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Carol's Arroz Con Pollo
Recipe by:
Carol Alter
A Mexican-inspired quick chicken dish that is great for a midweek supper. An added bonus: it's a one-pot meal, so less washing up!
Ready in 50 mins
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Ingredients
Serves: 4
- 4 skinless, boneless chicken breast fillets
- salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika, divided
- 3 tablespoons vegetable oil
- 1 green pepper, chopped
- 1 onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 200g (7 oz) long grain white rice
- 400g (14 oz) chicken stock
- 110ml (4 fl oz) white wine
- pinch saffron
- 1 (400g) tin tomatoes
- 1 handful chopped fresh parsley
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Preparation method
Prep: 15 mins | Cook: 35 mins1.
Cut each chicken breast into cubes. Sprinkle chicken with salt and pepper to taste, and 1/4 teaspoon paprika.
2.
Heat oil in a large frying pan over medium heat. Add chicken, and cook until golden. Remove chicken, and set aside.
3.
Add green pepper, onion and garlic to oil in frying pan. Cook for 5 minutes. Add rice; cook and stir until rice is opaque, 1 to 2 minutes. Stir in stock, white wine, saffron, and tomatoes. Stir in remaining paprika, and salt and pepper to taste. Return to a boil. Cover, and simmer for 20 minutes.
4.
Return chicken to the frying pan to reheat. Stir in parsley.
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Last updated:
10 May 2013
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Easy
Lovely recipe very easy to make and you can use up your left over ingredients in your fridge. Swapped the pepper for sweetcorn and the kids ate every scrap.
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12 Jun 2012
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I used red wine instead of white, it was very tasty!
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06 May 2011
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absolutely beautiful, it's so tasty! it's great as a quick snack or as a main meal! I use it as a one pot dish and use red wine unread of White, it just gives it a little more flavour
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06 May 2011
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I cooked this for my husband and sister in law and we all enjoyed this. I put dried oragano in instead of basil which worked well. Will certainly cook it again. Thank you.
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05 Apr 2011
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I added some chopped chorizo to mine & it was lovely.
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18 Mar 2011
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This is a really nice dish. I just kept adding the ingredients as I went {as another reviewer mentioned}. Had it for family tea & everyone really enjoyed it.
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18 Mar 2011
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This was great! My boyfriend had this dinner in the states, and he said that this recipe was better than the one in the restuarant! I did tweak it though. I substituted the green pepper with yellow and red pepper. I added mushrooms and some cumin. I didn't have paprika, so I put in black and red pepper flakes instead. Yum!
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15 Jan 2009
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This was great!! I omitted the tomatoes and I used bone-in chicken breasts, so I had to cook the chicken a little longer. Also, I cut down the oil to 1 tablespoon to reduce the fat. Wasn't even missed! The second time I used boneless chicken breasts (big time saver), and olive oil instead of vegetable oil - noticeable difference in the flavour!! Will do that again. Thanks for the recipe!
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18 Jul 2008
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KRANEY
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Thanks Carol, great recipe! The first time I made this, I felt the white wine and green pepper overwhelmed the other flavours. The second time I cut the white wine in half and omitted the green peppers. The third time I made it, I omitted the wine, the green peppers, and added some grated cheddar cheese. Wonderful! No leftovers on the third try.
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18 Jul 2008
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MAGGIE MCGUIRE
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This was really simple and good. One suggestion I have is to warm up the chicken stock separately and allow the saffron threads to soften so the flavour is better distrubuted. I would add a squeeze of fresh lime next time!
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18 Jul 2008
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