Jerked Chicken, Lentil and Mixed Bean Pilaf with Sauteed Kale
Someone posted something similar in /r/fitmeals, I had amazing jerk sauce I got at the ex, a chicken leg and I hadn’t done anything with lentils in a while. Oh also if you wanna go flavour crazy, marinade the chicken in a jerk marinade over night, then bake it with a sauce.
Jerked Chicken, Lentil and Mixed Bean Pilaf with Sauteed Kale
Someone posted something similar in /r/fitmeals, I had amazing jerk sauce I got at the ex, a chicken leg and I hadn’t done anything with lentils in a while. Oh also if you wanna go flavour crazy, marinade the chicken in a jerk marinade over night, then bake it with a sauce.
Servings: 1 serving
Ingredients
- 1 chicken leg
- 1/2 u2013 3/4 cups jerk sauce
- Bunch kale , stems removed
- 3 tbsps butter /
- 2 tbsps cumin seeds or powder
- 4 tbsps chopped garlic
- 1 1/2 tbsps paprika smoked
- 540 ml lentils cans
- 1/2 540 ml beans mixed cans
- salt and pepper and
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 400F
- Put the chicken leg skin side up in a baking dish and coat with jerk sauce. Bake for 35-40 minutes.
- Put lentils and beans in a pot, just barely cover with water.
- Bring lentils to a boil then add boullion and stir to break apart
- Add 1.5 tbsp butter, cumin seeds, 2 tbsp garlic to a frying pan, sautee until seeds are fragant, but donu2019t burn the garlic (3 mins or so), dump it all into the lentils
- Add paprika, salt and pepper to the lentils then bring heat down to a simmer. Let simmer, stirring occasionally until liquid is almost gone.
- In a large pan sautee kale in the rest of the butter and garlic until it shrinks by about half.
- Add salad to a medium salad bowl and toss with dressing.
- Mix together salad and lentils NOTE: only use as much salad as you need for the current portions, itu2019ll get nasty if left with the lentils in the fridge. ratio is about 1:1 salad to lentils.
