Skillet Chicken Paella (Diabetic) from Healthy Diabetic Recipes

Skillet Chicken Paella (Diabetic) Recipe

Recipe Ingredients:

24 oz chicken breast, cut into 1" pieces
1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped
1 clove garlic, minced
2 1/4 cups chicken broth fat free
1 cup parboiled rice
1 tsp oregano, dried, crushed
1/2 tsp paprika
1/4 tsp Salt, optional
1/4 tsp Pepper
1/8 tsp saffron, ground, or turmeric
1 3/4 cups tomatoes, stewed
1 medium sweet red pepper, cut in strips
3/4 cup frozen peas

Recipe Instructions:

Remove skin from chicken breast. Rinse and pat dry with paper towels.
Cut into bite-sized strips. In a 10 inch skillet cook chicken strips,
HALF at a time, in hot oil for 2 to 3 minutes or till no longer pink.
Remove chicken from skillet.

Add onion and garlic to skillet; cook till tender but not brown. Remove
skillet from heat. Add broth, uncooked rice, oregano, paprika, salt,
pepper and saffron or turmeric. Bring to boiling. Reduce heat. Simmer,
covered, about 15 minutes.

Coarsely chop stewed tomatoes and add with their juice to the pan. Add
sweet red pepper which has been cut into strips and frozen peas.

Cover and simmer about 5 minutes more or until rice is tender.
Stir in cooked chicken. Cook and stir about 1 minute more or till
heated through.

Makes 6 main-dish servings.

Servings: 6

When the waitress puts the dinner on the table the old men look at the dinner. The young men look at the waitress

~ Gelett Burgess, 'Look Eleven Years Younger' (1937).

 

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