Chicken and Lentils

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Nutritional Info
  • Servings Per Recipe: 6
  • Amount Per Serving
  • Calories: 366.0
  • Total Fat: 5.5 g
  • Cholesterol: 131.5 mg
  • Sodium: 152.6 mg
  • Total Carbs: 17.9 g
  • Dietary Fiber: 6.2 g
  • Protein: 59.1 g

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Introduction

From Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything. You'll notice above in nutritional info that I listed 2 cups lentils and below in ingredients it's 1 cup. That's because sparkpeople's nutrtional info for lentils is specifically for cooked (although they annoyingly don't say that...you discover it by cross-checking them). 1 cup dry lentils makes 2 cups cooked. Voila. From Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything. You'll notice above in nutritional info that I listed 2 cups lentils and below in ingredients it's 1 cup. That's because sparkpeople's nutrtional info for lentils is specifically for cooked (although they annoyingly don't say that...you discover it by cross-checking them). 1 cup dry lentils makes 2 cups cooked. Voila.
Number of Servings: 6

Ingredients

    1 Tb olive oil
    3 lbs white meat chicken (cut into 6 pieces)
    1 large onion, sliced
    1 Tb chopped garlic
    1 Tb chopped or grated ginger
    1 cup chopped tomato
    1 tsp ground coriander
    salt and pepper
    1 large bunch cilantro or parsley sprigs, tied together with string
    two 3-inch cinnamon sticks
    1 cup dried brown or green lentils, washed and picked over

Directions

Heat oil in a skillet on med. heat, and briefly cook onions, garlic, ginger, tomato, coriander and salt and pepper. Pour in 4 cups of water, and add the rest of the ingredients, except for chicken. Cover and simmer for 30 minutes, until lentils are almost done.

Discard the herb bundle and cinnamon sticks and return the chicken to the pan. Cover and let simmer gently until the chicken is cooked through, another 10-20 minutes. If you want to be sure, make sure that thickest part of the chicken reads 155-165 on a thermometer. Taste the seasonings and serve.

You can also substitute chickpeas for the lentils.

Number of Servings: 6

Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user TEJOLOTE.