Paprika Chicken with Chickpeas

One pot effectively prepared chicken thighs with smoked paprika, onions, and chickpeas!

Do you ever cook with smoked paprika? It's one of my most loved flavors, helps me to remember grilled potato chips. It's incredible with chicken and furthermore, culminate with chickpeas.

So for this dish, I chose to wed the two—chicken and chickpeas, all covered with smoked paprika (and some pepper and oregano), and heat them on a bed of cut onions.

Culminate! Particularly for a simple midweek supper.

The chickpeas offer sufficient starch for the bird, so there’s no want for rice or potatoes. The dish does want a dash of inexperienced, that's ably performed by means of the addition of both chopped cilantro or parsley.

Paprika Chicken with Chickpeas

Feel unfastened to feature different spices when you have them reachable, like floor cumin, coriander, even a pinch of cinnamon.

INGREDIENTS

2 Tbsp smoked paprika.
1 1/2 of teaspoons salt.
3/4 teaspoon black pepper.
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder.
1/4 teaspoon floor oregano.
2 lbs chook thighs (we used bone-in, pores, and skin-on), trimmed of extra fats.
1 medium onion, thinly sliced.
1 14-ounce can chickpeas, tired.
2 Tbsp olive oil.
1 teaspoon lemon zest.
1 Tbsp lemon juice.
1/four cup chopped clean cilantro or parsley.

METHOD

1- Coat chicken with flavors: Stir together the smoked paprika, salt, garlic powder, pepper, and ground oregano in a huge bowl. Place the chicken thighs in the bowl and hurl to coat totally with the flavors.

You can do these several hours ahead, or right before cooking. Your choice. The longer the chicken sits on the rub, the more the flavors will permeate.

2- Preheat oven to 350°F.

3- Layer a casserole dish with sliced onions: Place the thinly sliced onions within the backside of a casserole dish big sufficient to preserve the hen portions with room in between.

Toss with approximately 1 teaspoon of the olive oil and unfold out in an excellent layer at the lowest of the dish.

4- Add chickpeas, lemon, oil to fowl: Add tired chickpeas, lemon zest, lemon juice, and last olive oil (2 Tbsp minus 1 teaspoon) to the bowl with the hen and spices.

Toss to coat the bird frivolously with the lemon and oil, and ensure that the chickpeas are covered with the spice aggregate as properly.

5- Orchestrate chicken and chickpeas over onion cuts: Arrange chicken pieces, skin-side up, over the cut onions in the goulash dish. Mastermind the chickpeas between the chicken pieces.

6- Prepare: Bake uncovered at 350°F for forty-forty five mins, or till the internal temperature of the hen thighs is no less than one hundred sixty-five °F and the apex is delicately cooked.

Sprinkle with cleaved new cilantro or parsley. Add more salt and pepper to taste.

Serve with a side salad.