Fast Chicken & Butter Bean Stew Recipe

Fast chicken & butter bean stew

Ingredients

• 300 grams of chicken fillet
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 250 grams of lima beans
• 1 tablespoon of olive oil
• 1 bit of pepper
• 1 piece of leek
• 200 grams of spinach
• 10 sprigs of thyme
• 1 glass of white wine
• 1 bit of salt

Portions

2 persons

Cooking time

15 minutes

Instructions

1. Finely chop the clove of garlic.
2. Cut the chicken fillet into coarse pieces.
3. Put a tablespoon of olive oil in a wok.
4. Put the chicken with the garlic in the wok and season it with some pepper and salt.
5. Wok the chicken until it turns nicely brown.
6. Meanwhile, clean the leek.
7. Cut the leek into elongated strips of about 10 cm. You can also simply cut it into rings, but I like the variation in structure.
8. Add the leek to the chicken and wok this briefly.
9. Rinse and add the lima beans.
10. Extinguish the whole with the white wine.
11. Add the spinach and gently stir in the dish so that the spinach shrinks.
12. Let it all simmer.
13. Remove the leaves of thyme from the sprigs and add the leaves to the dish.
14. Ready is the fast chicken & butter bean stew. Enjoy your meal!

About the quick chicken & butter bean stew recipe

This fast chicken & butter bean stew is really brilliant, even if I say so myself. It is because of the simple combination of those few ingredients in this dish. If you prefer not to boil with alcohol, you can also replace the wine with chicken broth with a small dash of white wine vinegar. Also very tasty!

If you choose the white wine, it is good to keep in mind that not all alcohol evaporates. After more than 2 hours of stewing of dishes to which alcohol has been added, more than 90% of the alcohol has disappeared. With shorter heating, more alcohol remains: about 40% after 15 minutes of heating. So there is a little bit of alcohol left.

How can this dish be healthy ?! That is pretty simple. The Health Council advises not to drink alcohol or at least not more than one glass per day. Only 1 glass of white wine goes into this dish. That is half a glass per person. In addition, a portion of the alcohol evaporates. So it's really just a little bit of alcohol and that's why this dish still fits perfectly in a healthy diet.