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Slow cooked lemon chicken thighs with balsamic onions and sweet potato mash in a grey blue bowl on a wooden chopping board

Slow Cooked Lemon Chicken with Balsamic Onion and Sweet Potato Mash

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This is one of the best recipes from a perspective of how much time it take, Vs how nourished you’ll be.  The chicken is fall off the bone tender and will be ready when you come home from work.  Then you’ll take 15 minutes to whip up some sweet potato mash and you’re good to go.

  • Total Time: 4 hours 15 minutes
  • Yield: 2 people 1x

Ingredients

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For the chicken

  • 4 bone-in skin-on chicken thighs
  • 1 lemon
  • 1/4 tsp black pepper
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tbsp tallow
  • 1 brown onion
  • 2 tsp balsamic vinegar

For the mash

  • 350g sweet potato, peeled and cut into chunks
  • 50g butter
  • 2 tsp salt

Instructions

  1. Get the chicken thighs in a medium bowl and juice over the lemon.  Add the salt and pepper.

    Skin-on chicken thighs with lemon, pepper and salt in a silver bowl

  2. Bring a pan to a medium high heat and add the tallow.  You can also use olive oil and a knob of butter.
  3. Place the chicken thighs in the pan, skin side down.

    Searing skin-on chicken thighs in a cast iron pan

  4. Sear for a few minutes until they have some good colour, then transfer to the slow cooker.

    Seared skin-on chicken thighs in a slow cooker before cooking

  5. Turn down the heat of your pan a little.  Dice your onion and cook for a few minutes in the pan.

    Diced onions cooking in tallow in a cast iron pan.

  6. Add the balsamic vinegar to deglaze the pan.
  7. Spoon the onions over the chicken in the slow cooker.

    Seared skin-on chicken thighs with onion in a slow cooker before cooking

  8. Set to cook for 4 hours on low.
  9. When you’re ready to eat, boil a pot of water and add the sweet potato.  Cook for 10 minutes or until soft enough to mash.
  10. Add the butter and salt (and a little pepper if you like) and mash.

    Boiled sweet potato with salt, pepper and butter in a pot before being mashed

  11. Serve two thighs each with half the sweet potato mash each.  Make sure you get the juices and all of the onions from the slow cooker.

Notes

  • I use tallow to brown the meat since it will give a wonderful colour and flavour, but you can use any other animal fat, or a little olive oil and butter.
  • Author: Russell James
  • Prep Time: 15 minutes
  • Cook Time: 4 hours
  • Category: Easy dinner
  • Method: Slow cooker

Nutrition

  • Serving Size: 1/2 the recipe
  • Calories: 987
  • Sugar: 12.3 g
  • Sodium: 4079.3 mg
  • Fat: 62.7 g
  • Carbohydrates: 46.1 g
  • Protein: 65 g
  • Cholesterol: 393 mg

Find it online: https://eatlikeanadult.com/slow-cooker-chicken-thigh-balsamic-onion-sweet-potato-mash/