A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater: March’s Chicken Stew and Mash

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This will likely be my last post for a while.  Tom and I have just bought a fabulous new condo in the city, and will be moving on Friday. Between all the packing and the lack of food currently in our apartment, the blog has been (and will continue) suffering for a while.  I’m embarrassed to even tell  you what we ate for dinner tonight, but let’s just say it came from a box…

Consequently, you’ll have to excuse this picture. For one thing, it’s a stew – it’s supposed to look rustic and not picture-perfect, right? For another, I don’t really have adequate surface area at this point to be taking any sort of pictures without tripping over a box or stepping on some bubblewrap and scaring the bejesus out of myself.

Anyway, here is yet another Sunday chicken for  you. I flagged this recipe in The Kitchen Diaries because it looked so comforting. The ingredients are minimal and you probably have most of them on hand already. I only needed to buy leeks.  Nigel suggests serving this slow- (but now low) cooked chicken stew with mashed potatoes, and who am I to argue?

I did make a few changes to the recipe. I used canned beans instead of dried to make things easier on myself, so I in turn reduced the amount of liquid in the recipe (the original calls for 1/2 cup dried beans and 5 cups of water). Because I don’t see the point of a skin-on chicken unless that skin is nice and crispy, I decided to remove the chicken from the final product and re-crisp the skin in the broiler for a few minutes. As I was doing this, I pulled the bay and peel and skimmed the fat from the top of the stewing juices. Even though I drained some of the fat after pan-frying the chicken, a decent amount will still come about from the skin.

A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater: March’s Chicken Stew and Mash

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17 thoughts on “A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater: March’s Chicken Stew and Mash

  1. Good luck with the move Elly! And don’t be embarrased about eating out of a box…I’m sure we’ve all been there at one point! Love the stew…so comforting!

  2. Congratulations on the new condo! That sounds awesome. I can totally relate to the decline of eating quality prior to moving. Our last few days before coming to Thailand were pretty lame on the kitchen front!

  3. Congratulations on the new condo! That sounds awesome. I can totally relate to the decline of eating quality prior to moving. Our last few days before coming to Thailand were pretty lame on the kitchen front!

  4. Congratulations for the new condo! I bet you guys are super excited about it. We’ll be here waiting patiently so don’t worry about the blog. We understand (trust me) what moving to a new house means 🙂

  5. Chronia polla and Congratulations Elly for the new condo. I can imagine what you are going through but it’s always so exciting moving to a new place. My house is also a total mess as we are having it painted and can hardly move around.

  6. Chronia polla and Congratulations Elly for the new condo. I can imagine what you are going through but it’s always so exciting moving to a new place. My house is also a total mess as we are having it painted and can hardly move around.

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