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Chicken-Lima Dinner (Reduced Fat)

Type: Chicken, Poultry
Serves: 6 people

Recipe Ingredients

3 lbs 1362g / 48ozChicken pieces - skinless
1 tablespoon 15mlVegetable oil
1 cup 160g / 5.6ozLong-grain white rice - dry measure
2 tablespoons 30mlDiet margarine
1 cup 62g / 2.2ozChopped onion
1 tablespoon 15mlChopped parsley
1 teaspoon 5mlDried marjoram
3 cups 711mlFat-free chicken broth - low salt
10 oz 284gLima beans - frozen
1 teaspoon 5mlSalt - optional

Recipe Instructions

Heat pressure cooker. Add oil and swirl to coat bottom; brown chicken. Remove chicken. Combine remaining ingredients in pressure cooker. Place chicken in pot. Close cover securely. Seat the regulator on vent pipe. COOK 15 MINS. Cool cooker at once. Serves 4 to 8.

Tips - When halving recipe, use 3/4 cups rice, 1-3/4 cups broth, and 10 ounce package limas * Use limas frozen not a block of ice.

Varations: * After browning chicken and removing from pan, add 1 teaspoon pale sherry. Then add other ingredients. * Forget salt and add soy sauce to taste. * Forget salt and add Maggi (tm) to taste. * Substitute thyme for the marjoram or use in combination. * Add lemon peel. * Remove skin from chicken pieces.

Serve with Wilted Lettuce Salad with garlicky croutons. Fruit compote or pudding cup. Or Cranberry Sauce with a Waldorf salad (apples and walnuts).

Source:
Pat Phillips (1974) Pressure Cooking Is Pleasure Cooking

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