Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, olive oil confit of chicken. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Olive oil confit of chicken is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Olive oil confit of chicken is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

Pour enough extra virgin olive oil over the chicken to cover the meat. The oil is the cooking medium so make sure the meat is well covered. Turn the heat on your stovetop to medium and cook until the oil starts to bubble. Olive oil confit of chicken recipe If you want to try a new way to cook chicken, this Spanish olive oil confit chicken recipe is the one for you!

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have olive oil confit of chicken using 10 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Olive oil confit of chicken:

1. Get 8 chicken legs (or 1 whole chicken cut in pieces)
2. Prepare 2 bay leaf leaves
3. Make ready 1 rosemary twig
4. Prepare 12 garlic cloves
5. Make ready 2 carrots
6. Get 1/2 orange peel
7. Make ready 4 cups of extra virgin olive oil from Spain
8. Prepare Salt
9. Make ready Ground pepper
10. Get Black peppercorns

This will depend on which chicken pieces you selected, as the whole legs will take longer. After sitting overnight rubbed with a few scoops of ras el hanout (a North African spice blend you can mix yourself or purchase pre-made), plus salt and fresh thyme, Kord's chicken thighs nestle. Confit is mostly done with duck meat, but with chicken the results are equally amazing. Good quality ingredients are key for this dish to come out great.

Steps to make Olive oil confit of chicken:

1. Cut the chicken into legs, breast, wings, leaving bones in all pieces. Trim any excess of fat. If you choose to buy just chicken legs, skip this step.
2. Start the oven at 275º F and prepare a large baking dish.
3. While the oven is heating, add salt and pepper to the chicken. Then, cook it for a few minutes in a pan with some olive oil from Spain until the meat looks golden brown.
4. Put the chicken in the baking dish and add the Spanish EVOO until the chicken is completely submerged in it. You may need the full 4 cups, maybe a little more or maybe a little less.
5. Add the bay leaf, the rosemary, the peeled garlic cloves –whole-, the carrots, the orange peel and some black peppercorns. Mix everything in the baking dish.
6. Cook in the oven for about 3 hours.
7. Let it cool down for a bit, take the chicken out of the oil and serve.

Confit is mostly done with duck meat, but with chicken the results are equally amazing. Good quality ingredients are key for this dish to come out great. And since Spanish olive oil is the best -because it comes from the leading producer- and it has a delicious taste, using it in this olive oil confit chicken recipe will up your results. Lay the chicken on top, skin side down. Remove the chicken from the fat.

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