Brazilian-style Chicken Stew with Chickpeas & Courgette

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High protein 1/3 daily fibre 6 plants

Brazilian-style Chicken Stew with Chickpeas & Courgette

Prep time: 15 mins
Total time: 30 mins
Cuisine: South American
Food group: Poultry

Free-range chicken thighs simmered in a delicious Brazilian-inspired stew. Think: gentle, warming spices. Juicy tomatoes, courgette and spinach. Full-of-fibre chickpeas. Just swirl in creamy coconut and lashings of lime to make the flavours sing! It's ready in 30 mins.

Cooking Instructions

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Before you start

  • Pull out a large lidded frying pan, a measuring jug & a sieve

Prep time

  • Dice the courgettes into 2cm chunks. Halve the tomatoes. Drain and rinse the chickpeas. Dice the chicken into 3cm pieces

Combine the flavours

  • Heat the large frying pan with 1 tbsp oil on medium-high heat. Once hot, add the courgette and chicken and cook for 3-4 mins, until softening, then add the tomatoes and cook for another 3-4 mins. Season with salt and pepper
  • Add the garlic paste, tomato puree, tempero baiano and chickpeas. Cook for 2 mins

Get your simmer on

  • Add the chicken, stock powder, coconut milk and 200ml hot water to the pan. Cover with a lid, then bring to a boil
  • Simmer for 8 mins, until the chicken is cooked through and the sauce has thickened
  • Roughly chop the parsley
  • In the final minute of cooking, rinse the spinach and stir into the stew until wilted. Add a splash of water if it becomes too dry

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
  • Stir in half the parsley and the juice from half the lime (or to taste). Season with salt and pepper
  • Serve the stew into bowls and sprinkle over the remaining parsley. Garnish with the remaining lime, cut into wedges

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