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Baked lemon and sesame chicken

  • Hands-on time: 10 mins
  • Time to make: 1 hr 20 mins
  • Serving: 6 people (4 dinners + 2 lunches)
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • 600g orange kumara, peeled, chopped in thin rounds
    • 2 cups new potatoes, washed, cubed
    • 5 carrots, peeled, cut in batons
    • 2 ½ cups peas
    • 600g lean chicken, cut in chunks
    • 2 tablespoons sesame seeds
    • 1 lemon, cut in 6 segments
    • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Heat oven to 180°C. Layer kumara, potatoes and carrots in the base of a large ovenproof dish. Add peas and chicken. Sprinkle with sesame seeds and squeeze juice of half of the lemon segments on top of the chicken. Add the remaining lemon segments to the dish.

    2 Cover tightly with tinfoil and bake for 1 hour or until vegetables are tender and chicken is cooked through. Remove tinfoil, drizzle with oil and return to oven for 10 minutes to brown a little.

    Note: Nutrition information, time to make and costings apply to main dinner recipe only.

    Variations

    Leftovers to lunch: Chicken salad

    Serves 2

    4 tablespoons low-fat plain yoghurt
    1/2 lemon, zest and juice
    2 cups mesclun salad mix
    2 serves leftover Baked lemon and sesame chicken

    Combine yoghurt, lemon zest and lemon juice to make a light dressing. Mix with salad and leftover chicken.

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