healthy pot chicken (Healthy Recipes)

Member Name: memelalou

Product:	Healthy Recipes
Date:	12/03/09 (79 review reads)
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Advantages: one pot healthy dish

Disadvantages: if your a vegetarian or vegan

Chicken pot roast

A hearty but healthy stew

One whole chicken - giblets removed
4 large carrots
2 sticks celery
2 red onions
200g baby button mushrooms
1 pint chicken or vegetable stock
2 tins chopped tomatoes
2 teaspoons whole grain mustard
Salt
Pepper
Parsley
Oil

* Peel and chop your carrots into 'batons'.
* Dice the celery into small pieces.
* Peel and slice the onion into 'rings'.
* You need a large oven proof dish {big enough to easily hold a chicken} with a lid. Place the dish on the hob on a high heat and heat up a little oil before adding the carrots, celery, onion and mushrooms to the dish and gently frying for three or so minutes.
* Place the whole chicken on top of the vegetables in the pot.
* Season with salt and pepper to taste.
* Open the tins of chopped tomatoes and pour over the chicken.
* Dissolve the whole grain mustard into hot chicken or vegetable stock.
* Pour the stock over the chicken until it's covered, and put the lid on the dish.
* Preheat the oven to 180oc and cook the chicken in the oven for 2 hours and 30-45 minutes.
* Chop some parsley and stir into the sauce before serving.

Don't worry if the chicken does not brown - as it's not supposed to.
To serve remove the chicken from the pot. Slice the breast and take of the legs and wings to plate up. Serve the sauce and vegetables on the side of the chicken.

Tip
If you want to make sure you get your five a day. Instead of using a pre made stock cube or spending ages to make your own vegetable stock. Juice using an electric juicer, onions, carrot and celery or any hard vegetables to make a pure juice add water, salt and pepper to make a more nutritious and tasty stock.

Summary: enjoy