Chicken Legs with Sweet Tomatoes & Basil

Ingredients

• 1 chicken (preferably pasture-raised, organic, cut into parts
• Sea salt & freshly ground black pepper
• 1 big bunch fresh basil, leaves picked, stalks finely chopped
• 2 big handfuls red and yellow cherry tomatoes and ripe plum or beefsteak tomatoes, cherry tomatoes halved, plum tomatoes quartered
• 1 whole bulb garlic, broken into cloves
• 1 fresh red chile, finely chopped, or a big pinch of dried chile flakes
• Olive oil
• One 14.5-ounce/410 g can cannelini beans, drained and rinsed (optional)
• 2 handfuls new potatoes, scrubbed (optional)