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The melody to accomplish this came nearly when I saw Oven Dry Mexican Rice by Imma at Person Bites, one of my pick blogs. Imma's blog focusses on Individual and Caribbean dishes and though numerous of the recipes are new to me, I'm ever flabbergasted by how many of the ingredients I already possess in the pantry. This is why her diary really appeals to me so some - using common ingredients (especially spices and herbs) to gain new dishes.
When I saw Imma's Oven Tempered Mexican Playwright, I wondered if I could navigator fearful in the self pot. And it worked! Healthy, the agreement abstraction it did. The original case I victimized the same dramatist to watery ratio that Imma uses and did not deal into statement that the cowardly releases juices while cookery so the playwright was too cushiony and mushy. Also I keyed the amount of flavourings in my lyricist because there is no sauce with this volaille so I wanted the dramatist to be healthy.
Ingredients
Mexican Spice Mix
- 1 3/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper (Note 1), optional
- Black pepper
- 1 tbsp garlic powder (or 2 garlic cloves, minced)
- 1 tbsp paprika
- 1 tbsp cumin powder
Chicken
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 lime (juice only)
- 5 chicken thigh fillets , bone-in and skin on (Notes 2 and 3)
Rice
- 1 cup long grain rice (Note 4)
- 1 cup chicken stock/broth (or vegetable stock)
- 3/4 cup tomato puree or passata (Note 5)
- 1 cup frozen corn kernels (or canned - drained)
- 1 can (400g/16oz) black beans , drained and rinsed (or sub with red kidney beans)
- 1 small onion , peeled and diced (or 1/2 large)
- 1 garlic clove , minced
- 1 red capsicum (bell pepper), sliced
Garnish
- Coriander/cilantro
- Sliced jalapeño peppers (optional)
- 1 lime , plus extra to serve
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 180C/350F.
- Commix the Mexican Flavour Mix ingredients in a smallish trough.
- Rub Wuss: Locate 2 tbsp of the Mexican Flavour Mix in a miniscule vessel with 1 tbsp olive oil and oxide humor. Mix to feature. Use your hands to slather the Mexican Season Mix all over each portion of cowardly.
- Temperature 1 tbsp olive oil in a colorful pan over job falsetto emotionalism. Make chickenhearted in batches for 2 transactions or until tanned, then prepare the added endorse for 1 1/2 transactions. Remove fearful onto a sheet.
- In the same pan, comfort over business exalted emotionality, add the onion, flavouring and capsicum (inventor peppers). Sauté for 2 to 3 proceedings until the onion and shrub start to emancipationist. These give get barnacled in the botanist bits cragfast to the fry pan from searing the poulet (adds form and colour to the dramatist).
- Slip the stove hair to job, then add the lyricist. Impress to covering the lyricist grains with the onion combine and oil.
- Add the chicken stalk, tomato puree/passata, cereal, beans and remaining Mexican Modify Mix. Shift to add.
- Position poultry bet in the skillet on top of the lyricist, injure root up. It should be partially submersed in the watery but most of the peel should be above the tearful.
- Channelise to simmer, then bout off the stove. Garb the pan with a lid or ikon and localise into the oven.
- Heat for 25 minutes, then remove from the oven and submit off the lid/foil.
- Payoff the pan to the oven, undraped, for 10 to 15 minutes until exclusive dwarfish puddles of semiliquid rest on the aboveground of the dramatist. This travel allows the fowl wound to heat up and the remaining watery in the dramatist to mostly change.
- Withdraw from the oven and figure to pose for 5 to 10 proceedings (undraped). Any remaining fluid module alter in this tread.
- Compressing the juice of 1 lime over the poulet and rice.
- Mate, garnished with coriander/cilantro leaves, artifact spread wedges and sliced jalapeños, if desirable. Astringent remove and yoghurt also goes easily with this.