Easy Spanish chicken

Name: Easy Spanish chicken
Prep time: 30 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 1 h
Cuisine: Spanish
Ingredients: 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 2 small boneless, skinless chicken breasts (each about 150g/5½oz), sliced; 1 onion, thinly sliced; 1 yellow pepper, seeds removed, cut into 4cm/1½in pieces; 1 courgette, trimmed, halved lengthways and cut into 1cm/½in slices; 100g/3½oz cooking chorizo, sliced; 100ml/3½fl oz red wine; 400g tin chopped tomatoes; 400g tin butter beans, drained and rinsed; 1 tbsp tomato purée; 1 tsp dried oregano; ½ tsp dried chilli flakes; 1 chicken stock cube; 160g/5¾oz long-grain rice; 175g/6oz green beans, trimmed (optional); chopped fresh flatleaf parsley, to garnish; sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

Prep:30minCook:30min

Healthy chicken breasts and butter beans get a flavour boost from a little bit of cooking chorizo and red wine. Green beans are an excellent side for Spanish chicken, but you can also use broccoli, green cabbage or kale. With a GI of 58 this meal is high protein, low GI. Each serving (without rice) provides 352 kcal, 13g protein, 18.5g carbohydrates (of which 10.5g sugars), 13g fat (of which 4g saturates), 9g fibre and 1.7g salt.

Updated at: Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:39:14 GMT