Slow-cooked Halloween Chicken - The Recipe

This delicious slow-cooked chicken dish is perfect for a Halloween or Bonfire Night party, just leave it simmering away and bring it out when your guests get hungry!

·         Serves: 4

·         Prep time: 20 mins

·         Cooking time: 2 hrs 30 mins

·         Total time: 2 hrs 50 mins

Ingredients

• 8 chicken thighs
• 2tsp freshly grated ginger
• 2 cloves of garlic chopped
• 45g flaked almonds
• 250g TOTAL Greek Yoghurt
• 120ml water
• 2 onions chopped
• 1 cinnamon stick
• 2tsp ground coriander seeds
• 4 cardamom pods
• 200g tin chickpeas in water, drained
• 1tsp turmeric
• 1tbsp chilli flakes
• 2tsp salt
• 50ml vegetable oil
• 1 tin green lentil

Method

1. Heat the oil in a casserole dish; seal the chicken until golden brown.
2. Remove the chicken from the dish, and cook the spices off, starting with the cinnamon stick, cardamom pods, then the turmeric and chilli.
3. Reduce the heat then add the onions, garlic and ginger, cook until the onions are soft.
4. Place the chicken back in the dish, pour over the TOTAL Greek Yoghurt and the water season to taste.
5. Bake in a slow oven 140c gas mark 3 for 2 hours with a lid or sealed with tin foil.
6. Add the lentils and chickpeas, stir then leaving the dish uncovered return to the oven and bake for a further 20 minutes.

Nutritional information

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.