Creamy chicken with braised leeks & carrots | Recipe Cart

Ingredients

• 8 pieces of chicken bone-in, and skin on (8 thighs, or 4 legs and 4 thighs), or one whole bird cut into 8 pieces
• 3 Tbsp olive oil
• 5-6 medium /large leeks washed and trimmed, cut into discs
• 4 medium carrots peeled and cut into rounds on the bias
• 2 long sprigs of fresh rosemary leaves stripped and very finely chopped (just over 1 Tbsp)
• 3 thyme stalks can keep whole
• 50 gms butter
• 3 Tbsp flour
• 250 ml 1 cup orange juice (or naartjie / clementine juice)
• 125 ml 1/2 cup milk
• 250 ml 1 cup cream
• 1 Tbsp honey
• 2 sachets of liquid chicken stock – or cubes or pots
• Serve with rice brown or white basmati