
One-pot Mexican chicken and rice
Chicken thighs, rice, beans and sweetcorn cooked together in a smoky tomato stock.
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Ingredients
- Chicken thigh fillets500 g
- Basmati rice300 g
- Red kidney beans (tin)1 tin
- Sweetcorn (tin)1 tin
- Chopped tomatoes (tin)1 tin
- Brown onions150 g
- Peppers1 pepper
- Vegetable stock cubes1 cube
Also uses from the cupboard: vegetable oil, table salt, ground black pepper, paprika, ground cumin. 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
- Cut the chicken thighs into chunks. Heat a tablespoon of oil in a large pan with a lid over a medium-high heat and brown the chicken for 5 minutes. Chop the onion and pepper, add and cook for 5 minutes.500 g chicken thigh fillets150 g brown onions1 pepper
- Stir in a teaspoon of paprika and a teaspoon of cumin, then stir in the rice.300 g basmati rice
- Add the chopped tomatoes, the crumbled stock cube and 600 ml of water. Bring to the boil, cover and simmer on a low heat for 18 minutes.1 tin chopped tomatoes1 cube
- Stir in the drained kidney beans and sweetcorn, cover again and leave off the heat for 5 minutes before serving.1 tin red kidney beans1 tin sweetcorn
Toast the spices in the oil with the onions for a minute before the rice goes in. It wakes them right up.
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