Canja (Portuguese chicken and rice soup)
Portugal's comfort-in-a-bowl: chicken and rice soup with lemon and mint.
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Ingredients
- Chicken thigh fillets500 g
- Basmati rice200 g
- Carrots200 g
- Brown onions150 g
- Vegetable stock cubes2 cubes
- Lemons1 lemon
- Sliced wholemeal bread320 g
Also uses from the cupboard: table salt, ground black pepper. Missing any? You can add them to your shop on the shopping list.
Usually contains: Celery, Gluten.
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Estimated from typical ingredient values, including a teaspoon of oil. Children's portions are smaller.
Method
- Chop the onion and carrots. Put them in a large pot with the chicken thighs, the crumbled stock cubes and 1.6 litres of water. Simmer for 25 minutes.500 g chicken thigh fillets200 g carrots150 g brown onions2 cubes
- Lift out the chicken and shred it with two forks.
- Add the rice to the pot and simmer for 12 minutes until tender.200 g basmati rice
- Return the chicken, squeeze in the juice of the lemon and season with salt and pepper. Serve with the bread.1 lemon320 g sliced wholemeal bread
A few torn mint leaves on top, if you have them, make it taste just like it does in Lisbon.
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