Slimming World Friendly Chicken and Rice with All The Greens!
This dish is a simple flavourful hearty recipe that will have you feeling full up and satisfied for hours. Plus as I use mostly frozen veggies it is also very nice on the food budget. Its slimming world friendly as it contains no syns, and is jam packed with a tonne of green vegetables to give it a great healthy speed boost...and helps you sneak some more veg into the kids while you're at it. Its the perfect weekday evening dish for all the family to enjoy, that can easily be whipped up in under 30 minutes, in a pressure cooker or on the hob!
Ingredients
- 3 Chicken Breasts diced
- 1 large leek sliced
- 2 cups frozen diced cabbage
- 4 blocks frozen spinach
- 1 cup frozen peas
- 1.5 cups long grain rice
- 2 cups cold water
- 1 chicken stock cube
- 1 tsp smoked paprika
- 1 tsp lazy garlic
- 1 tsp dried basil
- 1 tsp dried oregano
- 1 tsp onion powder
- fry light
Instructions
- Mix together the paprika, basil, oregano and Onion Powder, add to the chicken and mix well to coat, set aside to marinade
- Spray your pressure cooker with fry light and set to sauté, add the leeks and fry until starting to soften 4-5 mins. Then add the lazy garlic and mix well, allow to sauté for another minute or 2
- Add the chicken to the pan and fry until it has browned all over.
- Stop the sauté setting. Add all the remaining ingredients to the pan and mix well (you may wish to crumble to stock cube in as it won't break up easily on its own with cold water .
- Place the lid on the pressure cooker, close the vale and set to manual 5 minutes, high pressure.
- Once the timer is done allow the machine to natural release for 10 minutes, then carefully open the value to release any remaining pressure (be careful of the steam)
- Remove the lid and mix the contents well, making sure the spinach blocks have separated. All the water should have been absorbed and the rice should be perfectly cooked
- Your dish is ready to serve!
- Enjoy
Notes
If you would like it a little creamy, more risotto like, stir through a few tbsp of granted Parmesan...but remember to syn it if your on SW, or use one of your Healthy Extras