Sluggish Cooker Spanish Hen {Gluten and Dairy Free}

If you’d like a daring, shiny dish full of Mediterranean flavours, this Sluggish Cooker Spanish Hen recipe is ideal. Tender rooster thighs are sluggish cooked with tomatoes, chorizo, olives, cannellini beans and garlic for a scrumptious meal. Excellent served up with rice or potatoes, and naturally gluten and dairy free.

This Spanish Hen Stew needs to be one in all my favorite ‘dump and go’ sluggish cooker recipes ever. It’s so easy and SO tasty.

This straightforward Mediterranean rooster stew contains a rice tomato sauce flavoured with crimson wine, garlic and smoked paprika.

The tender rooster thighs are sluggish cooked to perfection with chorizo, olives, cannellini beans and onion, for a flavour-packed summer season stew.

That is really my favorite sluggish cooker recipe to make when the climate begins to show autumnal. It’s correct consolation meals however tastes just like the reminiscences of summer season!

Pair this Crock Pot Spanish Hen Stew with gluten free flatbreads for dipping, loaded in a Air Fryer Baked Potato and even with some contemporary gluten free focaccia bread.

In case you love this recipe, you should definitely try all my different gluten free sluggish cooker recipes, together with my Sluggish Cooker Satay Hen and Harissa Hen Stew.

Elements

There’s a printable recipe card for this gluten free Spanish rooster under. However for the procuring checklist you will want…

• Hen Thigh Fillets: I have a tendency to make use of boneless skinless rooster thigh fillets for ease. However this could be equally scrumptious with cheaper, bone-in rooster thighs too. In case you’re utilizing skin-on thigh fillets, I like to recommend searing the pores and skin in a sizzling pan earlier than including to the sluggish cooker so it goes good and crispy.
• Inexperienced Olives: These add a scrumptious umami flavour to this Spanish stew and are such a scrumptious staple in Spanish cooking.
• Cannellini Beans: Including tinned beans is an effective way to make a recipe go additional, add extra fibre and extra protein. They’re low-cost and straightforward – you should utilize completely different beans like butter beans, should you choose.
• Tinned Tomatoes: Canned diced tomatoes kind the bottom of this sauce.
• Onion
• Vegetable Inventory Pot: I exploit a Knorr vegetable inventory pot for flavour, and all their inventory cubes and pots are gluten free. You should utilize any gluten free inventory dice or inventory pot you want – rooster or vegetable each work properly.
• Chorizo: All the time double examine there is no such thing as a gluten (or dairy should you want it to be dairy free) in your chorizo. Most manufacturers are tremendous.
• Garlic: Use frozen chopped garlic, contemporary minced garlic or a garlic paste.
• Pink Wine: If you wish to omit this you’ll be able to exchange it with an equal quantity of water (I exploit this to rinse out the tomato tin!)
• Tomato Puree: (Tomato paste) This helps add a richness to the tomato sauce.
• Smoked Paprika: For these daring, smoky Spanish flavours.

Tips on how to make sluggish cooker Spanish rooster

There’s a printable recipe card under with the strategy. However listed below are some step-by-step pictures to indicate you the way straightforward this sluggish cooker Spanish rooster is to make:

Finely chop the onion, cube the chorizo and drain the cannellini beans. If you wish to, you’ll be able to sear the rooster thighs (particularly if utilizing skin-on thighs) in a sizzling pan first.

You can even fry the chorizo off first, however once more this isn’t vital.

This recipe is designed to be a ‘dump and go’ crock pot recipe. You possibly can actually simply chuck the whole lot in and go away the sluggish cooker to work its magic.

Add the whole lot into the sluggish cooker and blend collectively properly. Make certain the rooster items are submerged within the sauce and fully coated.

Place the lid on and cook dinner on low for 5-6 hours, or on excessive for 3-4 hours. Stir properly after which serve with rice, potatoes and further inexperienced greens.

It additionally goes very well with some gluten free crusty bread for mopping up that sauce!

Storing and Freezing

This crockpot Spanish Hen is very easy to make for meal prep of batch cooking. You can also make up further to retailer for an additional meal – or freeze.

To Retailer: Let the stew cool fully, portion into tubs and preserve within the fridge for as much as 3 days. You possibly can eat this chilly or reheat totally earlier than consuming.

To Freeze: Portion the cooled Spanish rooster into tubs, label and freeze for as much as 6 months. You possibly can reheat these immediately from frozen.

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