I think one of the reasons I love this so much is that it was the first proper meal I ate after the birth of my first daughter and I was starving, and sleep-deprived and shellshocked and it just took all of that away- it’s such comfort food! The garlicky roast tomatoes, mixed with the spicy chicken, juicy raisins, crunchy sunflower seeds and lemon and herbs is just to die for!
The original Leon recipe uses pine-nuts rather than sunflower seeds, but I always substitute these as pine-nuts are so expensive and the sunflower seeds work perfectly.
Would you like more meal ideas using chicken? Here are some of my favourites:
Lemony turmeric potato and chicken traybake
Cheeky Nando’s style peri-peri chicken
Oven-baked chicken cacciatore