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Chicken and Bacon Casserole

 Serves 4-8

This is simple comfort food, just how it should be. If you like your casserole enough, serve the chicken straight from this in the centre of the table

Ingredients

Method

  1. Put the bacon into a small saucepan of cold water and bring up to the boil to remove excess salt. 
  2. Drain, and dry the bacon on kitchen paper.  Heat up a frying pan, add 2 tbsp olive oil, sauté the bacon until nice and golden and crispy, remove to a casserole, add the chicken to the pan, adding more oil if necessary, saute the chicken for a few minutes until golden, then remove to the casserole and sauté the carrots, onions and garlic for a minute, seasoning with salt and pepper, adding them to the other sauted ingredients in the casserole.
  3. Deglaze the frying pan by adding the stock to the frying pan over a high heat and dissolving all the juices on the bottom. 
  4. Then pour the stock into the casserole, add a sprig of thyme or rosemary or sage and put into an oven at 160c for about 45 min or until cooked. 
  5. Strain the juices, if you like (if you have not added flour at the start) and spoon any fat off the top, add back in to the stew. 
  6. Sprinkle with some chopped parsley if you like. 
  7. Serve with mashed potatoes.