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Slow-cooked Spanish chicken with chorizo recipe
Photo: Lily Banse

Slow-cooked Spanish chicken with chorizo recipe

14 ingredients 30 min + 2 hr 30 min 4 people openrecipes

Whenever I cook with paprika, garlic and saffron, I think of Spain and all its fabulous, fragrant dishes. Here, the slow-baking of the chicken produces melt-in-the-mouth meat that simply falls off the bone.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

652
Calories
39g
Protein
43g
Fat
32g
Carbs

Counts 12 of 14 ingredients — the other 2 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 12 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Sunflower 1 oz (28g) hulled 165
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Butter 1 tbsp (14g) 102
Sugar 1 tbsp (12.5g) granulated 49
Tomato 1 medium (123g) 22
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Clove 1 tsp ground (2g) 7
Black Pepper 1 tsp ground (2.3g) 6
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Salt 1 tsp (6g) 0
Spread not in our table 0
Saffron not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 1 dairy-free margarine (ideally Pure Sunflower Spread)
  • tbsp saffron threads
  • 1 soft light brown sugar
  • tsp smoked paprika
  • 1 boneless chicken breasts and 4 chicken thighs on the bone (skin left on)
  • tbsp boneless chicken breasts and 4 chicken thighs on the bone (skin left on)
  • 1 lemon juice
  • tbsp cloves of garlic
  • 4 cooking chorizo
  • 4 olive oil
  • 1 x 400g tin of chopped tomatoes
  • tbsp x 400g tin of butterbeans, drained and rinsed
  • 8 bunch of flat-leaf parsley
  • 300 sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

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By lovefood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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