Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chicken thighs with orzo pasta. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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First you brown the chicken, then brown the orzo in the rendered fat, and then add some onions and garlic. Add the chicken back to the pasta, pour in some stock and crushed tomatoes, cover and cook until the pasta has absorbed the liquid. You can do most of the prep while the chicken is browning.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chicken thighs with orzo pasta using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Chicken Thighs with Orzo Pasta:
- Take 1 tsp Olive Oil
- Make ready 1 Medium - Large Chopped Onion
- Get 5 Chicken Thighs
- Prepare 2 cloves Garlic
- Prepare 1 tbsp Tomato Puree
- Get 1/2 pint Chicken Stock
- Take 1/2 Juice of Lemon
- Prepare 1/2 Red Pepper
- Make ready 400 gm tin Chopped Tomatoes
- Take 100 gs Orzo
- Take Salt
- Prepare Oregano
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Steps to make Chicken Thighs with Orzo Pasta:
- Heat oil in large frying pan, that has a lid. Add chopped onion and fry gently til soft.
- Score each piece and place in pan, skin side down. Keep moving the onions and turn thighs to colour all over, about 5-10 mins
- Grate garlic into onions, sprinkle thighs with oregano. Continue turning thighs. Add Tomato Puree and Red Pepper. Mix Puree into onions. Squeeze lemon juice in and stir.
- Add tin Tomatoes and salt to taste and bring to boil. You can add Worcestershire Sauce now and leave out the pasta and stock. Finish as 6 below.
- Add Chicken Stock and stir into Tomatoes. Add Orzo and stir through. Bring back to boil then turn down to lowest heat to get a simmer.
- Cover and simmer for about 30mins. Stir at 15mins to stop Orzo sticking to pan. After 30mins remove lid, add Worcestershire Sauce. Continue simmering for a further 10-15 mins while sauce thickens.
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