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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.

38K 10 4.2

Last modified on: July 3^rd 2019

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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
1,688 Kcal or 7,067 Kj	75 gr	87 gr	129 gr
84 %	29 %	8 %	20 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
134 Kcal or 561 Kj	6 gr	7 gr	10 gr
7 %	2 %	1 %	2 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
422 Kcal or 1,767 Kj	19 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).

Possible allergens in this recipe: Milk

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 spinach: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Spinach and Comté Loaf, Baked eggs with chicken and spinach, Gratin-style spinach and chicken omelette , Spinach on toast with bechamel, Spinach and chick peas "à la milanaise", ... All
	Cooked potato: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Crispy potato and mushroom brik rolls, Röstis, Comtois surprise bread, Creamy spinach and potato gratin, Artichokes with beef, ... All
	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Pan-baked hash brown (Hash-brown casserole), Lemon and lime cakes, Pan-fried scallops and chanterelles with Noilly Prat sauce, Chestnut cake, Apple custard tart, ... All
	Chicken: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Chicken and mushroom brik rolls, Sautéed chicken with leeks, Tandoori-flavoured chicken with leeks, Duck Parmentier, Chicken and mushroom pie, ... All

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