Chicken with Nectarines and Red Onions

This is a glorious, bright, fruity, tangy and colourful dish, perfect for summer entertaining: delicious, unusual and sure to impress hungry and discerning guests, and yet knocked together in minutes, cooked in one casserole dish and quantities easily increased to serve en-mass. Voila: dinner party perfection for a time poor chef! This also works really well with veal or pork so make use of the summer nectarines and knock yourself out! Note that I have used something called "pomegranate molasses" -it is essentially a syrup of reduced pomegranate: it is commonly used in Lebanese cooking, and now in American cuisine too, but is quite tricky to get hold of here. I bought mine on Amazon and it is well worth investing in. Replace with Balsamic Vinegar otherwise.

Ingredients

Method

Ingredients

  • SERVES 2
  • 2 large (skin-on) Chicken Thighs
  • 2 Red onions (Sliced into Thick Rings)
  • 2 Nectarines or Peaches (cut into 8 wedges)
  • 1 handful Torn Fresh Basil Leaves
  • 2 tablespoon Olive Oil
  • Salt & Pepper
  • 2 tablespoon Pomegranate Molasses (or balsamic/ white balsamic)

Method

one. Preheat the oven to 180Âșc

two. Put the chicken pieces, together with the sliced onions into a casserole dish, drizzle with olive oil and season with a generous grind of salt and pepper. Cook for c. 25 minutes, depending on the size of your chicken pieces (-the peaches and pomegranate/ balsamic gets added with 15 minutes to go)

three. When your chicken has 15 minutes more to go, add the peaches and pomegranate molasses. Give everything a good stir, to coat, and cook for another 15 minutes.

four. Sprinkle with fresh basil to serve