Winner, Winner Chicken Dinner

Crispy Chicken & Braised Leeks

OOOOOH snap. Impress your pals with proper posh nosh. We've just started switching up our weekly shopping from Asda to Tesco - no particular reason, we just fancied a change! The great thing about Tesco is that they have a little recipe hub where you can find the recipe you like an add all the ingredients to your shopping trolley - amazing. Tesco generally comes out a little bit more pricey than Asda but it's worth trying a few different supermarkets every now and again.

I tested on of their more complex dishes to switch up a Sunday from our usual roast dinner and it was well worth the change. It's not a half hour jobby and does require a little more time than your week day meal but it's definitely worth it. 

Ingredients:

8 x chicken thighs 

2 x diced onions

1 x heaped tsp of dijon mustard

100ml low fat creme fraiche 

400ml chicken stock

200g mushrooms

1. Cook the onions until softened and golden. Then transfer them onto a roasting tray. Repeat the action with the mushrooms.

2. Season up those thighs and stick them in a frying pan. Cook them skin down for 10 mins to get them all crispy then face up for another 5 to part cook the flesh .

3. Chuck the thighs and the chicken stock into the roasting tray and roast in the over for 25 mins at 200 degrees. 

4. Don't sit down for a cuppa... whilst the foods roasting, slice the leeks length ways and cook both sides until slightly golden. Cover the leeks with 150ml of water and leave to simmer.

5. Transfer the chicken to foil and set aside. To make the sauce; use the cooking juices, mushrooms and onions and pour into a saucepan with the creme fraiche and mustard and simmer until thickened. 

6. Plate up... leeks then chicken and finally sauce. Posh. Nosh.

Keeping you hungry,



Hannah x