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Nonna Gina’s Italian chicken and potato bake

‘Diano’ – which literally means baking dish in my family’s town dialect, is how my Nonna Gina used to call this dish. It’s one of those humble, soul comforting dishes that I has forever been a part of my life. This Italian chicken and potato bake has massive importance within my family. Even though my Nonna passed away over 15 years ago, it’s still being cooked regularly by many family members including by my mother who was her daughter-in-law. More times than not, when my mum asks me what I would like for Sunday lunch, my first option is this beauty.

As with many Italian dishes, there is never only one method to cook a meal. Every region, town and family member has their own version with a tweak here, a tweak there. So, if you were to google Italian chicken and potato bake, you will be presented with many different recipes across many pages. However, this version is very dear to me as it’s my Nonna’s recipe. I never thought I would share it via the Tiny Italian as I didn’t believe anyone would be interested in such a humble and simple dish. I used to think, that maybe my readers wouldn’t find it exciting enough. How wrong was I? VERY.

During COVID-19 lockdown living, I decided to film a recipe video sharing the simplicity of its preparation and the response was so overwhelming. I never thought this nostalgic dish would be so popular amongst so many of you.

There are only a handful of steps to prepare and cook this recipe, making it incredibly simple for anyone to recreate it. A key tip is to ensure you use a baking dish that ensures all the ingredients are perfectly snug within and not too large. Secondly, it’s essential that the chicken is marinated and seasoned for at least 15 minutes (with the onion, garlic, pepper and thyme) before it’s placed in the baking dish with the other ingredients, to maximise flavour. Thirdly, the potatoes must be sliced as thin as possible to ensure that they cook through alongside the chicken, otherwise, you may find yourself with raw potato which won’t be pleasant to eat. When it comes to the stock, it needs to be poured around the edges of the baking dish, rather than on top. Otherwise, you will find that the parmesan crumb will be washed off the top of the potato slices. Finally, it’s important to brown those potatoes towards the end to get a lovely crunchy topping.

Italian chicken and potato bake
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ITALIAN CHICKEN AND POTATO BAKE

Servings

4 servings

Prep time

20 minutes

Cooking time

60 minutes

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Italian chicken and potato bake

  • 6 chicken thighs

  • 1 red onion, finely diced

  • 1 garlic clove, finely chopped

  • 1 red pepper, finely sliced or 10 cherry tomatoes, halved

  • 1 tsp dry thyme

  • 4 medium white potatoes

  • 60g breadcrumbs

  • 60g grated parmesan

  • Fresh parsley, handful, finely chopped

  • 400ml vegetable stock

  • Extra virgin olive oil

  • Sea salt

  • Black pepper

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ITALIAN CHICKEN AND POTATO BAKE

