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Chicken with spinach in a cream sauce

This recipe combines morsels of cooked chicken, spinach and potatoes with cream for a simple and tasty dish.

27K 9 4.1

Last modified on: July 3^rd 2019

Keywords for this recipe:Chicken Spinach Cream Potatoes

For 4 people, you will need:

1 1 spring onion (scallion)
2 300 g cooked spinach
3 300 g cooked potato
4 2 tablespoons oil
5 250 g chicken
6 250 ml liquid cream
7 salt
8 pepper
Total weight: 1,255 grams

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Preparation	Cooking	Start to finish
15 min.	21 min.	36 min.

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Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 5 min.

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Peel 1 spring onion (scallion), separate the green part from the white and chop each of these separately.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

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Prepare 300 g cooked spinach and 300 g cooked potato, if not already done. Slice the potatoes.

Stage 3 - 10 min.

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Pour 2 tablespoons oil into a frying pan on medium heat. When good and hot, add the sliced potatoes.

Fry until lightly browned on both sides.

Stage 4 - 1 min.

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Then add the white part of the onion, salt and pepper. Cook for 1 minute.

Stage 5 - 1 min.

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Add the cooked 250 g chicken, cut into small pieces...

Stage 6 - 1 min.

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...the spinach...

Stage 7 - 1 min.

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...and finally 250 ml liquid cream, salt and pepper.

Stage 8 - 10 min.

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Leave uncovered on low heat to thicken as required.

Stage 9 - 2 min.

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Checking the seasoning, add the green part of the onion, mix well and serve.

Remarks

This is an ideal way to use up chicken leftovers,, such as from five hours poultry.

Keeping

A day or two in the fridge, covered with plastic film.

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,698 Kcal or 7,109 Kj	74 gr	87 gr	129 gr
85 %	28 %	8 %	20 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
135 Kcal or 565 Kj	6 gr	7 gr	10 gr
7 %	2 %	1 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
424 Kcal or 1,775 Kj	18 gr	22 gr	32 gr
21 %	7 %	2 %	5 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

How much will it cost?

For 4 people : 3.77 €
Per person : 0.94 €

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Source

Home made.

This recipe uses (among others)

	Cooked potato: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Thin spinach and potato tart, Gratin of purple artichokes, Crispy potato and mushroom brik rolls, Seb's Italian-style aperitif slices, Lemony cabbage and potato salad, ... All
	Cooked spinach: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spinach and Comté Loaf, Scrambled eggs with butter-fried bread and fresh spinach, Spinach on toast with bechamel, Spinach Mornay, Thin spinach and potato tart, ... All
	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Rice and peas, Vanilla ice cream, Cauliflower and chickpea purée, Parisian-style chocolate custard tart, Little vanilla, clementine and chestnut verrines, ... All
	Chicken: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Tandoori-flavoured chicken with leeks, Sautéed chicken with leeks, Chicken and mushroom pie, Chicken and mushroom brik rolls, Duck Parmentier, ... All

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