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Chicken pizza on polenta base

  • Time to make: 35 mins
  • Serving: 4 people
Ratings: 5.0
Ingredients

Ingredients

  • Topping
  • ½ tablespoon oil
  • ½ onion, finely chopped
  • 1 ½ skinless chicken breasts (600g), diced
  • 1 carrot, peeled, sliced
  • 3 medium mushrooms, sliced
  • ½ teaspoon mixed dried herbs
  • 1 cup chicken stock (make with 1 ½ teaspoons stock powder)
  • ½ x 400g can chopped tomatoes
  • 1 teaspoon sugar
  • 1 tablespoon flour
  • 1 tablespoon tomato paste
  • 1 tablespoon cornflour
  • ¼ cup olives
  • Polenta base
  • 4 cups water
  • 1 ½ cups instant polenta
  • ¼ cup parmesan cheese
  • Always check food labels for allergens or trace warnings before buying your ingredients.
    Ingredients

    Instructions

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    1 Heat oil in a non-stick casserole dish or large pan and cook onion until softened. Add chicken and cook over a high heat until it has lost its pink colour.

    2 Add carrots, mushrooms, mixed herbs, stock, tomatoes, sugar, flour and paste and bring to the boil. Reduce heat then cover and simmer for 35 minutes.

    3 Mix a little of the cooked sauce with cornflour to form a paste. Add to the casserole and stir until thickened. Add olives.

    4 To make polenta base, bring water to the boil. Reduce heat to low and add polenta. Stir for 4-5 minutes until thickened. Stir in parmesan cheese.

    5 Spread onto a lightly greased pan and form into a 24cm round. Cook in a preheated oven at 190°C for 10 minutes.

    6 Add pizza topping and cook for a further 10 minutes. Serve garnished with fresh basil or flat-leaf parsley.

    Variations

    The base of this recipe is Simple chicken casserole which, with only a few simple tweaks, can also be transformed into these delicious meals:

    Potato-topped chicken pie
    Spicy chicken with chickpeas

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