Chicken Castanets

Chicken Castanets is a Filipino recipe prepared with pan seared marinated chicken cooked with chorizo, carrots, mushrooms and tomatoes.

When you have a food blog, you follow other food blogs to get new ideas and basically try their recipes as well. These recipes sometimes are just OK but there are others that are amazing they become a regular meal in your dining table, take this recipe we have today as an example, the Chicken Castanets that I tried over at Salo Salo Recipes Blog by Lisa. A simple concoction of marinated chicken cooked with chorizo, carrots, mushrooms and tomatoes, this dish is a celebration of wonderful flavours, the chorizos give it a nice smoky peppery flavours, the mushrooms give it an earthy taste and the tomatoes makes it tangy and vibrant, it’s so good, we made it several times already.

After some research online where this recipe might have originated, but that led me to no conclusions at all, so I would guess it will be an heirloom / family recipe which Lisa had sort of mentioned in her blog. Thanks for sharing this one to the world, surely, I am not the only one who would love it. The recipe below are adapted to the original one and adjusted it to ingredients available to us.

Chicken Castanets

★★★★★ 5 from 4 reviews

• Author: Raymund
• Prep Time: 15 mins
• Cook Time: 40 mins
• Total Time: 55 mins
• Yield: 6 1x
• Category: Main Course
• Cuisine: Filipino

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Description

Chicken Castanets is a Filipino recipe prepared with pan seared marinated chicken cooked with chorizo, carrots, mushrooms and tomatoes.

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Ingredients

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• 8 pcs chicken thighs
• 200 g button mushrooms, sliced in half
• 15 pcs cherry tomatoes
• 1 Spanish chorizo, sliced (I used 3 mini ones)
• 1 1/2 cup chicken stock
• 1 carrot, chopped
• 1 tbsp soy sauce
• 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
• 1/2 tsp dried thyme
• 1 onion, sliced
• 6 cloves garlic, minced
• salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• olive oil

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Instructions

1. Marinate chicken pieces in soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce overnight
2. In a large pan add olive oil and place it in high heat. Add chicken and sear both sides until golden brown. Remove chicken from pan then set it aside.
3. Using the same pan add more olive oil then sauté garlic in low heat, once it starts to turn light brown add onions then continue to sauté until onions are soft.
4. Bring heat to medium, add chorizo then stir fry for a minute.
5. Add carrots and mushrooms, continue to cook for two minutes.
6. Pour the chicken stock scraping the pans bottom while mixing.
7. Place the chicken together with the dried thyme, bring to a boil, lower heat to simmer for 20 minutes. Cover the pan.
8. Bring heat back to high, add the tomatoes then continue to cook for 5 minutes and let the liquid reduce.
9. Season with salt and freshly ground black pepper then serve.

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