How to cook turkish chicken thighs

Gather all your ingredients

Always work with fresh, quality spices. Look in your cupboard or pantry, how old are your spices? Did you know they have expiration dates?

Mince your garlic

Dice your onion.

Assemble the spice mixture

Squeeze those key limes, pour through a small strainer to remove any seeds that escaped.

Chop chop chop that cilantro! Did you know that cilantro is Spanish for coriander?

Dice up those sweet potatoes, keeping the skin on

Take the chicken thighs out of the package and place in the container you will be marinating in

Mise en place...French for everything in its place. Much easier to prepare a dish if all your ingredients are ready to go!

Add key lime juice to chicken

Add spice blend to chicken

Coming together! Looking good!

Add cilantro

Add garlic

Gather all your prepped items and set yourself up by your cooktop

Add the coconut oil to your med-high heated pot

Add onions, we're looking to sweat the onions. Heat to low will just sauté, we need a little heat to put a quick brown on them!

Here we go, sweating and starting to caramelize.

Once onions have just about caramelized, 5 minutes or so, move them off to the side of your pot. Separately add each piece to the pot, so all surfaces touch the bottom. Put onions on top of chicken.

Onions are sweat perfectly

Browned and flipped to the other side, about 8 minutes or so.

Add sweet potatoes

Add chicken stock

Cover and let simmer until chicken thighs are cooked thoroughly, when pierced the juices should be clear. Sweet potatoes will be cooked just enough to be tender but retain their shape.

Serve with a little sprinkling of cilantro