This quick and simple Spanish Chicken Tray Bake with Potatoes is super easy but big on flavour. Chicken thighs, chorizo and smoky paprika make for a delicious meal. The best bit…only one pan to wash up! The perfect family dinner.
Have you seen a more colourful tray bake to brighten up a mid week dinner?!
This Spanish Chicken recipe not only looks flipping delish, it tastes it too.
Packed with the smokey paprika and chorizo flavours (please tell me it’s not just me who always nibbles a piece or two, or five of chorizo whilst it’s cooking?), it’s a complete meal. Hurrah for washing up only one pan!
If that wasn’t enough here are three more reasons to make this dish:
✅ All in one pan, no prep.
✅ Chicken thighs are great value.
✅ Super tasty because.. CHORIZO 😍
Top Tip for making the Chicken and Chorizo One Pan recipe:
Tray bakes are perfect for when you are low on time, or energy!! I chop all of my vegetables in the morning, or the night before, and cover and put in the fridge.
That way, when I get home in the evening, I can just throw it all in and help with homework while it cooks. Yesss!
Notes on some of the ingredients in this Spanish Chicken and Chorizo traybake:
Chicken – I use bone in chicken thighs, with skin on, as they are great value and super tasty. Leaving the skin on will give you a pleasing crisp and they won’t fry out in the oven. You can use skinless, or boneless if you prefer, or even chicken breasts. Just reduce the cooking time accordingly.
Chorizo – Buy the ring type chorizo and chop it into chunks. Thin slices won’t really work here.
Olives – Use whichever your favourite pitted olives are.
Onions – I tend to use red onion as it’s quite sweet. But regular white onion is fine too.
Peppers – I use a mixture of red, orange or yellow. Use whichever you prefer.
Tomatoes – I use cherry tomatoes on the vine as they look so pretty! You can use just large tomatoes cut in half or regular cherry tomatoes if you prefer.
Fancy some other one pan/tray bake meals?
- Honey and Mustard Chicken One Pan (the reviews I get on this are SO good – you guys love it!)
- Baked Cod Italian Style One Pan (this is so tasty and a delicious way to eat more fish.)
- One Pan Lemon Asparagus Chicken (an old recipe of mine but still a favourite.)
- Baked Salmon One Pan (a really simple way to cook salmon.)
- Pesto Chicken Bake (a favourite with my children!)
Hope you enjoy this recipe. I’d love to know how you got on and what you thought of it if you make this.
Please rate the recipe using the ⭐️ on the recipe below!
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Spanish Chicken One Pot Recipe
Ingredients
- 150 g Chorizo See Note 1.
- 500 g Potatoes Cut into bite sized pieces.
- 2 Large red onions Peeled and cut into wedges
- 8 Chicken thighs I use bone in, with skin on. See Note 2.
- 3 Peppers Seeded and cut into wedges (I like to use a mixture of colours).
- 400 g Tomatoes See Note 3.
- 100 g Pitted olives Drained. See Note 4.
- 8 Cloves Garlic Whole, in their skins. See Note 5.
- 1 tsp Sea salt
- 1 tsp Freshly ground black pepper
- 2 tsp Garlic powder
- 2 tsp Sweet smoked paprika See Note 6.
To serve
- Chopped flat leaf parsley Optional
- Wedges of lemon for squeezing over Optional
Instructions
- Pre-heat the oven to 200C.
- On a large baking sheet, or casserole dish, mix the chorizo and potatoes. Put into the oven for 15 minutes. (See Note 7.)
- Add all other ingredients and give it a good stir to coat everything in the yummy chorizo oil. Put back into the oven for about 35 minutes or until your chicken is cooked through.
Notes
- Chorizo - Be sure to buy chunks of chorizo, not thin slices.
- Chicken - I use chicken thighs as they are tasty and good value. You can use chicken breasts if you prefer, but you will probably need to reduce the cooking time so they don't over cook.
- Tomatoes - If you like your tomatoes a pretty 'squishy' to make a sauce for the dish, add them with the potatoes at the start of cooking. (I like mine like this, but they will be quite soft!)
- Olives - I know lots of children don't like olives (mine included) but they are worth trying in this as they add a real burst of delicious acidity. If not using them, I'd definitely add a squeeze of lemon before serving.
- Garlic - I add some whole cloves to this bake, then squeeze the delicious roasted garlic from the skins as we eat it. I do this before serving to the children.
- Sweet Smoked Paprika - Be sure this is the type you're using, NOT Hot Smoked Paprika! You could replace regular paprika if it's all you have.
- Non Stick Pan - The oil from the chorizo will come out when you start to cook it, meaning you don't need to add any. If you don't have a non stick baking sheet, you might want to give it a good stir after 5 minutes in the oven to be sure that the potatoes don't stick.Make sure you also use a large enough tin so you can fit everything on in a single layer, if your tray isn't big enough, use two smaller ones.
Nutrition
This recipe was originally published on June 19, 2017. It has been updated with tweaks to the recipe and new photos on September 10, 2019.
Amy Fox says
Oh Sarah this looks amazing! My family LOVE the recipes of yours I’ve tried, so thank you!
Catering in Den Haag says
Good recipe. I ‘ve tried it yesterday it’s lovelly! Thanks for sharing the recipe
Louise says
Best dinner ever!!
Bonnie Phillips says
This was a huge hit!! Super easy to do as well! 5/5!!
Katja says
This is our family favorite. Cheap and easy to do one pot meal!! Have shared this to everyone’!!!
Janie says
Absolutely delicious highly recommend
Cara says
Another lovely meal! Thank you. We all loved it! Super tasty 😊
Hannah says
This was lovely! I’m a huge fan of your recipes. I added the tomatoes and olives very late, but otherwise followed your recipe.
Rochelle says
I’m trying to find out if there is a way to tame cooked chorizo. Some of my family likes the taste of cho, but not the heat.
Sarah Barnes says
You can buy mild chorizo! Not so spicy.
Margaret says
Amazing dish. Thank you Sarah, tried it for the first time today fantastic.
Mojoblogs says
This looks really good. Thank you for sharing this. Will definitely try this soon.
Jodie says
Absolutely delicious – enough for leftovers but everyone had to have a bit extra as was soo yummy!
Michele says
I found this receipe a few days ago and my family LOVE it. It’s so quick and easy. Thank you – this will be a firm favourite in our household.
Lauren says
Love a traybake for ease and so tasty. My go to for when we have people over for dinner.
Justina says
Amazing meal, my son told that my food is best in the world. Really tasty and easy to make.
Louise says
I’ve been told I’m an ‘interesting’ cook as in not very good I think! This was bloomin lovely, went down very well and so tasty. Thank you