Chicken With Morcilla and Peppers
- 3 chicken breast halves, with wings, skin and bones
- 6 chicken thighs with skin
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 teaspoon smoked paprika
- Salt
- freshly ground black pepper
- 4 cups cooked cannellini beans, starting with 1 1/2 cups dry beans, or 2 cans, rinsed
- 1 tablespoon sliced garlic
- 3 red bell peppers, cored, seeded, in half-inch-wide vertical strips
- 2 medium-size sweet onions, in eighths
- 12 ounces morcilla (Spanish blood sausage) or boudin noir, sliced 1 inch thick
- 1 cup dry red wine
- 2 stems fresh rosemary, leaves only
- Separate wings from breasts.
- Cut each breast in half.
- Dry all chicken pieces.
- Heat 1 tablespoon oil in a 12-inch skillet.
- Add chicken, skin side down, and cook over medium-high heat, just until skin is golden.
- Do not turn pieces; cook in stages if they do not all fit in pan at once.
- Place chicken in a bowl and rub with paprika, salt and pepper.
- Toss beans with garlic, season with salt and pepper, and spread in a large, shallow casserole that can hold chicken in a single layer.
- Place chicken, skin side up, on bed of beans.
- Heat oven to 400 degrees.
- Heat remaining oil in skillet, add peppers and onion chunks and saute until starting to brown.
- Scatter around chicken.
- Add sausage to skillet, saute, stirring, a couple of minutes until just starting to sizzle.
- Tuck sausage pieces into casserole.
- Pour wine in skillet, deglaze pan and pour over ingredients in casserole.
- Scatter rosemary on top.
- Place in oven and bake 45 minutes, basting chicken with juices once or twice.
- Serve.
chicken, chicken, extra virgin olive oil, paprika, salt, freshly ground black pepper, beans, garlic, red bell peppers, sweet onions, morcilla, red wine, rosemary
Taken from cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1012444 (may not work)