Chicken-Lima Dinner (Reduced Fat) Recipe - Cooking Index
3 lbs | 1362g / 48oz | Chicken pieces - skinless |
1 tablespoon | 15ml | Vegetable oil |
1 cup | 160g / 5.6oz | Long-grain white rice - dry measure |
2 tablespoons | 30ml | Diet margarine |
1 cup | 62g / 2.2oz | Chopped onion |
1 tablespoon | 15ml | Chopped parsley |
1 teaspoon | 5ml | Dried marjoram |
3 cups | 711ml | Fat-free chicken broth - low salt |
10 oz | 284g | Lima beans - frozen |
1 teaspoon | 5ml | Salt - optional |
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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