A tangy balsamic chicken and vegetables with delicious roasted butternut squash rice for a complete meal for the whole family.
Slimming Eats Recipe
Serves 3
Ingredients
2 chicken breasts chopped into bite size pieces
1 red onion, halved and thinly sliced
1 red pepper sliced, roughly chopped
1 yellow pepper, roughly chopped
1 cup of cherry tomatoes, chopped
2 cloves of garlic, chopped
¾ cup of brown (wholegrain) rice
half a butternut squash, peeled and roughly chopped
2 tablespoons of balsamic vinegar
3 tablespoons of tomato puree
200ml of beef stock
paprika
fresh basil and parsley
Frylight or Pam spray
Method
Preheat oven to 200c or 400f
Get your Balsamic vinegar, paprika, stock and tomato puree ready to cook with.
Place the chopped butternut squash in a roasting tin, spray with frylight or Pam spray and a sprinkling of paprika, and toss to coat.
Place in the oven and roast until caramelised and softened.
Add your ¾ cup of rice to a saucepan filled with 2 cups of boiling hot water
Bring to a boil, then reduce heat right down, cover and simmer until water is almost absorbed.
Prepare all your chicken and veggies, so they are ready to start cooking with.
Spray a frying pan with Frylight or Pam spray, add the chicken, a little black pepper and cook until it starts to go golden.
Remove from pan and set aside.
Add the onion, garlic to the pan and a little of the chicken stock and fry until they start to go golden.
Add the peppers and tomatoes to the pan and cook for a further few minutes.
Return the chicken to the pan with the vegetables, and add the remaining stock, tomato puree and balsamic vinegar and stir to evenly coat. Add the freshly chopped basil and season as required with salt and pepper.
Reduce heat and simmer for about 20 mins, until chicken is cooked through and sauce has thickened.
When you rice has just about absorbed all water and looks like this.
Leave covered with lid, but turn off heat, the steam will continue to cook the rice.
Once your butternut squash is ready. You can add the rice to the oven dish and mix all together.
Add your Balsamic Chicken and Tomatoes to a serving dish and top with some freshly chopped Italian parsley.
Serve alongside your roasted butternut squash brown rice among 3 plates and enjoy!!
LaQuita @Everydaymoms says
This looks good too! Wow, we might have to plan a moms night at your house to try some of your cooking! LOL....
This is something simple and seems easy enough for me to make. Will be printing out this recipe and adding it to my recipe book! =)
admin says
haha we should do a taster night thingy, bit like the cookies night. All make something and bring it round to try. 🙂
Caitlin says
Tried this tonight and it was utterly delicious. As have been all your recipes I've tried. Thank you so much. You're making sticking to the SW plan a complete pleasure for me!
admin says
I put this dish together really quickly one evening, as I was later cooking dinner, it turned out well. I am glad you enjoyed it. 🙂
Susan. says
Just making this the now 🙂 added some chilli and paprkia to the chicken to spice it up a bit. Loving it so far, just waiting on the rice! I'm hungry!
Clare says
I've just made this and it was gorgeous!! Hubby even asked if I'd cheated and bought a takeaway lol!!!
Claire says
Ive just made and eaten this wonderful dish~even the kids cleared all their plates too, its definately a dish I will make again 🙂
Christy says
This was my very first "Britmum" recipe that I made and now after trying several others, I think this is probably my favourite up to date (I have to try loads more), its quick and easy, you feel your actually eating healthy, the Butternut squash is so good with rice, I never had or thought of this before! as I am a Balsamic Vinegar FAN, for me, my other half and my 3 year old big thumbs up again! 😀
Thank you!
Christy
Anonymous says
Just found your fantastic website, and made this last night, absolutely delicious! I too added chilli, and will definitely make this again! Looking forward to trying many more of your recipes - thank you so much!
Anonymous says
Just found your website - fantastic! Made this recipe last night. I too added some chilli, and it was absolutely delicious! I will definitely be making this again!!! Looking forward to trying many more of your delicious recipes! Thank you so much
Jog On says
We had this for tea last night and it was really scrummy. I don't do Extra Easy, so we had the chicken with salad and it went really well. Might make with quorn soon and do the rice, as suggested. Thanks so much! 🙂
Nicky Turner-Sterling says
Awesome lovely recipe!
Melanie Williams says
Ive made this in the past and it is stunning bon appetite x
Lisa Livingstone says
Made this today and it was amazing !!
Holly Siobhan Francis says
Absolutely GORGEOUS !!! Although I made with slightly richer stock and prob double the balsamic vinegar !! Added mushrooms too was delicious!!! Thank you!
Charlotte says
I made this tonight & it was delicious! I used half a can of chopped tomatoes as I didn't have any cherry tomatoes.