Chicken Thighs

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Chopped garlic, salt, pepper, glug of any vinegar, scattering of sugar, cover and roast. Eat hot, cold or warm.


No proper name, has been called Gabriella's Chicken after a child who came from Mozambique invited the DDs to her birthday party about 13 years ago.

Happyscrimper

lindsaygalaxy wrote: »

Hello everyone

Yesterday while shopping I picked up some chicken thighs as they were cheaper than chicken breasts. I want to use them tomorrow eve, ideally I can cook it in the morning and reheat it ready for dinner.

Any suggestions please:) I've got most store cupboard essentials.

I know you have probably already used them for something, but the thing that my family loves and is super easy is put them in an oven safe dish, slather them in BBQ sauce, add a little more as they cook. So yummy and so easy!! As with any chicken, just make sure they are cooked through before serving.

Nikkisun

I have a pack of chicken thighs (not boneless) which were muchly reduced in Tesco.

I'm thinking of doing something with them in the slow cooker (maybe a curry) but need a recipe, preferably one where I can just chuck the thighs in without boning and chopping them!

Any ideas?

jkelly90

I would highly recommend this recipe that I made last night in the slow cooker with chicken thighs, you shred the chicken after it's cooked so no need to bother chopping or deboning beforehand.

The rest of the ingredients are pretty much store cupboard ones, if you don't have the chipotle paste maybe substitute it with chilli powder, dried chillis or something similar?

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/531628/mexican-chicken-stew

Edit: I added in some lime juice and zest after it was cooked which worked really well if you happen to have any to hand.

Nikkisun

That looks lovely - thanks.

wiggywoo9

Hi I need to use up a pack of chicken thighs, got basics in cupboard but not much else, what can I do with them??

There's 6 in the pack and two of us (me-mummy- and my 2 year old).

Thanks!

Firefly_Aught_Three

I did this the other day, very yummy and doesn't need many ingredients:

Serves 4 - 6

6 chicken thighs – skin on

Olive oil

2 onions, peeled and sliced

A few sprigs of thyme (rosemary, bay, whatever you have)

2 tbsp flour

2 tbsp tomato puree

750ml good hot stock (chicken or vegetable)

1 x 400g tin chopped tomatoes

1 x 400g tin white beans (cannelini, butter beans etc), drained. (I actually used Baked Beans)

Method
Place a large lidded casserole type pan on a medium heat. Drizzle about 1 tbsp olive oil into the pan. Add the chicken thighs skins side down and cook for about 5 minutes on a medium/high heat or until golden brown. Carefully remove the chicken from the pan and put on a plate to one side.

Add the onions and herbs to the pan and cook for a further 5 – 10 minutes on a medium heat until softened and lightly golden. Stir in the tomato puree and flour and cook for 2 minutes. Add the chicken, hot stock, chopped tomatoes and beans back into the pan and give it a good stir. Bring to the boil then turn down to a simmer. Place the lid on and cook for around 1 hour 30 minutes or until the sauce has thickened and the chicken tender, stirring occasionally.

Serve with mashed potato and steamed veg.(Instead of mash + veg, I put my veg and potatoes into the pot at the same time.)

Butterfly_Brain

I would roast them with red onion, garlic and any other veggies that you can get your hands on, make sure that any root veg including potatoes are cut into the same size pieces and parboiled. Drizzle oil (preferably olive but sunflower will do) all over and using your hands make sure that everything is coated well with the oil then pop into the oven.
A meal in one pan and very tasty

You could add a drizzle of honey or lemon juice for variety

HTH x

CCP

They're lovely just roasted, as a mini roast dinner or with salad.

If you've got some pesto in the cupboard this is quite nice, too - I would advise leaving out the bacon as I found it made the casserole quite oily without adding greatly to the flavour, and you could probably skip the wine as well as you're serving it to a little 'un.

maman

Firefly_Aught_Three wrote: »

I did this the other day, very yummy and doesn't need many ingredients:

My favourite recipe is very similar. I think thighs make the tastiest casseroles.

I use thyme and rosemary but no tomatoes or puree. I then add extra veg like leeks (frozen from Farmfoods), carrots, celery and mushrooms. I mix a bit of cornflour in a cup and add it with the white beans (butter beans are my favourite) about 20 mins before end of cooking. I start mine on the hob but cook it in the oven for about an hour on 200.

I have so many veg in there that we just have one thigh each if they're a decent size. You could make a huge pot and freeze it into 3 separate meals.