Chicken, cheese, peas, and corn

Last week I learnt that if I put some baby green peas in a baking tray and put a piece of deboned chicken thigh on top I end up with some peas which remain green and soft and some peas which go brown and crunchy.

I really enjoyed both textures.

Ingredients

• Chicken thigh and drumstick which are also known in Australia as a chicken Maryland
• Cheese
• Baby green peas
• Corn cob
• Butter
• Black peppercorns
• Iodised salt

Instructions

• Remove the drumstick from the femur.
• Remove the femur.
• Poor frozen baby green peas into the base of a baking tray.
• Lay the deboned chicken thigh meat with the skin on top of the peas and season the skin with black peppercorns and iodised salt which has been ground with a mortar and pestle.
• Add the corn cob into the baking tray.
• Put the baking tray into an oven heated to 200 °C (392 °F) and cook for 40 minutes.
• After 40 minutes, add some cheese to the chicken and put it back into the oven for 5 minutes.
• Remove the baking tray and allow the chicken to rest for 5 minutes.
• Transfer all the food to a dinner plate and add a knob of butter to the corn cob.
• Eat and enjoy the meal.