  • Pre-heat the oven to 190c
  • First, prep the chicken by placing it in a bowl. Add the onion, garlic, sliced pepper or tomatoes and dry thyme. Season with salt and pepper. Then make sure you coat the chicken well with all the ingredients. Set aside.
  • Next, prepare the potatoes. Peel them and then cut them into 0.5cm slices. Set aside
  • In a separate bowl, mix together the breadcrumbs, parmesan and parsley
  • Now we are ready to build our bake. Make sure you coat the baking dish with a little drizzle of olive oil. First, place a layer of potato slices, season with salt, then sprinkle on top with a quarter of the parmesan crumb.
  • Next, layer the chicken on top and add all the ingredients which has been marinating in. Drizzle a little olive oil on top and sprinkle a third of the remaining parmesan crumb.
  • Place another layer of potato slices on top, ensuring that they overlap slightly with each other and the chicken is well covered. Season with a little salt and sprinkle the remaining parmesan crumb. Drizzle with olive oil on top.
  • Finally, carefully pour stock around the sides and make sure that the chicken is covered in liquid.
  • Cover with tin foil and bake in the oven for 30 minutes. Then remove the foil., turn the heat up to 220c and bake for another 15 minutes until the potatoes have browned.
  • Serve immediately
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SAVE THIS RECIPE WHEN YOU ARE IN NEED OF SEXY SELF CARE COOKING. 
This dish not only slaps in tonnes of flavour it’s the perfect delicious comforting reward after a busy day. 
It’s an easy and simple recipe to follow which is what we need after a busy day.  You need to try it if you enjoy these ingredients:
Peas
Spinach
Leeks
Pancetta
Gnocchi 
Lemon
Mascarpone (you can use any cream cheese)
Using @martini and @parmigianoreggianouk to make sure that this dish taste absolutely banging. And it really does. 
Plus my flat mates @microplaneintl made sure that I  only added the lemon zest and not the pith which can be bitter and affect the flavour of the dish. Everyone needs to get one. 
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Cooking can calm your mind. However for some cooking can be so stressful and l may actively avoid it as it feels too much to do after a long busy day. However over the years I have practised fun mindful cooking. Yes I did say Fun. 😂💃🏻 It takes time but it’s all about changing your mindset and attitude when it comes to cooking. Plus there are some practises that can help to calm your mind down and reduce the stress cooking can cause you. Instead of feeling like a chore it can help you relax after a long busy day. It can help you focus on something else and forget about everything you have had to deal with that day. Plus you get to reward yourself with a delicious meal cooked with love. It’s the best feeling after a crazy busy day. Working on something fun and helpful for you, but if you currently find cooking difficult or stressful would you mind sharing in the comment lor Dm me what is the main thing that makes it difficult for you. And I’ll take that into consideration when putting my new project together. We will get this nation with love and your input will help make that change. #selfcaretip #cookinglove #mindfulcooking #selfcarecooking #wellnesslifestyle #busymomlife #businessownerlife #eatbetterfeelbetter #cookwithlove #cookingteacher #selfcareeveryday #selfcarehacks #selflovematters #mindfulnessmatters
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From personal experience when you’re busy running your own business or your job is a priority for you it can be difficult to make time for yourself.  Whatever your body and mind needs.
Unfortunately that doesn’t get you anywhere good. You just get into a deeper hole of ‘I don’t have time’ or ‘that won’t make a difference really’ or ‘I can’t make time for myself’. Cooking food becomes harder. You start to resent it, stresses you out and bring bouts of overwhelm. 
I know because I was that person. On many occasions. When I worked in a corporate environment and when trying to build my own business. It’s easy to forget what’s more important and that’s your happiness, health and joy. 
There are so many waysto bring wellness into your life, but cooking is what really changed my life and I’m here to help you too if you want to easily translate your love of food at home. Lose your unhealthy emotions with cooking and instead create a positive fun relationship.
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LETS GET THE NATION COOKING WITH LOVE. My mission is to help this nation of busy people to slow down where possible. Help transform their cooking relationship so that they can embrace the joys of mindful home cooking as an easy accessible fun source of self care. From personal experience when you’re busy running your own business or your job is a priority for you it can be difficult to make time for yourself. Whatever your body and mind needs. Unfortunately that doesn’t get you anywhere good. You just get into a deeper hole of ‘I don’t have time’ or ‘that won’t make a difference really’ or ‘I can’t make time for myself’. Cooking food becomes harder. You start to resent it, stresses you out and bring bouts of overwhelm. I know because I was that person. On many occasions. When I worked in a corporate environment and when trying to build my own business. It’s easy to forget what’s more important and that’s your happiness, health and joy. There are so many waysto bring wellness into your life, but cooking is what really changed my life and I’m here to help you too if you want to easily translate your love of food at home. Lose your unhealthy emotions with cooking and instead create a positive fun relationship. This post is filled with recipes to hopefully inspire you to want to cook a meal that makes you feel good this coming week. I know it can’t be easy every day but making a small step in the right direction makes all the difference to how you feel. Sign up to my free newsletter for more mindful self care cooking tips and inspo. Link in bio. Paola #homecookingisthebest #cookwithlove #eatbetterfeelbetter #selfcarelove #mindfulcooking #wellnesstips
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Peoples poor relationships with food is sometimes caused by their resentment of having to cook dinner all the time or maybe they are someone who has always believed they can’t cook.
The two unfortunately go hand in hand. And if you want to eat better, you really have to rely on yourself to make that stick. No diet plan or meal plan is going to change how you feel about cooking fundamentally and we need that to change so that we can embrace home cooking for the self care it really can be in our lives.
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If you’re looking to make some time for some fun delicious cooking, make time for you and some self care. My online self care cooking community is all about taking out the stress and overwhelm that you may feel in the kitchen and transform your cooking relationship so that you find the fun, empowering and rewarding side to it. Peoples poor relationships with food is sometimes caused by their resentment of having to cook dinner all the time or maybe they are someone who has always believed they can’t cook. The two unfortunately go hand in hand. And if you want to eat better, you really have to rely on yourself to make that stick. No diet plan or meal plan is going to change how you feel about cooking fundamentally and we need that to change so that we can embrace home cooking for the self care it really can be in our lives. I create this membership specifically for this reason. To be a helping hand, to motivate you, be your cheerleader and remind you that you are worth it. You deserve to nourish yourself with meals that will make you happy, give you pleasure and full of goodness. As well as monthly cook alongs you have an unlimited access to a recipe library which is updated weekly with gorgeous self care meal ideas so that you never have to wonder what to cook for dinner. For more info head to the link in my bio. Oh P.S. prices are going up from Feb onwards so if you want it to have your monthly membership at £35 join this week. #cookingcommunity #onlinecookingclasses #cookathome #selfcaredaily #mindfulcooking #selfloveaccount #cookwithlove #eatbetterfeelbetter
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