Chicken and Chorizo Romesco with Spanish Potatoes and Kale

By AprilAbrantes

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil, divided
• 5 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
• 2 pounds baby Yukon gold potatoes, halved
• Salt and freshly ground black pepper
• 1 bunch kale, stemmed and coarsely chopped
• 1 cup chicken stock
• 1 cup shredded manchego
• 1 to 3 slices stale bread, toasted, cut 1/2-inch dice
• 1 cup pequillo peppers or roasted red peppers
• 1 (15-ounce) can fire roasted tomatoes, drained, about 1 1/3 cups
• 2 tablespoons sherry vinegar
• 1/2 cup marcona almonds (Spanish toasted almonds), substitute toasted sliced or peeled almonds if unavailable
• 4 pieces boneless skinless chicken breast or thigh meat
• 2 teaspoons orange zest or lemon zest
• 1 teaspoon smoked or sweet paprika
• A handful flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
• 3/4 pound Spanish chorizo, casings removed, cut into 8 pieces on the bias

Details

Servings 4
Preparation time 20mins
Cooking time 50mins
Adapted from foodnetwork.com

Preparation

Step 1

Heat about 1/4 to 1/3 cup olive oil in a medium skillet over medium-low heat. Add the garlic and slowly cook until crisp and golden brown.

Place potatoes in a pot and cover with water, bring to a boil, season with salt and cook 15 minutes or until tender, drain and return to hot pot. While the potatoes cook, simmer kale in salted water 10 minutes then drain. When you are ready to serve, mash potatoes with stock and cheese, fold in kale, adjust salt and pepper.

While potatoes come to a boil, move forward with the meal. Add to a food processor: toasted garlic (reserve the oil), some of the toasted bread in pieces, the peppers, tomatoes, sherry vinegar, almonds, and salt and pepper. Turn processor on and stream in reserved "garlic-oil" and add the rest of the toasted bread in pieces until you get a pesto-like consistency. Transfer sauce back to the skillet and keep warm over low heat.

Cut each piece of chicken into 3 chunks and season with citrus zest, smoked sweet paprika, salt, pepper and parsley. Set aside.

Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil in a nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add chorizo and render it 1 minute. Remove the chorizo to a plate and then add chicken and cook 10 to 12 minutes, turning occasionally.

Pour a pool of sauce onto each dinner plate and top with a mound of potatoes and kale and chunks of chicken and chorizo. OLE!