Chicken with Mediterranean Vegetables

Chicken has suffered the same fate in Spain as elsewhere. Tasteless, intensively reared birds have tainted its good name and now a delicious bird, once just reserved for feast days, is often thought of as a cheap, bland option. However eat a pollo de corral, a farm-bred chicken, and it’s such a treat. I must urge you to buy fantastic, organic birds for all the recipes in this book.

Jointed chicken with the classic Catalan vegetable dish, Samfaina, is a very simple and