Crispy and Sticky Chicken Thighs with Squashed New Potatoes and Tomatoes
- 1 3/4 pounds new potatoes, scrubbed
- 12 boned chicken thighs, skin on, preferably free-range or organic
- Olive oil
- Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 1/4 pounds cherry tomatoes, different shapes and colors if you can find them
- 1 bunch fresh oregano, leaves picked
- Extra-virgin olive oil
- Red wine vinegar
- This is a simple pan-baked chicken dish - the sort of food I absolutely love to eat.
- As everything cooks together in 1 dish, all the beautiful flavors get mixed up.
- This is what it's all about!
- With a green salad, it's an easy dinner.
- Put the potatoes into a large saucepan of salted boiling water and boil until cooked.
- While the potatoes are cooking, preheat your oven to 400 degrees F. Cut each chicken thigh into 3 strips and place in a bowl.
- Rub the meat all over with olive oil and sprinkle with salt and pepper, then toss.
- Heat a large frying pan, big enough to hold all the chicken pieces snugly in 1 layer, and put the chicken into the pan, skin side down.
- If you don't have a pan that's big enough, feel free to cook the chicken in 2 batches.
- Toss and fry over a high heat for 10 minutes or so, until almost cooked, then remove with a slotted spoon to an ovenproof pan or dish.
- Prick the tomatoes with a sharp knife.
- Place them in a bowl, cover with boiling water and leave for a minute or so.
- Drain and, when cool enough to handle, pinch off their skins.
- You don't have to, but by doing this they will become lovely and sweet when cooked, and their intense flavor will infuse the potatoes.
- By now the potatoes will be cooked.
- Drain them in a colander and lightly crush them by pushing down on them with your thumb.
- Bash up most of the oregano leaves with a pinch of salt in a pestle and mortar, or a Flavor Shaker if you have one.
- Add 4 tablespoons of extra-virgin olive oil, a good splash of red wine vinegar and some pepper and give everything another bash.
- Add to the chicken with the potatoes, the tomatoes and the rest of the oregano leaves.
- Toss everything together carefully.
- Spread out in a single layer in an appropriately sized roasting pan, and bake for 40 minutes in the preheated oven until golden.
- Lovely served with an arugula salad dressed with some lemon juice and extra-virgin olive oil, and a nice glass of white wine.
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new potatoes, chicken, olive oil, salt, cherry tomatoes, fresh oregano, extravirgin olive oil, red wine vinegar
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