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Harissa chicken & chickpea traybake
One tin, forty minutes: smoky harissa chicken thighs over chickpeas and peppers with a lemon yogurt drizzle.
Ingredients
Servings 4
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Method
- Step 1
Heat the oven to 200C fan. Toss the chicken with harissa and half the oil.
- Step 2
Tip the chickpeas, peppers and onion into a large roasting tin, toss with the remaining oil and cumin, and sit the chicken on top.
- Step 3
Roast for 35 minutes until the chicken is cooked through and the edges of the chickpeas are crisp.
- Step 4
Squeeze over half the lemon and rest for 5 minutes.
- Step 5
Mix the yogurt with the remaining lemon juice and a pinch of salt; drizzle over and scatter with coriander.
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Nutrition per serving
| Calories | 485 kcal |
|---|---|
| Protein | 34g |
| Carbohydrates | 32g |
| – of which sugars | 8g |
| Fibre | 9g |
| Fat | 22g |
| – of which saturates | 5g |
| – of which omega-3 | 0.3g |
| Calcium | 120mg |
| Iron | 4.2mg |
| Salt | 1.1g |
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