Chicken Tray Bake

Serves 4

Ok I'm writing this recipe from memory as I don't have it written down anywhere but believe me it is the simplest and most tastiest dish ever and because you use chicken thighs it's also cheap to make, I've made it for loads of different people and everyone who's tried it has asked for the recipe so here it is, I usually serve it with ciabatta bread straight out of the oven and a big salad:-

Ingredients

1 pack skinless, boneless chicken thighs, cut into bite size chunks
packet of new potatoes
red onion, sliced
fresh rosemary
olive oil
3 x garlic cloves, peeled
cherry tomatoes
salt and pepper

Method

Put the new potatoes on to boil, if there are some small ones and some big ones, halve the big ones.  Boil them until they are soft enough to crush between thumb and finger.

In a frying pan add some olive oil and fry off the chicken chunks until they are slightly brown and crispy, around 8 - 10 mins.

Arrange the red onion and the whole cherry tomatoes in the bottom of a large oven dish.  Add the cooked new potatoes and just lightly crush the potatoes with a potato masher, it doesn't matter if you crush the tomatoes as well as it all mushes up in the oven.

Next add all the chicken thigh chunks and all the juices from the pan.  Season well.

Take the rosemary off the stalks, peel the garlic cloves and put these and a load of olive oil in a blender or use a hand blender, mix until it's a runny paste.  Pour this all over the ingredients in the oven tray and put in the oven at 200 degrees for about 35 - 40 minutes.  Make sure you stir it a few times, every 10 minutes or so. .

It honestly tastes divine and it's so easy to do.  You could add mushrooms or carrots or whatever you like.  I always use the Lakeland Herb Sea Salt that I mentioned in an earlier blog.