Quick Easy Chicken Recipes
Mediterranean Chicken

Mediterranean Chicken

This recipe serves 8 persons.

This is a one pot dish, complete with carbohydrates in the rice, protein in the meat and vegetables.

You'll need:

•    2 lb/1 kg chicken meat, cut into 1" chunks

•    2 large onions, diced thickly

•    2 chorizo, diced thickly

•    2 sticks of celery, diced

•    2 carrots, diced

•    2 1/2 cups rice, uncooked

•    1 tbspn piri-piri flakes (optional)

•    5 cups chicken stock

•    1 tin/14oz/400gm diced tomatoes

•    2 cups frozen peas

•    2 red bell peppers/capsicums, large dices

How to put it together:

•    Into a moderately hot fry pan, brown chicken meat and chorizo

•    In the meantime, cut up onion, carrot and celery. Toss them into the pan

•    When the chicken is browned but not cooked all the way through, toss in the grains of rice.  Cook for a few minutes

•    Pour in stock.

•    Add piri-piri, if you'd like this with a little bite. Otherwise omit this condiment.

•    Stir to combine and leave it on moderate low for 30 minutes till the rice cooks

•    When the rice is cooked and 5 minutes before serving, stir in peas and capsicum. Turn off heat, cover for 5 minutes. The heat from the pan and meal will cook the peas and capsicums without overcooking them.