Spring Chicken | Nigella's Recipes | Nigella Lawson

Ingredients

• 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
• 140 grams pancetta cubes or lardons or chopped bacon
• 12 chicken thighs (bone in, with or without skin)
• 1 leek (cleaned, quartered lengthwise then finely sliced)
• 1 stick celery (quartered lengthwise then finely sliced)
• 3 cloves garlic (peeled and chopped)
• 2 teaspoons dried tarragon
• 1 teaspoon Maldon sea salt flakes or 1/2 teaspoon pouring salt
• good grinding white pepper
• 500 millilitres dry cider
• 300 grams frozen petits pois
• 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
• 2 little gem lettuce (cut into strips or roughly shredded)
• 2 tablespoons chopped fresh tarragon