Slimming World’s rustic garlic chicken tray bake is an easy one-pot dinner made with chicken thighs.
This rustic garlic chicken tray bake is one of our easiest Slimming World recipes - a whole meal cooked together, with chicken, potatoes and vegetables in one pot. Chicken thighs are a lovely tender cut, and very tasty. Plus they are much more affordable than chicken breasts, and this recipe serves 6 generously. The 12 large chicken thighs cook on a bed of sweet, roasted vegetables including vine tomatoes, courgette, and onions. Infused with garlic, rosemary, and dried red chilli flakes, each thigh is bursting with flavour. This recipe is cooked low and slow so you'll need about 2 hours to prepare it, but it's worth the wait.
Ingredients
- Low-calorie cooking spray
- 12 large skinless chicken thighs
- 600g Desirée potatoes, peeled and cut into 2.5mm thick slices
- 800g medium vine tomatoes, halved
- 2 courgettes, thickly sliced
- 3 large onions, peeled and thickly sliced
- 4 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped
- 4-5 small rosemary sprigs
- 4 tbsp finely chopped fresh parsley
- 1 tsp dried red chilli flakes
- Finely grated zest and juice of 1 lemon
- 250ml boiling chicken stock
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Method
- Preheat the oven to 180°C/Fan 160°C/Gas 4. Spray a large frying pan with low-calorie cooking spray and place over a high heat.
- Season the chicken thighs, add to the pan and cook for 2-3 minutes on each side. Remove with a slotted spoon and set aside.
- Spray the potatoes with low-calorie cooking spray and add to the pan in a single layer. Cook for around 5 minutes on each side until lightly browned. Remove from the heat.
- Spray a medium roasting tray with low-calorie cooking spray and layer the base with the tomatoes, courgettes, onions and potatoes.
- Place the chicken on top of the vegetables in a single layer and sprinkle over the garlic, herbs, chilli flakes and the lemon zest and juice.
- Pour the stock over the chicken and vegetables, cover with foil and bake in the oven for 1½ hours until the potatoes are soft and the chicken is tender, removing the foil for the last 10 minutes of cooking.
- Bring the tray to the table and let everyone help themselves.
Top tips for making Slimming World’s rustic garlic chicken tray bake
This recipe uses Desirée potatoes but you could always swap these for new potatoes instead, or Jersey Royals if they're in season.
For more information on the Slimming World plan, visit slimmingworld.co.uk
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