Skillet chicken with burst tomatoes & white beans
One pan, forty minutes, and a sauce that makes itself. Where it goes wrong: crowding the pan.
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Skillet chicken with burst tomatoes & white beans
One pan, forty minutes, and the sauce makes itself while you find the good bread. The recipe that converts 'I can't cook' people.
Prep
10 min
Cook
30 min
Serves
4
Difficulty
Easy
Method
- 01Brown the thighs skin-down in a cold pan brought to medium — 12 unbothered minutes.
- 02Flip, tuck in garlic and tomatoes, season boldly.
- 03Into a 200°C oven for 15 minutes until the tomatoes burst.
- 04Stir the beans into the pan juices, squeeze the lemon over.
- 05Rest five minutes. Basil. Bread. Done.
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