How To Cook One Pot Chicken With Orzo

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  • Difficulty easy
  • Serves 4
How To Cook One Pot Chicken With Orzo

Ingredients

  • 4 free range chicken legs skin scored
  • 300g orzo
  • 400g chicken stock
  • 400g passata (Mutti is my brand of choice)
  • 2 onions finely diced
  • 2 garlic cloves, finely sliced
  • 300g roasted red pepper cut into thin strips
  • 4 tbsp olive oil
  • 2 tsp. dried oregano
  • 2 tsp. Smoked paprika
  • Pinch saffron soaked in a little hot water
  • 1 unwaxed lemon zest & juice
  • Sea salt & cracked black pepper to taste
  • Feta cheese crumbled & Kalamata black olives to garnish
  • Small bunch parsley chopped

How To Cook One Pot Chicken With Orzo

  1. Preheat the oven to 200°C/180°C Fan/Gas 6.
  2. Season the chicken with paprika, oregano, salt & pepper & massage with olive oil.
  3. Roast the chicken in a casserole dish for 20 minutes skin side up then remove from the dish & keep warm.
  4. In the same dish, soften the onions & garlic for 5 minutes, add the saffron, passata & stock then bring to a simmer, add the orzo, red peppers, lemon peel & juice.
  5. Sit the chicken on the top skin side up & place back in the oven uncovered for 40 minutes, until the orzo has puffed up & the chicken fully cooked.
  6. Remove the tray from the oven & serve straight away.

To serve

Scatter over feta cheese, parsley & black olives & serve with freshly baked bread.

How To Cook One Pot Chicken With Orzo