Name: Isabella’s Chicken
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 500 ml (18 fl oz) water; 4 tomatoes, skinned if the skins are thick, roughly chopped; 4 sweet red peppers, deseeded and quartered; 4 artichoke hearts; 60 g (2½ oz) peas, frozen or freshly shelled; ground saffron (optional); salt and pepper; 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped; 4 tablespoons olive oil; 1.5 kg (3 lb 5 oz) chicken, cut into joints; 2 onions, chopped; 300 g (10½ oz) long-grain rice

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Potty!

By Clarissa Dickson Wright

Published 2010

About

This chicken dish is Spanish in origin and used to be cooked for us at home by our cook, Isabella, who was Andalucían and married to a retired bullfighter called Carlos. It’s an all-purpose dish, and very good.

Ingredients

4 tablespoons olive oil
1.5 kg (3 lb 5

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/gas mark 4. Heat the olive oil in an ovenproof casserole and sauté the chicken pieces. When they are brown, add the onions and garlic and cook for a little longer, until the onion starts to soften. Add the tomatoes, artichoke hearts, red peppers, peas an

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