One-Pot Rooster and Rice With Olive Gremolata

Step 1

Season 4 hen legs (thigh and drumstick; about 2½ lb. total), patted drygenerously at some point soon of with kosher salt. Heat 2 Tbsp. extra-virgin olive oil in a shining Dutch oven or different heavy pot over medium-high. Cook 2 hen legs, pores and skin facet down, till golden brown and crisp below, about 5 minutes. Flip over and cook till golden brown on the several facet, 2–3 minutes. Switch hen to a shining plate. Repeat with final 2 legs, adjusting heat as wished to protect hen from sizzling (pot will be powerful hotter at this point and 2nd batch will brown sooner).

Step 2

Get rid of pot from heat and pour off all nonetheless ¼ cup beefy; discard. Add 1 shining onion, finely choppedand 3 garlic cloves, thinly slicedto pot and return to medium-high heat. Cook, stirring every so in most cases, till softened, about 4 minutes. Sprinkle in 1 Tbsp. plus 1½ tsp. smoked paprika and 1 Tbsp. ground cumin and cook, stirring in most cases, till spices are evenly dispensed and fragrant, about 1 minute. Add 1½ cups basmati or different prolonged-grain rice, rinsed till water runs almost optimisticand 2¼ tsp. Diamond Crystal or 1½ tsp. Morton kosher salt; cook, stirring in most cases, till rice is toasted, about 1 minute. Add 3 Tbsp. sherry vinegar or crimson wine vinegar; cook, stirring and scraping up browned bits caught to bottom of pot in most cases, till liquid is absorbed, about 30 seconds.

Step 3

Rush in 1¾ cups low-sodium hen brothprolong heat to high, and lift to a boil. Nestle hen legs, pores and skin facet up, into rice. Veil, sever heat to low, and cook till hen is soft and rice is cooked thru, 22–27 minutes. Get rid of from heat and let sit 10 minutes (face up to peeking right here). Expose and fluff rice with a fork.

Step 4

Within the intervening time, toss 1½ cups green olives, pitted, coarsely chopped, ⅓ cup finely chopped parsley, 1 garlic clove, finely gratedfinal ¼ cup extra-virgin olive oiland final 3 Tbsp. sherry vinegar or crimson wine vinegar in a minute bowl to combine; season olive gremolata with salt.

Step 5

Spoon some olive gremolata over hen in pot, then wait onhen with final olive gremolata alongside.