven for 25 minutes.
Take the pan out of the oven and lift the chicken onto a plate. Stir the spelt, then stir in the olives and broccoli until coated in the juices. Sit the chicken back on top of everything and roast for a final 15 minutes, until fully cooked, there is no pink meat and the juices run clear. Stand for 5 minutes before serving with the lemon wedges.
Cook’s tip
Try swapping the olives for equally flavoursome sun-dried tomatoes.
And to drink...
Partner this dish with Louis Latour White Burgundy, France (75cl) – a classic, well-balanced wine with fresh, ripe citrus-fruit flavours.
Nutritional
Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe
Energy | 3,427kJ/ 821kcals |
|---|---|
Fat | 47g |
Saturated Fat | 11g |
Carbohydrates | 44g |
Sugars | 7.6g |
Fibre | 8.4g |
Protein | 50g |
Salt | 2.2g |