Healthy chicken recipe for 1 people, takes only 30 mins; recipe has mince, garlic clove, turmeric, cumin, cinnamon, dill, spring onions, quinoa, cauliflower florets, sweet potato, olive oil, curry powder, pistachio, sultana and lime.
Chicken meatballs with quinoa & curried cauliflower
Course: Healthy chicken
Servings
1
servings
Prep time
25 mins
Ingredients
- Cumin: pinch of cumin
- Turmeric: 1 tsp turmeric
- Garlic Clove: 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
- Olive Oil: 1 tbsp olive oil
- Dill: handful dill, finely chopped
- Curry Powder: 1 tbsp medium curry powder
- Lime: 1/2 lime, juiced
- Cinnamon: pinch of cinnamon
- Spring Onions: 2 spring onions, finely chopped
- Sweet Potato: 25g sweet potato, chopped
- Quinoa: 50g quinoa
- Sultana: 1 tsp sultanas
- Cauliflower Florets: 4 cauliflower florets
- Pistachio: 1 tsp pistachios, chopped
- Mince: 250g chicken mince
Directions
- For the meatballs, mix together all the ingredients in a bowl with some seasoning. Form into six balls and chill in the fridge for 20 mins.
- Heat oven to 200C/180C fan/ gas 6. Wash the quinoa and put it in a saucepan with 100ml water. Bring to the boil, then turn down to a gentle simmer and cook for 10-15 mins or until doubled in size and tender. Drain and set aside to cool.
- Put the cauliflower and sweet potato in a roasting tin and toss in the oil and curry powder. Put the meatballs in a separate tin. Cook both in the oven for 15 mins or until cooked through.
- Mix the quinoa with the cauliflower, sweet potato, pistachios and sultanas, squeeze over the lime juice, then serve with the meatballs.
