Romanian Pilaf Recipe | olivemagazine

Ingredients

• 3 tbsp sunflower oil
• 1 whole chicken jointed (ask the butcher or use 8 chicken pieces)
• 2 onions sliced
• 300g pearl barley
• ¼ celeriac peeled and diced
• 2-3 sticks celery diced
• 1 carrot diced
• 1 red pepper diced
• 400g tin chopped tomatoes
• 200g chestnut mushrooms quartered
• 600ml chicken stock
• 2 tsp fine sea salt
• ground to make 1 tsp black peppercorns
• 25g butter
• a small bunch flat-leaf parsley roughly chopped (optional)