# Crispy Chicken Thighs & Creamy Chorizo Leeks

This recipe makes crispy chicken thighs with creamy chorizo leeks and lemony herby rice.

- Cuisine: Spanish
- Category: Salad
- Language: en

## Ingredients

- chicken thighs skin on bone in
- salt
- leek
- chorizo sausage
- garlic
- purple onion
- rice
- thyme
- lemon
- butter
- crème fraîche
- pepper
- salad

## Instructions

1. Put skin on bone in chicken thighs on a plate, and heavily salt them.
2. Put the chicken thighs skin side down in a pan on a low heat.
3. Add pepper to the thighs.
4. Rinse the leeks, and slice them.
5. Slice the chorizo sausage.
6. Add the chorizo to a pot on low heat.
7. Dice garlic and purple onion.
8. Add the ruby red oil from the chorizo pan to the chicken.
9. Add the rest of the chorizo to the pan with the leeks, and add salt and pepper.
10. Soften the garlic and onion in butter.
11. Add rice, lemon and thyme to the pot.
12. When it starts to bubble, put a lid on it, and cook on low heat for 12 minutes.
13. Add crème fraîche to the chorizo leeks, with lemon snippits.
14. Flip the chicken thighs so the skins are as crisp as a walker's factory.
15. Baste the chicken with a chicken fat chorizo basting.
16. Add residual flavor to the leeks and remove any big bits from the rice.
17. Serve the rice, chorizo leeks, chicken thighs, with a bit of chickachorizo drizzle and salad.

## Equipment

- knife
- cutting board
- pan
- pot

## Source

- Original video: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DI1c53hoJt4/?igsh=czhhcnAxNnU1enp6
- Recipe page: https://www.cliprecipe.com/recipe/06db5427-b8dd-4b22-8097-93972297e4b5
- Extracted: 2025-06-03

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