Showing posts with label chicken thigh. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chicken thigh. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Chicken, Red Capsicum, Tomato and Chickpea Chilli

I'm thinking I will make this, this week.  I had it on the list to make last week, but last week was crazy busy, I worked 4 days, on top of my two afternoons, and on my day off I went to the Eisteddfod.  And it wasn't even a day off, because I had to leave and go to my afternoon job.  So I didn't get around to making this one.  Maybe today, if I go and get the chicken out of the freezer when I'm done here.

Ingredients:

1 kg chicken thigh fillets, cut into 3 cm pieces
1/3 cup seasoned flour
1/4 cup olive oil
1 large red onion - I will be using brown, because I don't have a red one.
2 garlic cloves finely chopped
2 red capsicums seed removed, sliced into 1 cm pieces
1 tbsp tomato paste
1 can chick peas (400g)
1 can tomatoes (chopped, 400g)
3 long red chillis (or dried chilli, about a tsp)
1 tsp tabasco sauce.  If I have it, it goes in, otherwise perhaps a pinch more chilli
1 cup coriander leaves
Cous cous to serve

Dust chicken in flour
Heat 2 tbps oil in fry pan, fry chicken until golden, about 4 minutes, then set aside
Cook onion, garlic and capsicum in remaining oil until onion starts to colour (about 2 minutes).  Add chickpeas, tomato, chili and tabasco and season to taste.

Add chicken, cover with a lid and simmer over low heat for 30 minutes or until chicken is tender and sauce slightly thickened.

Serve with warm buttery cous cous.  Or I might do rice or even polenta if I haven't got cous cous.  Garnish with coriander.