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Chicken Piccata with Roast Potatoes, Olive Sauce & Green Beans
Ready to reinvent chicken and rice? Coat free-range British chicken breasts in cornflour and pan-fry till golden and crispy. Drizzle with a homemade, zesty olive sauce and serve with crunchy green beans and golden roast potatoes. Delish!
High protein
Low sat fat
Serving size
Ingredients
- 30g pitted green olives (Green Olives, Sunflower Oil, Sea Salt, Lactic Acid (E270))
- 10g chicken stock powder (Chicory Extract, Yeast Extract, Natural Flavouring, Salt, Onion Powder, Chicken Stock Powder, Rapeseed Oil.)
- 2 garlic clove
- 2 shallot
- 4 tbsp cornflour (use half)
- 4 British Free Range chicken breasts
- 2 unwaxed lemon
- 1 handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 12 baby potatoes
- 240g green beans
Nutritional Information
Calories: 485
Protein: 48g
Carbs: 38g
Fat: 16g
Chicken Piccata with Roast Potatoes, Olive Sauce & Green Beans
Ready to reinvent chicken and rice? Coat free-range British chicken breasts in cornflour and pan-fry till golden and crispy. Drizzle with a homemade, zesty olive sauce and serve with crunchy green beans and golden roast potatoes. Delish!
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Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- Preheat the oven to 240C / fan 220C / gas mark 9 / air fryer 200C
- Line a baking tray with parchment paper
- Pull out a large frying pan, a medium saucepan, a large bowl, a measuring jug & a sieve
Get the potatoes on
- Halve the potatoes lengthways (quarter any large ones)
- Place onto the lined baking tray and toss with 1 tbsp oil and a pinch of salt and pepper
- Roast for 25-30 mins / air fryer 20-25 mins, tossing once, until soft and golden
Cook the chicken
- Quarter 1 lemon
- In the large bowl, combine the chicken, 1 tbsp cornflour and a pinch of salt and pepper. Toss to coat evenly
- Heat the large frying pan with 1 tbsp oil on medium-high heat. Once hot, add the chicken and cook for 4 mins per side. Season with salt and pepper
- Transfer to the potato tray, along with the lemon wedges, and roast for 14 mins, until cooked through
Make the olive sauce
- Meanwhile, halve the other lemon. Finely dice the shallots. Finely chop or crush the garlic. Halve the olives. Dissolve 2 tsp cornflour in the measuring jug with 50ml cold water, then top up with 150ml hot water
- Reheat the pan with 1 tbsp oil on medium-high heat. Once hot, add the shallot, olives and garlic, then cook for 2-3 mins, until softened
- Add the juice from the halved lemon, stock and cornflour mixture. Bring to a boil, then simmer for 3-4 mins, until the sauce thickens
Boil the green beans
- Bring the medium saucepan filled with salted water to a boil
- Trim the green beans, then add to the saucepan and boil for 3-4 mins, until cooked, then drain
Plate up
- Check your chicken is cooked through by inserting a skewer into the thickest part of the meat; the juices should run clear
- Finely chop the parsley and stir into the sauce
- Share the chicken between plates, with the potatoes and green beans alongside. Spoon the olive sauce on top. Garnish with the roasted lemon wedges
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