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Speedy Spanish chicken rice

Serves:

2

Cook Time:

20

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Notes

Ingredients

  • Light olive oil/vegetable oil

  • 2 chicken breasts, diced

  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed

  • 160g fine green beans, trimmed and halved

  • 1x 250g pouch steamed white basmati rice

  • 2 tsp. smoked paprika

  • 1 chicken stock cube

  • 100ml boiling water

  • 2 tbsp. mayonnaise

  • 1 lemon, 1/2 juiced and 1/2 cut into wedges

  • Small handful parsley, finely chopped

Method

  1. Heat a drizzle of oil in a frying pan over a medium-high heat and add the diced chicken with a pinch of salt. Fry for a few minutes until starting to brown.

  2. Add the garlic and green beans and fry for a further few minutes.

  3. Microwave the rice according to the packet instructions.

  4. Add the smoked paprika to the pan and stir for a minute, then add the cooked rice, crumbled stock cube and 100ml boiling water. Stir thoroughly and simmer for a few minutes until the chicken is cooked through.

  5. Meanwhile, squeeze the juice of 1/4 lemon into the mayonnaise and add a small pinch of salt & pepper. Mix and check for seasoning. This is your lemon mayo.

  6. Squeeze the rest of the lemon juice into the Spanish chicken rice, add a good grinding of pepper and check for seasoning.

  7. Serve with a drizzle of the lemon mayo, the parsley sprinkled on top and a lemon wedge.

Nutrition

kcal

546

fat

16.5

sat fat

1.4

carbs

50.4

sugars

3

fibre

5.2

protein

53.7

salt

0.7

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