2010 Cooking Club Week 6: Chicken & Chorizo Rice Bake

Have made this a few times now. First time was definitely nice but possibly a bit bland - the rice was barely coloured and hadn't soaked up a lot of flavour.

I've been ramping up the amount of chorizo (I make half or 2/3rds portions of the original recipe but would use a good 180-200g chorizo, halved and fairly finely sliced), additional paprika added (I add about a dessert spoonful when frying off the chorizo), and have started adding about a 1/2 tsp of dried chilli flakes in with the stock and wine which gives it a lovely background heat.

I also add a good handful of frozen peas just after adding the stock and wine which result in lovely sweet bombs of juicy flavour going off in your mouth when you eat it.

Well anyway each version gets better - the moral of the story is more spicy=good! My last version had lovely coloured and moist rice, chorizo very well cooked to the point of burnt but softened by soaking in the stock, and I'd kept the proportion of onion up too.

I tired this tonight for the first time - very tasty, thanks OP

Rather than breasts - €6 for 3, I used a pack of Dunnes (free range as always) oyster thighs. Only €2.99, and 50% extra free at the mo - so 8 pieces, enough to feed 4. I trimmed some of the excess skin/fat off before browning them. I love chicken thighs , the meat if moist & tastier imo than breast.

I also used brown rice, and despite a quick soak and parboil, it took 70 mins to cook!

One thing I did do which I thought worked well was I took off the lid for the last 15 mins and ramped up the heat from gas 4 to 7 which really crisped up the skin of the chicken.

Lots of rice left - going to have some tomorrow with a fried egg on top and a squirt of salsa brava I brought home from Spain.

Hi I have been lurking around the cooking club for a while now mostly for ideas, but not actually cooking an entire recipe.

Well just cooked this dish today and it is gorgeous, I think i left it in about 5 mins too long but the rice is a beauitful colour and full of flavour and the chicken is perfect with the chorizo. will definatly be cooking this again and trying some of the other recipes if they are all this good

I made this the other night for a few friends.
Not sure what happened tbh (likely, too much wine) but instead of using 30g of butter, I used 300g.
WTF I was thinking I don't know
The scary thing is I was using my phone so actually logged onto the laptop to double check the amount and in my retarded mind it still read 300g, which is almost a large block.
I wouldn't mind but one of my mates dosen't eat butter.
Anyhow, it tasted ok but was a tad greasy and we did go
through a fair amount of napkins.
I gave it to my brothers the next day and they loved it (although, they'd eat shit with sugar on it) and asked for the recipe.
Here's a bad quality pic.

I will attempt it again soon, sober!
Edit: Jesus, it looks so greasy in the pic - I best ask my mates to get their tickers checked.

Cooked this tonight for my parents, was lovely thanks for the recipe!

I made this last night, was nice. I definitely think it needs more veg though.

Second attempt with the correct amount of butter \o/
It was bloody marvellous!

It was and we didn't need the defibrillator to hand this time..
:pac:

Made this for dinner tonight! Added in mushrooms and pancetta bits. Was lovely, very tasty. Very filling though. Even the fussy 9 year old liked it, so that's super impressive!

Tried this tonight, was really nice but took ages to cook and the rice cooked really unevenly - some of it looked like rice pudding and other bits were still hard! I did it in a flattish pyrex dish though, might have something to do with it...other than funny rice textures it was great though, and made loads of it so I'll be eating it for the next few nights.:D I'll just have to keep making it to get the rice right I suppose. :pac:

Made it last night. I tried to adjust the recipe since I was only cooking for two. I ended up with the right amount of chicken, but too much rice & chorizo. It didn't go to wast though as the other half loved it and brought the leftover rice & chorizo to work for lunch .

A very good recipe OP, will definitively make it again. Apologies for the crappy camera.