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Chicken, butterbean & red pesto bake

Chicken, butterbean & red pesto bake

A simple chicken dinner winner, with family friendly flavours to make everyone around the table smile. Add a green vegetable on the side, if you like.

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High protein3 of your 5 a day
  • Serves4
  • CourseMain meal
  • Prepare15 mins
  • Cook35 mins
  • Total time50 mins

Ingredients

  • 560g pack British chicken thigh fillets, cut into large chunks
  • 2 tsp Cooks’ Ingredients Smoked Paprika, plus extra to sprinkle
  • 2 tbsp Essential Olive Oil
  • 1 large head fennel, roughly chopped
  • 3 red peppers, deseeded and sliced
  • 3 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 2 x 400g cans Essential Butter Beans In Water
  • 1 Knorr Chicken Stock Pots
  • 25g pack basil, leaves
  • ½ x 150ml soured cream
  • ½ x 190g Essential Sun-Dried Tomato Pesto

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 190ºC, gas mark 5. Toss the chicken on a plate with the paprika and a little salt. Heat 1 tbsp oil in a frying pan over a high heat, fry the chicken on all sides to seal, then transfer to a large ovenproof dish.

  2. Add the remaining oil, fennel and peppers to the pan and fry for 5 minutes, stirring frequently, adding the garlic for the final minute. Stir in the butter beans and their liquid, the stock pot and 200ml water. Bring to the boil, pour over the chicken, then cover with a lid. Bake for 25 minutes, or until the chicken is throughly cooked and there is no pink meat and juices that run clear

  3. Reserve the smaller basil leaves (about a quarter of the pack) and tear the remainder into small pieces. Stir into the chicken and dot with spoonfuls of soured cream and pesto.

  4. Serve scattered with the reserved basil leaves and an extra sprinkling of paprika.

Cook’s tip

For bigger appetites, serve the bake with warmed sourdough or ciabatta to soak up all the delicious juices. 

Nutritional

Typical values per serving when made using specific products in recipe

Energy

2,381kJ/ 570kcals

Fat

26g

Saturated Fat

6.6g

Carbohydrates

28g

Sugars

11g

Fibre

13g

Protein

49g

Salt

0.6g

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