Mexican chilli chicken
By Sara Buenfeld
Cooking time
Cook: 50 mins - 1 hrSkill level
EasyServings
Serves 4A great spicy supper that can be made in advance
Nutrition and extra info
Additional info
- Freezable
Nutrition per serving
- kcalories
- 546
- protein
- 58g
- carbs
- 31g
- fat
- 22g
- saturates
- 7g
- fibre
- 8g
- sugar
- 0g
- salt
- 3.53g
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 1 large onion, halved and sliced
- 2 tsp each chilli powder and ground cumin
- 2 x 400g cans peeled plum tomatoes
- 1 chicken stock cube
- 200g piece chorizo, skinned and diced
- 8 chicken thighs, skinned
- 2 red peppers, seeded and cut into chunks
- 2 x 300g cans cannellini beans, drained
To serve
- 1 large avocado, stoned, peeled and sliced
- lime juice
- handful fresh coriander
- 4 large spoonfuls soured cream
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Method
- Heat the oil in a large pan and fry the onion until softened. Stir in the spices and cook for a few secs. Pour in the tomatoes and 2 cans of water, then crumble in the stock cube. Bring to the boil and add the chorizo and chicken thighs. Push the chicken under the liquid, cover and simmer for 20 mins.
- Stir the peppers into the pan, then cook for 20 mins more. Tip in the cannellini beans.
- To eat now: Warm through to heat the beans. Toss the avocado with the lime and some salt and serve on top of the casserole with a sprinkling of coriander. Top each portion with soured cream. Serve with rice, jacket potatoes or a handful of spicy tortilla chips.
- To eat later: Cool and keep in the fridge for up to 48 hours. Warm on top of the stove until bubbling and serve as above.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, April 2005
Comments, questions and tips
Comments
Really tasty, although I made a few changes - I cooked the chorizo at the beginning and used the oil from that to cook the onions, used whole cumin seeds and smoked paprika rather than ground cumin and chilli powder, and used kidney beans instead of canellini beans. OK, it wasn't really this recipe at all after all that, but it was still very good! I found I did need to add the water, and some more later on as it was boiling dry - I guess it depends on the type of pan you have.
This was a lovely dish for my Mexican themed evening last night - all my guests were really impressed and thought I'd slaved over a hot stove for ages - I'd actually made it well in advance and just re-heated it when needed (think that might also have helped the flavour, which was lovely). I used chicken breasts instead of thighs and used less water than the recipe (as suggested by other commenters on here) - that was a good tip. I used half the amount and it was still a bit on the runny side. But soooo tasty. Will definitely be making this again.
Nice recipe, smooth and spicy, and a change from the usual chilli. Best if the chorizo is fried off with the onions and garlic (which I add) first to release the oils, and I use tinned chopped tomatoes, about half a can of water and red kidney beans instead of cannellini. I serve it with baked potatoes and the limey avocado and sour cream go really well. This is a regular!
