Roasted Chicken with Pancetta and Herbed Lentils
If this dish were a place, it would be a rustic little cottage somewhere in the Provençal countryside. Lentils are often overlooked in favour of more conventional accompaniments, but when teamed up with pancetta and fresh herbs, they make the perfect bed for your crispy roasted chicken. If you happen to have a bottle of something Provençal in the wine rack then all the better. Bon appétit!
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Ingredients
4
Chicken Thigh
4
Thyme
1
Carrot
1
Onion
1
Celery Stick
(Contains Celery)
1
Green Beans
½
Flat Leaf Parsley
1
Green Lentils
1
British Smoked Bacon Lardons
1
Bay Leaf
Nutritional information
Utensils
Instructions
Pre-heat your oven to 220 degrees. Pat the chicken skin dry with some kitchen paper and rub a knob of butter or olive oil on each thigh. Rub in a good pinch of salt and pepper and sprinkle over half the leaves from your thyme. Cook them in your oven on the top shelf for 25 mins, until the skin is nice and crispy. Rest out of your oven afterwards. Tip: The chicken is fully cooked when it is no longer pink in the middle.
Peel and finely chop the carrot and onion. Finely chop the celery and remove the ends from the green beans (i.e. top and tail them). Finely chop the parsley and drain and rinse the lentils.
Add a splash of olive oil to a non-stick frying pan on medium-high heat. When your oil is hot, cook the pancetta until it is crispy around the edges. Remove your pancetta from the pan and keep it to the side for later.
Heat another dash of olive oil in the same pan you cooked your pancetta in and turn the heat to medium-low. Add your carrot, onion, celery, bay leaf and your remaining thyme leaves. After about 5 mins your veggies should be nice and soft. Now boil a pot of water with a pinch of salt for the green beans.
Add your pancetta and lentils to the pan with your veggies. Mix together and season with a couple of pinches of salt and pepper. Turn off the heat. Tip: Taste the mixture and add more seasoning if you need to.
Cook your green beans for 4 mins in the boiling water. Drain them and then immediately run them under cold water. Tip: This is to stop them cooking (i.e.‘refresh’ them).
Cook your green beans for 4 mins in the boiling water. Drain them and then immediately run them under cold water. Tip: This is to stop them cooking (i.e.‘refresh’ them).
