🍚 One-Pot Chicken and Pea Rice

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Rice cooked with diced chicken and peas in a single pot. The simplest, most complete spoon dish.

⏱️ 28 min🍽️ 2 servings👩‍🍳 Easy🔥 536 calories per serving💪 35 g protein per serving

Ingredients

  • 3/4 cup uncooked (5.6 oz / 160 g) rice
  • 8.5 oz (240 g) diced chicken breast
  • 2/3 cup (3.5 oz / 100 g) frozen peas
  • 1 3/4 cups (400 ml) vegetable broth
  • 2 cloves garlic
  • 2 1/4 tsp olive oil

How to make it, step by step

  1. Brown the diced chicken in a pot with oil and sliced garlic for 4-5 minutes.
  2. Add the uncooked rice and toast it for 1 minute, stirring.
  3. Pour in the hot broth (twice the volume of the rice), bring to a boil and lower to a gentle simmer.
  4. After 10 minutes add the frozen peas; cook covered for another 8 minutes until the rice absorbs the broth.

Nutrition facts (per serving)

536
calories
35 g
protein
66 g
carbs
12 g
fat

Values are approximate.

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