Chicken with chorizo, butter beans and new potatoes

By Stephen Jeffers from “Belfast cookery school”

Ingredients

• 4 skinless chicken breasts
• 100g chorizo sausage (sliced)
• 200g butter beans (can)(drained, from a can in water)
• 12 small new potatoes
• 36 Brussels sprouts (approx 400g)
• 2 shallots
• 150ml chicken stock
• 150ml double cream
• Basil

Special Equipment

• Large frying pan
• 2x small cooking pan

Preparation

• Step 1 – Potatoes
• Leave skins on new potatoes
• Put potatoes to boil
• Cook until soft inside (approx 10 minutes)
• Cut them in halves
• Put them aside

• Step 2 – Stock
• Prepare the chicken stock

• Step 3 – Sprouts & Chorizo
• Prepare the Brussels sprouts
• Slice the chorizo into medium slices

• Step 4 – Shallots
• Peel the shallots
• Cut length wise and then slice and dice

Cooking

• Step 1 – Chicken
• Put oil in bottom of frying pan
• Fry the chicken breast on both sides until golden brown on the outside, cooking sufficiently long on medium heat to make sure it is cooked through,
• Remove from pan and put on a plate covered with aluminium foil to keep warm

• Step 2 – Brussels sprouts
• Put Brussels sprouts to boil in small pan
• Cook for approx 8 minutes

• K’s tip
• If the breasts are too thick, slice them in two to make them easier to cook
• Do not use the same cutting board after having cut raw chicken meat

• Step 3 – Chorizo
• Put oil, shallots and chorizo in a small cooking pan
• cook until chorizo changes colour and onions are brown

• Step 4 – Sauce
• Remove chorizo and shallots from the pan and set aside in bowl
• Add chicken stock and double cream
• Reduce on slow boil

• Step 5 – Cooking
• Put potatoes and beans in the large frying pan
• Add the chorizo and shallots
• Add the stock/cream reduction
• Cook on slow boil until sauce becomes slightly sticky (approx. 10 minutes)
• Add the chicken to the pan to warm it up
• Add basil and season to taste
• Cook for a further few minutes

Presentation

• Use heated plates
• Serve the chicken with the beans, chorizo and Brussels spouts displayed around it