Phil’s chicken and mushroom casserole… from the forest!
Phil’s live from the forest today with his midweek meal - a deliciously autumnal chicken and mushroom casserole. This one-pot, warming dish is a hearty bowl of nourishment and goodness.
Autumn chicken & mushroom casserole
Serves: 2
Ingredients:
4 tbsp any oil
300g chicken thighs, no skin or bone, each cut into 4 pieces
1 small butternut squash, peeled, seeded and chopped into 2cm pieces roughly cooked with some nice colour
250g brown cap mushrooms, sliced
2 small red onions, peeled and roughly chopped
2 cloves garlic, roughly chopped
250mls roughly light beer such as lager or water
2 x chicken stock cubes
2 tbsp mushroom paste (Barts’s) or brown miso paste
2 tsp sugar
Salt
Ground pepper
Crackers or crispy tortillas
Method:
1. Heat the oil and add the chicken thigh pieces, and brown well.
2. Next add the squash, mushrooms, onions and garlic and cook to get more colour and reduce the moisture from the mushrooms and squash.
3. Season really well and cook for 15 minutes, until they have a little colour.
4. Add the beer (or water) sprinkle over the stock cube, mushroom paste or miso and a little sugar and stir well.
5. Bring to a simmer and cook until the squash starts to fall apart on the outside edges, probably 10 minutes or so, by this time the chicken will be cooked too and slightly reduced.
6. Re-season well and serve warm with crackers or crispy tortillas.