Gino D'Acampo's shares family favourite recipe for easy dinner crowd-pleaser

30 December 2023 , 16:16

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Gino D'Acampo's shares family favourite recipe for an crowd-pleasing dinner (Image: Gino D'Acampo/YouTube)

If you want a simple meal that will take little effort and lots of pay off then Gino D'Acampo's family favourite chicken in beer recipe is perfect for you.

The chef shared that this dish is his family's "favourite dish ever," and added that while chicken thighs aren't to everyone's taste, he is a fan. He said: "Not many people like to cook with chicken thighs but I do because they are nice and tender and they are very very tasty." The recipe is featured in Gino's cookbook 'Gino's Italian Family Adventure' which is also based on the ITV television series. In a snippet posted on the TV chef's YouTube channel, he demonstrates just how easy it is to make this tasty, protein-packed dish.

Ingredients

Onion

Rosemary

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Panchetta

Chicken thighs

Sardinian beer or larger [Or the equivalent]

Vegetable or chicken stock

(Gino D'Acampo/YouTube)

Method

The first thing you will need is to heat a casserole dish. Dicing up the pancetta the chef just throws it into the pan once it's hot and waits for the meat to release its oil. He explained that he "relies on the fat on the pancetta to come out," and only when this happens does he throw in his roughly diced onion and plucked rosemary.

He added a small splash of olive oil and then black pepper. He advised cooking the onion and pancetta for 7 to 8 minutes making sure that they become crispy, especially the onions. Then you need to get your chicken you put the skin side down into the pan first, he said: "We want to give loads of flavour to the skin." He suggested to leave the chicken for 5 to 6 minutes and make sure to colour the skin.

Gino pointed to the golden colour on the skin and claimed: "This is exactly what you want." Once you have this colour you can turn your chicken thighs around, you need to add your vegetable or chicken stock, but chimed: "Whatever you have got is absolutely fine."

Gino then advised to sprinkle the stock onto the chicken and make sure to scrape the pan because that is where all the flavour is. Then the chef takes two bottles of beer and pours it into the casserole dish and says to wait for everything to come to a boil. The beer in the dish should be reduced by half and then the chef throws in some more rosemary from his garden "to give it an extra kick."

To serve he suggested you should let things sit for five minutes then take the entire dish to the table and get a bit of bread to go "dunky dunky" and then the job is done and according to the chef, "you can't get better" than this recipe and many would agree. One fan commented: "That looks very delicious and an easy one to cook thank you Gino for sharing I'm sure my whole family will enjoy it."

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