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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.

25K 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 ml cooked spinach
3 300 ml cooked potato
4 2 tablespoons oil
5 250 ml chicken
6 250 ml liquid cream
7 salt
8 pepper

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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 ml cooked spinach and 300 ml 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 ml 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 spinach: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Parcels of fish fillet in spinach, Crispy spinach rolls, Spinach on toast with bechamel, Spinach Omelette, Pan-fried cheese, egg and spinach toastie, ... All
	Cooked potato: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Comtois surprise bread, Stuffed mushrooms au gratin, Salad paysanne, Green Piedmont Salad, Polish-style beetroot salad, ... All
	Chicken: You can check-out other recipes which use it, like for example: Duck Parmentier, Chicken and mushroom brik rolls, Tandoori-flavoured chicken with leeks, Chicken with rice and leeks, Chicken and mushroom pie, ... All
	Liquid cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Baked eggs with chicken and spinach, Little vanilla, clementine and chestnut verrines, Leek fondue, Spicy mustard cauliflower cheese, Asparagus "en petit pois", ... All

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