Name: Air-fryer chicken with roasted tomato sauce
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 1 min
Total time: 21 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Main Meals
Ingredients: free-range skinless chicken drumsticks and thighs 1kg,olive oil 4T,chicken masala 2–3 heapedT,lemon juice 1T,sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste ,Woolworths roasting vegetables 800g,For the sauce: ,Woolworths Roma tomatoes, halved 800g,garlic bulb, top trimmed 1,whole green chilli, halved lengthway 1,olive oil 3–4T,sea salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste ,dried oregano, to taste ,fresh basil, chopped

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Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cooking Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

1 whole free-range chicken
200 g Woolworths preserved lemons
Salt and pepper, to taste
60 ml extra-virgin olive oil
150 g rosmarino, cooked

For the green bean pesto

300 g green beans, chopped
20 g Italian parsley
⅓ cup extra virgin olive oil
50 g Woolworths hard cheese, grated
80 g macadamia nuts, roughly chopped
salt and pepper, to taste

Method

1. Preheat the oven to 200C.

2. Put the preserved lemons in the food processor and blitz until smooth. Rub the chicken liberally with the preserved lemon paste, season with salt and black pepper and drizzle with the olive oil.

3. Place on a baking sheet and roast for 40 minutes, turning halfway through and basting with the pan juices until golden brown with a crisp, slightly sticky skin.

4. To make the green bean pesto, blanch the green beans for 3 minutes and place in icy water to stop cooking.

5. Place the beans along with all the remaining ingredients in the food processor, setting aside 100g of the cooked green beans, and blitz until smooth, whilst maintaining its chunky texture. Stir through the cooked rosmarino.

6. To serve, dish up the orzo on a serving platter and top with the chicken. Drizzle on the remaining cooking juices and serve right away.

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Photograph: Jan Ras
Videography: Barry de Villiers
Food assistant: Thandiwe Mamacos

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