Name: Portuguese chicken with rice
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Portugal
Ingredients: 400 g long grain rice; 100 g smoked bacon, chopped; 1.5 kg chicken, jointed into 6 pieces, or use thighs and drumsticks; 3 tablespoons olive oil; juice of 1 lemon; salt and freshly ground black pepper; 4 cloves; 2 medium onions, chopped; about 600 ml chicken stock or water; 2 bay leaves; chopped parsley, to garnish; 4 cloves garlic, chopped

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

Winter Food

By Jill Norman

Published 2005

About

This is a very popular Portuguese dish, and one which has many interpretations. Mine is a fairly plain version, because I like the flavours of the rice and chicken together without other intrusions, but, if you wish, you can add red or green peppers, cut into squares, mushrooms, chouriço (Portuguese spicy sausage) or flavour the rice with saffron.