Best Chicken With Green Lentils Recipes

CHICKEN AND LENTILS

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This recipe is an unusual dish that all the family loves and is requested by all from the smallest to the adults. Don't let the 'lentil' ingredient scare you. It is absolutely delicious and very nutritious. It is the dish most often requested in our home. The recipe directions look complicated, but are very simple.

Provided by Lorraine Friberg

Categories Meat and Poultry Recipes Chicken

Time 1h30m

Yield 6

Number Of Ingredients 12

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil
2 pounds bone-in chicken pieces
1 large onion, finely chopped
1 small carrot, finely chopped
2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
¾ cup dried lentils
1 (14 ounce) can chicken broth
½ teaspoon salt
1 (10 ounce) can tomato sauce
½ teaspoon dried rosemary
½ teaspoon dried basil
1 tablespoon lemon juice

Steps:

Heat the oil in a skillet over medium heat, and cook the chicken pieces 5 minutes on each side, or until juices run clear. Remove chicken from skillet, and set aside.
Place onion in the skillet, and cook 5 minutes, until tender. Mix in the carrot and garlic. Stir in the lentils and broth, and season with salt. Bring to a boil, cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer 20 minutes.
Return chicken to skillet. Cover, and continue cooking 20 minutes. If the mixture becomes too dry, add a little water to just moisten.
Stir tomato sauce into the skillet. Season with rosemary and basil. Continue cooking 10 minutes, or until lentils are tender. Stir in lemon juice, and serve warm.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 308.3 calories, Carbohydrate 18.7 g, Cholesterol 68.1 mg, Fat 13.5 g, Fiber 6.2 g, Protein 27.8 g, SaturatedFat 3.4 g, Sodium 816.5 mg, Sugar 4.8 g

CHICKEN WITH GREEN LENTILS

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If you read through my recipes you will find a number of recipes using lentils. Over the past year or so of eating a healthier diet I have come to know and enjoy lentils a great deal. So, when I see a new recipe involving lentils I like to add it to my collection. This one I found in the Winter 2008 version of the BBC Easy Cook magazine. The recipe says that it is able to be frozen.

Provided by Sarah_Jayne

Categories Chicken Thigh & Leg

Time 45m

Yield 2 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 12

Ingredients

2 slices bacon, chopped
1 teaspoon vegetable oil
2 large skinless chicken thighs, skin removed
1 medium onion, sliced
1 garlic clove, sliced
2 teaspoons flour
2 teaspoons tomato paste
5 fluid ounces dry white wine
6 2/3 fluid ounces chicken stock
1 2/3 ounces green lentils
1/2 teaspoon dried thyme
3 ounces brown button mushrooms, halved

Steps:

Fry the bacon quickly in the oil, then lift onto a plate.
Add the chicken and brown on each side. Set aside with the bacon.
Tip the onion and garlic into the pan and cook for 5 minutes.
Stir in the flour and tomato paste, then stir over a low heat for 3 minutes.
Add the wine, stock, lentils and thyme.
Bring to the boil, reduce the heat, cover and simmer for 5 minutes.
Stir in the mushrooms, bacon and chicken.
Cover and simmer for 25 minutes, until the lentils are tender and the chicken cooked.
Season and serve.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 454.1, Fat 17.4, SaturatedFat 4.9, Cholesterol 87.2, Sodium 455.6, Carbohydrate 30.8, Fiber 9, Sugar 6.5, Protein 30.2

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