STEP 01
Marinate
Roughly chop the garlic and mix it with prunes, olives, capers, oregano, bay leaf, red wine vinegar, honey, wine, salt, pepper, and chili powder. Add chicken, toss, cover and refrigerate 12–24 hours.
EARTHY, SLOW-COOKED, ROOTED IN THE SOIL.
Marinated Chicken with Prunes & Olives
Prep 20 min + overnightCook 45 min4
01 — INGREDIENTS
Ingredients
- ¾ kg whole chicken, jointed
- 32½ g prunes
- 32½ g jarred pitted green olives
- 1½ cloves garlic
- 1 tbsp capers
- ¾ tbsp dried oregano
- 1½ bay leaves
- ½ tsp chili powder
- 60 ml red wine vinegar
- 60 ml white wine
- 1 tbsp honey
- ½ tbsp salt
- 1 tsp pepper
- 3 tbsp La Terra extra virgin olive oil
- knife
- cutting board
- large bowl
- baking dish
A bright, savoury-sweet braise inspired by family Sunday lunches — chicken marinated overnight with prunes, capers and green olives, finished with La Terra.
02 — STEPS
Method
STEP 02
Roast
Preheat oven to 180°C. Tip everything into a baking dish, drizzle with 2 tbsp La Terra, and roast 40–45 minutes, basting once.
STEP 03
Finish
Rest 5 minutes. Finish with the last spoon of La Terra and a few oregano leaves. Serve with crusty bread to mop the juices.
03 — ABOUT THE OIL
La Terra
La Terra is the soul of the estate poured into a bottle — an oil that tastes of the land it grew from. Made from olives picked when fully mature, it carries a deep, golden character: warm, rounded, with notes of ripe tomato leaf, walnut and a faint memory of wood smoke.
Where La Raccolta is loud, La Terra is patient. Its bitterness is softer, its pepper slower to arrive. It is the oil our grandparents reached for instinctively — the everyday oil that turns a humble braise into a Sunday lunch.
Marinated chicken with prunes and olives is built for this oil. The slow heat releases its rounder aromatics; the briny olives echo its mineral undertone; the sweetness of prunes balances its grounded bitterness. Used both in the marinade and as a final raw drizzle, La Terra ties every flavour back to the soil it came from.
Pour the last spoon at the table, never before. Heat dulls the bright top notes; a raw finish keeps them alive.
PAIRS WITH
La Terra
La Terra's earthy, robust profile stands up to the briny olives and sweet prunes.
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