Nigella's famous recipe for an oven chicken bake with sausage and potatoes will become one of your favorite dishes! This "tray bake" - which literally just means baked in a shallow tray or pan, is a recipe your whole family will love.
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An oven chicken bake with sausage? By Nigella Lawson? All in. Or rather, an oven chicken bake by me, courtesy of Nigella the hottie English chef. You know, this gal. Sheโs all about teaching you how to utilize butter and chicken in a variety of ways. And I was the recipient of her new book,ย Nigellissima, so I grabbed the most delicious looking chicken recipe I could find and went about gluten-freeโing it. Lucky for me, it was almostย perfectly gluten-free as is. In addition to the โHow to rock your bod over the age of 50โณ thing, Nigellaโs Italian cookbook actually taught me another very valuable lesson: ย I donโt need to be afraid of Italian food anymore!
I opened it up, skipped past the pasta dishes (although I could easily g-free those as well) and found a variety of main courses that do not utilize one little bit of the devil gluten. Iโve dined in Italian restaurants that are also friendly โ or friendly enough โ to the celiac, and Iโm getting more and more at ease with re-embracing this ethnic food group. The only issue you may have with this gluten-free Italian tray bake is the sausage. Always look on the package, and probably pick it up from a health foods type store or Whole Foods where I was able to choose between three different gluten-free sausage options. I know! So. Much. Sausage.
Tips for success on this oven chicken bake: listen to Nigella.
One note on the recipe: Do not ignore Nigellaโs instructions to use a shallow pan. She told me more than once (via instructions in the book, weโre not besties โ yet) that the chicken will not brown as well if you use a deep pan, yet I did not listen. So my chicken could have been browner. Still, delicious! The Yukon gold potatoes are perfectly cooked, a little outside crunch and inside softness. The gluten-free Italian sausage added so much spice (maybe even too much), so maybe consider the mild, or sweet, Italian sausage option. But definitely consider making this all the time, as it is simple, delicious, and a crowd pleaser. Not as much of a crowd pleaser as Nigellaโs dรฉcolletage, but still.
Gluten-Free Italian Tray Bake adapted from Nigellissima
Nigella's Easy Italian Tray Bake: Oven Chicken Bake with Sausage
Ingredients
- 3 large Yukon gold potatoes cut into 1 inch chunks
- 8 chicken thighs bone in and skin on
- 8 Italian sausages make certain they are gluten free
- 6-7 sprigs rosemary
- Zest of one lemon
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- Ground pepper
- ยผ cup olive oil
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 425 degrees F
- Put the potatoes into a sheet pan or large, shallow roasting pan and add the chicken thighs and sausages.
- Arrange 4 sprigs of rosemary among the chicken and sausages, then finely chop the needles of another two sprigs to give you 2 teaspoons of finely chopped rosemary, and sprinkle those on as well.
- Zest the lemon over everything, and season with salt and pepper.
- Drizzle with olive oil and bake for 60 minutes, or until chicken skin and sausages are golden and potatoes pieces are cooked through. Let stand at least 5 minutes after cooking, and you can let it stand for up to 30 minutes before serving.
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