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Garlicky chicken, bacon & leek orzo traybake
Let your oven do the hard work with this lazy traybake for fans of big flavour! Chicken, bacon, leek, courgette and garlic bake in a easy-peasy stock with a squeeze of every cook's kitchen mate – Marmite! Orzo lightly boils in the meantime, ready to grab every tasty drop!
SWK: High protein
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Serving size
Ingredients
- 1 leek
- 1 courgette
- 2 garlic clove
- 300g diced chicken breast
- 50g smoked bacon (pork, water, salt, brown sugar, dextrose powder, sodium ascorbate, potassium nitrate, sodium nitrite)
- 160g SW Orzo (Wheat) (88% Durum WHEAT Semolina, 12% Water)
- 8g Marmite (Barley, Celery, Oats, Rye, Wheat) (Yeast extract (contains BARLEY, WHEAT, OATS, RYE), salt, vegetable juice concentrate, vitamins (thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B12 and folic acid), natural flavouring (contains CELERY).)
- 1 tbsp apple cider vinegar (apple cider vinegar (100%))
- 2 tbsp garlic, basil & parsley paste (Garlic, Basil, Parsley, Sea Salt, Citric Acid.)
- 1 chicken stock cube (use half) (Celery) (sea salt, potato starch*, sustainable palm oil* , sugar*, chicken fat* 3.5%, yeast extract, natural flavour, chicken meat* 1%, herbs & spices* (turmeric*, black pepper*, parsley*, rosemary*), onion powder*. * Organic ingredient)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 566
Protein: 58g
Carbs: 70g
Fat: 4.8g
Ingredients
- 2 leek
- 2 courgette
- 4 garlic clove
- 100g smoked bacon (pork, water, salt, brown sugar, dextrose powder, sodium ascorbate, potassium nitrate, sodium nitrite)
- 600g diced chicken breast
- 16g Marmite (Barley, Celery, Oats, Rye, Wheat) (Yeast extract (contains BARLEY, WHEAT, OATS, RYE), salt, vegetable juice concentrate, vitamins (thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, vitamin B12 and folic acid), natural flavouring (contains CELERY).)
- 2 tbsp apple cider vinegar (apple cider vinegar (100%))
- 4 tbsp garlic, basil & parsley paste (Garlic, Basil, Parsley, Sea Salt, Citric Acid.)
- 1 chicken stock cube (Celery) (sea salt, potato starch*, sustainable palm oil* , sugar*, chicken fat* 3.5%, yeast extract, natural flavour, chicken meat* 1%, herbs & spices* (turmeric*, black pepper*, parsley*, rosemary*), onion powder*. * Organic ingredient)
- 320g SW Orzo (Wheat) (88% Durum WHEAT Semolina, 12% Water)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 566
Protein: 58g
Carbs: 70g
Fat: 4.8g
Garlicky chicken, bacon & leek orzo traybake
Let your oven do the hard work with this lazy traybake for fans of big flavour! Chicken, bacon, leek, courgette and garlic bake in a easy-peasy stock with a squeeze of every cook's kitchen mate – Marmite! Orzo lightly boils in the meantime, ready to grab every tasty drop!
Cook time:
30 mins
Cuisine:
Italian
Food group:
Poultry
Allergens: Wheat, Barley, Celery, Oats, Rye
Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- 1x medium baking dish
- 1x saucepan
Chop, chop!
- Heat your oven to 220ºC/fan 200ºC/gas 7.
- Trim the leeks and halve them lengthways, then thinly slice into half-moons. Cut the courgettes into ¼cm-thick slices. Peel and finely chop the garlic.
- On a separate board, trim any visible fat from the bacon then chop.
Bring everything together
- In an ovenproof baking dish, combine the leeks, courgettes, garlic and bacon with the chicken. Squeeze in the Marmite, vinegar and garlic & herb paste and stir.
Ready, steady... bake!
- Dissolve half the stock cube in 200ml boiled water (use all the stock and 300ml water for 4 portions), then pour it into the dish, stir well and bake for 20-22 mins, until the chicken is cooked through.
Sort the orzo
- Meanwhile, cook the orzo in boiling water for 7-8 mins, then drain.
Finish & serve
- Stir the cooked orzo into the ovenproof dish, then serve.