Piernas De Pollo - Spanish-Style Chicken Legs.
photo by Sara 76
- Ready In:
- 2hrs
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 16 chicken legs, skin removed
- 236.59 ml flour, for dredging
- 118.29 ml olive oil, for frying
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 14.79 ml garlic, chopped (or more to taste)
- 453.59 g canned whole peeled plum tomatoes (Roma)
- 236.59 ml chicken stock
- salt & freshly ground black pepper, to taste
directions
- Preheat oven to 300 degrees.
- Dredge chicken legs in the flour.
- In a frying pan over medium to medium-high heat warm oil and fry the chicken legs, turning as needed, until evenly browned. (A few minutes on each side, depending on your heat.). Make sure the chicken is well browned!
- Remove from pan.
- Pour off excess oil (but don't mop out all of the oil).
- Return pan to medium heat and saute the onion and garlic until the onion is transparent.
- Add tomatoes and cook for about 15 minutes.
- Remove this mixture from the heat and add to a blender or food processor.
- Add the chicken stock to the tomato mixture and puree until you get a sauce consistency.
- Season with salt and pepper.
- Arrange chicken legs in a baking dish and cover with tomato sauce.
- Cover with aluminum foil and bake for 1 hour.
- Remove foil, turn chicken in sauce, pour off excess liquid and bake until chicken is tender, about 30 minutes.
- Serve immediately.
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Reviews
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Another wonderful recipe! Our whole family loved this! I made it as written, but I reserved the sauce, and simmered it while the legs were baking for the last 30 minutes, and spooned a little on top when I served it. We had this on a bed of brown rice, with a green salad. These would also be great served cold...and picnic season is just around the corner for us! [Made for Aus/NZ recipe swap]
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