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Twice-as-nice chicken
Photo: Lily Banse

Twice-as-nice chicken

17 ingredients 30 min + 30 min Serves 2 openrecipes

Nigel Slater’s simple roast chicken and brown rice makes a healthy mid-week supper.

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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

790
Calories
45g
Protein
31g
Fat
89g
Carbs

Counts 13 of 14 ingredients — the other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and contribute nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume — 13 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Rice 1 cup cooked (158g) white 206
Chicken 100g cooked 165
Pistachio 1 oz (28g / ~49 kernels) 159
Olive Oil 1 tbsp (14g) 119
Cherry 1 cup (138g) 87
Apricot 1 medium (35g) 17
Lemon juice of 1 lemon (48ml) 12
Cinnamon 1 tsp ground (2.6g) 6
Cardamom 1 tsp ground (2g) 6
Thyme 1 tsp dried (1.4g) 4
Garlic 1 clove (3g) 4
Dill 5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried 4
Parsley 1 tbsp chopped fresh (3.8g) 1
Peppermint not in our table 0

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 2 chicken breasts
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • juice of half a lemon
  • 2 sprigs thyme
  • 2 garlic
  • 250g/9oz brown basmati rice
  • stick cinnamon
  • 4 green cardamom
  • 1 garlic
  • 50g/2oz pistachio
  • 60g/2¼oz golden sultanas
  • 150g/5½oz dried apricots
  • 150g/5½oz cherries
  • handful roughly chopped fresh dill and parsley
  • the leaves of a few sprigs of fresh mint
  • 200ml/7fl oz natural yoghurt
  • a pinch or two of ground cinnamon

Directions

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By bbcfood · Recipe sourced from openrecipes

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