Chicken Baked with Lentils
From chef2 14 years ago
- 60 minutes to make
- Serves 4
peasant food, I think its beauty is special precisely because you have to look twice to see it. Once you do, it's hard to avoid. The gravel-like lentils, shining like little planets in the sky of the plate. The golden tones of the chicken, skin puckered and delicate as a lace shawl. Read more The chunks of bacon, rosy-hued and glowing with flavor. See less
Ingredients
- chicken Baked with lentils shopping list
- Serves 4 to 6 shopping list
- 1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil shopping list
- 1/4 pound pancetta or bacon, in one slice, diced shopping list
- 3 pounds chicken thighs, 6 to 8 pieces, patted dry shopping list
- salt and freshly ground black pepper shopping list
- 2 cups finely chopped onions shopping list
- 1/2 cup finely chopped celery, about 1 rib shopping list
- 4 cloves garlic, sliced shopping list
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin shopping list
- 2 cups finely chopped radicchio, about 1/2 head, cored shopping list
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar shopping list
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh sage shopping list
- 2 cups lentils shopping list
- 3 cups chicken stock, more if needed shopping list
How to make it
- 1. Heat oil in a 4-quart ovenproof casserole. Add pancetta and cook on medium until golden. Remove. Season chicken with salt and pepper and add, skin side down. Sear until golden on medium-high heat, working in two shifts if necessary. Remove from pan. Heat oven to 300 degrees. Pour off all but 2 tablespoons fat from pan.
- 2. Add onions, celery and garlic, cook on medium until soft and translucent. Stir in cumin. Add radicchio, vinegar and sage; sauté briefly. Add lentils, stock and cooked pancetta.
- 3. Return chicken to pan, bring to a simmer, cover and place in oven. Cook about an hour, until lentils are tender and most of the liquid has been absorbed, but not all. Lentils should be saucelike but not soupy. Add a little stock if needed. Check seasoning, adding more salt and pepper if needed, then serve.
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