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Free-range Chicken Bhuna with Fragrant Peanut Rice
Forget the takeaway: this curry is bursting with fresh flavour. Ginger, garlic and bhuna spices sizzle with tender free-range British chicken breasts. Add juicy tomatoes, peppers, onions and wilted spinach. Serve with rice, packed with nutty peanuts for extra crunch!
High protein
1/3 daily fibre
8 plants
Low sat fat
Serving size
Ingredients
- 8 tsp ginger & garlic paste (Ginger puree IQF, Garlic puree IQF, Citric Acid, Water)
- 2 tbsp bhuna spice blend (Mustard) (Ground Coriander, Ground Cumin, Mustard Powder ( MUSTARD), Ground Fennel Seed, Chilli Powder, Ground Fenugreek, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Ginger Ground.)
- 200g baby tomatoes
- 400g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 600g diced British Free Range chicken breast
- 2 pepper
- 1 tsp fennel seeds
- 1 tbsp curry powder (Turmeric Ground, Coriander Ground, Onion Powder, Garlic Powder, Ground Fenugreek, Fennel Seed, Chilli Powder, Pepper Black Ground, Salt)
- 80g baby spinach
- 1 onion
- 40g roasted peanuts (Peanuts, Nuts, Sesame)
- 200g brown rice (100% Brown Rice)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 585
Protein: 48g
Carbs: 61g
Fat: 17g
Free-range Chicken Bhuna with Fragrant Peanut Rice
Forget the takeaway: this curry is bursting with fresh flavour. Ginger, garlic and bhuna spices sizzle with tender free-range British chicken breasts. Add juicy tomatoes, peppers, onions and wilted spinach. Serve with rice, packed with nutty peanuts for extra crunch!
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Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- Bring a large saucepan filled with salted water to a boil
- Pull out a large frying pan, a measuring jug & a sieve
Get the rice on
- Add the rice to the saucepan and boil for 25-30 mins, until cooked, then drain
Soften the veg
- Thinly slice the onion and peppers
- Heat the large frying pan with 1 tbsp oil on medium-high heat. Once hot, add the onion and pepper and cook for 5-7 mins, until softened
- Meanwhile, halve the tomatoes. Rinse the spinach
Get the curry going
- Add the ginger & garlic paste, fennel seeds, bhuna spice blend, and curry powder to the pan and cook for 1-2 mins, until fragrant
- Add the chicken, stir well to coat in the spices, then cook for 4 mins
- Add the tomatoes, passata and 200ml water. Bring to a boil then simmer for 13 mins, until the chicken is cooked through and the sauce thickens. Season with salt and pepper
- Add the spinach in the last minute of cooking
Meanwhile, finish the rice
- Wipe the saucepan clean and reheat with 1 tbsp oil on medium heat. Once hot, add the peanuts and cook for 1-2 mins, until fragrant
- Add the cooked rice back to the saucepan and stir. Season with salt and pepper
Plate up
- Check your chicken is cooked through by cutting a large piece in half; the flesh should be white and the juices running clear
- Serve the chicken bhuna into bowls, alongside the peanut rice
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