Better sleep Roast chicken legs with braised little gems & peas
Roast chicken legs over French-style braised lettuce, peas and bacon-optional broth.
Lemony chickpea, spinach & rice soup
A hug of a soup: chickpeas, rice and spinach in lemony broth, avgolemono-adjacent.
Ingredients
Servings 4
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Method
- Step 1
Soften the onion; add garlic and cumin for 1 minute.
- Step 2
Add rice and stock; simmer 12 minutes.
- Step 3
Add chickpeas and spinach for 3 minutes.
- Step 4
Whisk eggs with lemon; temper with hot broth, then stir back in off the heat until silky.
- Step 5
Season and finish with dill.
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Nutrition per serving
| Calories | 380 kcal |
|---|---|
| Protein | 18g |
| Carbohydrates | 50g |
| – of which sugars | 5g |
| Fibre | 9g |
| Fat | 12g |
| – of which saturates | 2g |
| – of which omega-3 | 0.3g |
| Calcium | 150mg |
| Iron | 4.8mg |
| Salt | 1g |
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