Chicken with pumpkins seeds and peanut butter (slow cooker recipe)
Chicken with pumpkins seeds and peanut butter (slow cooker recipe) | |
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Best recipe reviewVery different 4/5 ..and very nice too The Judge |
Served with yellow rice, peas and sweetcornc | |
Servings: | Serves 4 |
Calories per serving: | 606 |
Ready in: | 55 minutes |
Prep. time: | 20 minutes |
Cook time: | 35 minutes |
Difficulty: | |
Recipe author: | Chef |
First published: | 14th April 2014 |
A nice Tex-Mex twist on a simple chicken stew. If you can obtain tomatillos, then do use them instead of tomatoes.
Ingredients
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- 500 g of skinless chicken breasts (about 3 or 4 depending upon the size), chopped into bite-sized chunks
- 150 g pumpkin seeds
- 400 g can of chopped tomatoes
- 2 hot red chillies or to taste
- 250 ml chicken stock
- 50g Home smoked bacon, lardons, streaky bacon etc. [chopped]
- 3 cloves of Garlic, peeled
- 1 medium onion, quartered
- 1 teaspoon of cumin seeds, crushed
- 1 teaspoon of turmeric powder
- 1 large stick of cinnamon
- Olive oil for frying
- 150 g peanut butter (2 huge tablespoons)
- sea salt and freshly ground black pepper
to serve
- 4 spring onions, finely chopped
- A big handful of fresh parsley, chopped
- 1 hard-boiled egg, chopped
Method
- Dry-fry the pumpkin seeds until they start to pop, turn them often
- Add them to a food processor with a metal blade and grind them finely
- Add the tomatoes, quartered onion, peeled garlic, chillies, cumin seeds and turmeric powder and blend to a paste
- Finally add the peanut butter and the chicken stock
- Meanwhile, heat the oil in a frying pan, add the lardons and the chicken pieces and fry until the oil is released from the lardons and the chicken is browned
- Add the blended sauce to the slow cooker, cover and cook for 2.5 hours on medium
- Taste and season with black pepper and salt.
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The basic ingredients
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The liquidised sauce before cooking
Serving suggestions
Serve with rice, sprinkled with chopped spring onions, chopped egg and parsley
Variations
Try this with pork tenderloin fillets instead of chicken. Cut them into thin medallions and smash them flat before cooking.
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