I’m starting to wonder if leftover chicken recipes are all I have up my sleeve. The blog is inundated with them. This is largely down to the fact that Sunday night roast chicken is a fortnightly treat, thus Monday morning brings with it the promise of leftover goodies. This dish was inspired by a Nigel Slater recipe in the latest Sainsbury’s magazine. Cheers Nige.
Serves 1
2 shallots, peeled and roughly chopped
1 stick celery, roughly chopped
100g brown basmati rice, soaked in cold water
Chicken stock
Asparagus, roughly chopped
Leftover chicken
A handful of cooked prawns
Parsley and mint
Half a lemon
Olive oil, salt, pepper
– Sweat the shallot and celery in olive oil until softened. Drain and rinse the rice under cold running water for a minute or so, before adding to the pan with salt and pepper. Add enough stock to cover by a couple of centimetres, bring to the boil, cover and simmer gently for 25-30 minutes.
– Meanwhile, bring a pan of salted water to the boil and add the asparagus. Simmer for 2 minutes, drain and run under a cold tap for a minute.
– When the rice is cooked add the chicken, asparagus, and prawns, along with some chopped parsley and mint, and a squeeze of lemon juice. Warm through and serve.
If there’s one thing better than roast chicken, it’s leftover roast chicken. Sometimes I just plonk myself down with the carcass in front of me, plus salt, pepper and some kind vinegary product and take to it. Your pilaf looks much more civilised though, I must say.
Ooh I like the sound of that Helen. Let’s swap next time, J
and I was bemoaning the same thing yesterday about how much I love chicken but there’s only so much one can do. My mum used to make a similar recipe but would also add bits of spicy sausage just to make it a bit more zingy!
loving the blog and pics as always x
Thanks Dominic. I was tempted to sling in some chorizo, but did leftover chicken with chorizo a few weeks ago so thought I’d best change it up. J
Looks delicious – Edith would have been proud x
Brilliant. Must add that to my dictionary of famous food.
This looks great! Funny thing is, I just posted something very similar, but with left over lamb.
Can’t be leftover pilafs (or pullaos in my case)….
Ooh yes, will check that out, J