Jamie Oliver’s festive traybake
Jamie Oliver is in the kitchen with the perfect recipes to get you ready for the festive season! He’ll be serving his chicken and bacon bread sauce traybake
Jamie Oliver’s Chicken in Baked Bread Sauce
From Jamie’s new book ‘Simply Jamie’
Serves 4
Ingredients
1 onion600ml whole milk2 teaspoons English mustard 4 small bay leaves2 large eggs½ a nutmeg2 cloves300g white bread4 large chicken thighs, skin on, bone in 2 rashers of smoked streaky bacon
Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C. Peel, halve and finely slice the onion, place in a 25cm x 30cm roasting tray with the milk, mustard, bay and eggs, finely grate in nutmeg and cloves, and add a pinch of sea salt and black pepper.
2. Slice the crusts off the bread and reserve, tear the middle of the bread into the tray, then really scrunch and mix it all together. Dunk the reserved crusts in the mixture and arrange around the edge of the tray.
3. Rub the chicken thighs with a little salt, pepper and olive oil, then nestle them into the tray, skin side up. Halve and add the bacon rashers, and roast for 50 minutes, or until golden. Serve with seasonal greens.
Veggie lovers:
Break 1 small cauliflower (400g) into chunky florets, leaving any nice leaves intact, toss in a little olive oil, salt and pepper, and use in place of the chicken and bacon. Grate in 80g of Cheddar cheese, then cover the tray with tin foil and roast as above, removing the foil halfway.