Portuguese chicken with roasted garlic & pine nut spinach

Name: Portuguese chicken with roasted garlic & pine nut spinach
Prep time: 15 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Portuguese
Ingredients: 1 recipe quantity Roasted Garlic; 200 g/7 oz spinach leaves; 2 tbsp unsalted butter; 1 tbsp olive oil; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper; 1 red onion, quartered; 50 g/1¾ oz pine nuts; 1 tbsp smoked paprika; ½ red (bell) pepper, deseeded; grated zest and juice of ½ lemon; 1 tsp chopped thyme leaves; 1 tsp salt; 4 skinless chicken breasts; 3 garlic cloves; 1 red chilli with seeds

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy
Ready in
35 min

Appears in

The Good Chicken Cookbook

By Marcus Bean

Published 2024

About

We used to spend our holidays at my grandparents’ timeshare in Portugal, and everywhere you went they served the classic Portuguese piri piri chicken. So here’s a simple dish to remind you of sun-drenched holidays.

Ingredients

4 skinless chicken breasts
50 g/1¾ oz pine nuts

Europe
Portugal
Main course
Gluten-free

Method

Put all the marinade ingredients into a blender and blitz to a purée. Put the chicken breasts into a non-metallic bowl, cover with the marinade and rub it into the meat. Cover with cling film (plastic wrap) and marinate in the fridge for 1 hour.

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/Gas 4