This is my own creation to get my son to eat carrots and chicken, it has now become a family favourite, and fits into the "Comfort Food" genre.
300-400gr Chicken thighs, deboned and skin removed, chopped into small pieces
1 410gr can Tomato puree
400ml Home made chicken stock (refer to the next post)
1 1/2 cups Pasta rice
1 tbsp Chicken spice
1 large Onion, finely chopped
2 cups Finely chopped carrots
125ml Fresh Cream
Method:
De-bone and remove the skin off the thighs, then chop into small pieces. (Reserve the bones and skins in the freezer for making the home made chicken stock).
Season the chicken with the Chicken Spice and brown in a hot pot with some olive oil.
Once browned (do in batches if necessary), remove the chicken from the pot.
Add the onion and the carrots and fry until the onions are soft.
Add a splash of hot water from the kettle to de-glaze the pan.
Add the browned chicken.
Add the chicken stock, Tomato puree and cream, bring to the boil.
Add the pasta rice.
Turn down and simmer for 15 minutes or until the pasta is cooked.
Stir frequently as the pasta rice sinks to the bottom and catches on the bottom of the pot.
Serve with bread sticks for dipping, and if you are brave enough to try to get your little one to eat salad maybe a green salad would go nicely with this.
Notes:
Chicken:
It is a pain to de-bone the thighs but it is well worth the effort. If you are lucky enough to have a good butcher who can do this for you even better. Sometimes you see the prepared thighs at the supermarket, but it is rare. Beware of buying them from the supermarket as I have had several occasions where the chicken is off. If you are running out of time, replace with skinless, boneless, tasteless, textureless, colourless and moistureless chicken breasts. They are readily available and "healthy" (I suppose so is chipboard). Sorry about the comments on the chicken breasts, but I have never liked them and generally they go to the dogs in my house! By all means if your preference is breast over thigh then use them, they are cheaper and easier! But I assure you that the flavour is much better with the thigh meat.
Quantity:
This makes quite a large pot, in the beginning when I came up with the recipe, this was done to freeze in small portions, so that we always had food for Charlie in the freezer. Nowadays though this is the family meal and we all eat it.
The Chopping:
The more the little ones dislike an ingredient the finer you chop it! When I first made this I grated the carrots into the mixture, so that my son would get carrots in without knowing about it. Now he quite enjoys the carrots, so they are not even chopped up. The chicken however is another story!! Lately he will not eat meat, so the chicken is finely chopped and he scoffs it down!
Enjoy it! I will post the recipe for the Home Made Chicken Stock next!
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