Showing posts with label chicken. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chicken. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 May 2015

Ginger, chilli and lime chicken breasts with harissa and chorizo chickpeas

Super-long-blog-post-title is long!

I work later than my fiance, and as such we generally like making meals that are quick and easy and require the least number of ingredients possible. This fits that bill completely!


It's so yummy, and warming! Technically with a low-FODMAP diet, you're not supposed to have chorizo and most other sausages, but I bought it, had it in my fridge, and I refuse to let food go bad!

You will need:
  • 2 chicken breasts
  • 1 lime
  • Chilli flakes - as many as you like
  • Half inch of grated ginger
  • 1 can of chickpeas
  • 1 can chopped tomatoes
  • 2 little chorizo sausages (50g) chopped
  • 1 teaspoon harissa paste
So I cut the breasts in half and flattened them a little, then rubbed them with a mix of chilli, lime zest and ginger, then grilled them until cooked. While cooking, I drizzled them with lime juice, too.
Meanwhile, chop up the chorizo and heat in a pan until the oils begin to run, then add in the chickpeas, tomato and harissa paste. It only needs to cook for about 5 minutes, as that all it'll take for the chorizo to be cooked through and the chickpeas, too. 

Then you simply plate it up! Very yummy, protein filled, low calorie meal. Ideal. 


Saturday, 9 May 2015

Lemon and Thyme Chicken

The butchers near where I work is excellent. The people who work there are so friendly and helpful, and they have some of the nicest cuts of meat and are always there to offer advice for what to do with them!

So the other week when they had 10 chicken breasts on for £10 I of course had to jump on it. They were all big, from free range hens from a farm only 2 miles down the road from the butchers. Now that's what I call local produce!


So the next easy meal had to be chicken, and it couldn't be simpler.

You will need:

  • Chicken breasts (I used 4)
  • Dried thyme - or fresh
  • 1 lemon zested 
  • 200ml chicken stock
Rub the chicken breasts with the thyme and lemon zest, then place in a baking dish with the stock and the lemon cut into quarters. Then bake in the oven at about 150C Fan until the juices run clear - about 30 to 45 minutes depending on your oven.

We served them whole in our little tupperware lunch boxes with mashed sweet potato and roasted carrots.