One-pot chicken & chickpea pilau

Name: One-pot chicken & chickpea pilau
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 1 Tbsp olive oil; 4 chicken thighs, skinless and trimmed of fat; 2 larges leeks, thinly sliced; 2 garlic cloves, crushed; 400 grams chickpeas in water, drained and rinsed; 1 grated zest of lemon; 200 grams easy-cook brown rice; 450 milliliters chicken stock; 1 head broccoli, broken into florets

One-pot chicken & chickpea pilau might be a good recipe to expand your main course recipe box. This recipe serves 4. Watching your figure? This gluten free and dairy free recipe has 469 calories, 33g of protein, and 12g of fat per serving. This recipe covers 38% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. This recipe from BBC Good Food requires olive oil, chicken thighs, easy-cook brown rice, and garlic cloves. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 40 minutes. Users who liked this recipe also liked Chicken Pilau, Chicken-and-Collards Pilau, and Oven-baked chicken pilau.

Instructions

Heat a large, lidded frying pan or fl ameproof casserole and add the oil. Fry the chicken thighs for 2 mins, turning halfway through cooking, until lightly coloured, then lift onto a plate.

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Chicken Thighs

Cooking Oil

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Frying Pan

Add the leeks to the pan and stir-fry for 3 mins, then add the garlic and tip in the chickpeas, most of the lemon zest and rice. Stir together until well mixed.

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Lemon Zest

Chickpeas

Garlic

Leek

Rice

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Frying Pan

Nestle the chicken in the rice mix.

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Whole Chicken

Rice

Pour over the stock and season lightly. Cover and cook on a low heat for 20 mins until the chicken is nearly cooked through and the rice has absorbed nearly all the liquid. Sit the broccoli on top of the rice, cover and continue to cook until the rice and broccoli are tender and the chicken cooked.

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Broccoli