Mexican chicken stew with toasted corn salsa recipe
This Mexican stew – well-stocked with tender chicken and kidney beans – is the perfect dinner when you're after a bit of spice. Served with a toasted corn salsa, it's a dish with a wonderful depth of flavour.
See method- Serves 4
- 10 mins to prepare and 30 mins to cook
- 330 calories / serving
- Dairy-free
- Healthy
Ingredients
- 1½ tbsp olive oil
- 1 x 431g pack chicken fillets, roughly chopped
- 1 onion, sliced
- 1 red pepper, chopped
- 1 garlic clove, chopped
- 1tsp tomato purée
- 1tsp mild chilli powder
- ½tsp ground cumin
- 400g tin chopped tomatoes
- 1 x 400g tin kidney beans
- 75g (3oz) frozen sweetcorn
- 1 small avocado, peeled and chopped
- 2 spring onions, sliced
- ½ lime, zested and juiced
- handful coriander, chopped
Each serving contains
- Energy
- 1380kJ 330.0kcal
- Fat
- 11g
- Saturates
- 2g
- Salt
- 1.0g
- Sugars
- 12g
of the Reference intake
Carbohydrate 25.5gProtein 33.4gFibre 9.2g
Method
- Heat ½ tbsp oil in a pan. Cook the chicken for a few minutes until lightly browned. Remove from the pan. Heat another ½ tbsp oil and fry the onion for 3 minutes. Stir in the pepper and cook for 2 minutes until soft. Stir in the garlic and tomato purée. Sprinkle over the spices and stir, then add the tomatoes and beans. Simmer for 10 minutes. Add the chicken and cook for 10 minutes. Cut into a thick portion and check that it is cooked through, with no pink showing.
- Heat the remaining oil in a small frying pan. Cook the sweetcorn for a couple of minutes until lightly browned. Spoon the chicken into bowls. Scatter over the toasted corn, avocado and spring onions. Sprinkle over the lime zest, juice and coriander to serve.
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