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Friday 25 June 2010

Weekend Recipe Blog Hop - Chicken and Spinach Rice Pot

I'm feeling adventurous and decided to start a Weekend Recipes blog hop! I am someone who only cooks on the weekend, or on my days off... so it's a perfect idea for this type of thing.


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Ingredients

2 tbsp (25 mL) butter
1 onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (about 12 oz/375 g total), cut into bite-size pieces
2 tsp (10 mL) minced fresh ginger or ½ tsp (2 mL) dried ground
2 tsp (10 mL) curry powder
3/4 cup (175 mL) basmati rice
2 cups (500 mL) 5% light or 10% half-and-half cream
1 cup (250 mL) water
4 cups (1 L) lightly packed chopped spinach
Salt

Directions
1. In a large deep pot, melt butter over medium heat. Add onion and garlic; sauté for 3 min or until onions are softened. Add chicken, ginger and curry powder and cook stirring often, for 3 min or until chicken is lightly browned. Add rice and stir to coat.

2. Add cream and water and increase heat to medium-high and bring to a boil, stirring occasionally. Stir in spinach. Cover and reduce heat to low; simmer for about 10 min or until rice is tender and chicken is no longer pink inside. Season to taste with salt. Remove from heat and let stand 5 min before serving.

Cooking Tips: Rice mixture should be slightly runny to spoon out into shallow soup bowls.

For a burst of fresh flavour, garnish with chopped fresh coriander.

Recipe courtesy of Dairy Farmers of Canada

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