Healthy chicken breast recipe for 6 people, takes only 45 mins; recipe has onion, garlic clove, ginger, chicken stock, ground coriander, ground cumin, ground turmeric, cardamom pod, red chilli, ground almond, tomato puree, chicken breast, coriander, red onion, cucumber, banana, lime and basmati rice.
Fragrant spiced chicken with banana sambal
Course: Healthy chicken breast
Servings
6
servings
Prep time
15 mins
Ingredients
- Onion: 2 large onions, quartered
- Garlic Clove: 4 garlic cloves
- Ginger: thumb-sized piece ginger, peeled and roughly chopped
- Chicken Stock: 600ml reduced-salt chicken stock
- Ground Coriander: 1 tsp ground coriander
- Ground Cumin: 1 tsp ground cumin
- Ground Turmeric: 1/2 tsp ground turmeric
- Cardamom Pod: 4 green cardamom pods
- Red Chilli: 1 large red chilli, deseeded and finely chopped
- Ground Almond: 2 tbsp ground almond
- Tomato Puree: 2 tbsp tomato puree
- Chicken Breast: 500g skinless chicken breast, cubed
- Coriander: small pack coriander, chopped
- Red Onion: 1 small red onion, finely chopped
- Cucumber: 1/4 cucumber, peeled, deseeded and diced
- Banana: 1 small banana, diced
- Lime: zest and juice 1/2 lime
- Basmati Rice: 250g pack ready-cooked brown basmati rice
Directions
- Put the onions in a food processor with the garlic and ginger. Blitz until it is as smooth as possible, then pour in half the stock and blitz again.
- Heat a large non-stick pan, sprinkle in the spices and toast for 1 min. Pour in the onion mixture, the remaining stock and all but 1/2 tsp of the chopped chilli. Add the almonds and tomato puree, and stir well. Simmer for 35 mins until completely soft, stirring every now and then and adding a little water if the mixture starts to catch on the bottom of the pan.
- Add the chicken and half the fresh coriander. Heat very gently for 10 mins to cook the chicken through. Mix all the sambal ingredients with the remaining coriander and chilli, and heat the rice following pack instructions. Serve the chicken and sambal with the brown rice.
