Garlicky chicken

This dish to so typical of Spanish tapas food.  Chicken with masses of garlic.  Nothing more needs to be said.

Preparation Time: 10 Mins

Cooking Time: 30 Mins

Total Time: 40 Mins

Ingredients

For 4 servings…

4                    Chicken thighs  - skin on and bones in     

                     Pepper  - freshly ground, black  

                     Salt          

25 ml              Olive oil     

4 cloves           Garlic  - crushed       

1 small sprig      Rosemary   

2 sprigs            Thyme      

                     Bay leaf     

50 ml              Sherry  - manzanilla  

Method

Season the chicken generously with salt and pepper.

Heat the olive oil in a heavy-based pan over a medium heat and add the chicken pieces.  Fry the chicken on all sides until light golden - this should take about 15 minutes.  Add the garlic and herbs and continue to cook until the chicken has taken on a dark brown colour - about 10 minutes.

Add the sherry and stir to deglaze the bottom of the pan.  Cook for another 5 minutes, until the sauce has reduced right down to almost nothing.

Taste and adjust the seasoning and serve.

Wine recommendations

Red or white wine or, better still, dry Sherry.

Conventional

     Fino Sherry

Interesting

     Côte Chalonnaise blanc

     Côtes du Luberon blanc

     Gaillac

     Rioja blanc or rouge

     Txakoli de Getaria