This recipe has been developed using mood-boosting foods to help you eat your way to happiness. Incorporating protein and healthy complex carbohydrates found in quinoa, into your diet can help to nourish your body and balance your hormones, to keep you in a better mood. Furthermore the chicken in this dish is a great source of tryptophan, important for digestion, skin, nerves and serotonin production, great for helping make you feel happy.
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 40 minutes
Serves: 4
Note: This recipe is gluten free
What You’ll Need:
- 250g Tilda® Wholegrain and Quinoa Steamed Basmati rice pouch
- 4 skinless chicken breasts
- 2-3 tbsp harissa paste
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- 2 tbsp pine nuts
- 2 spring onions, chopped
- ¼ cucumber, chopped
- 2 tomatoes, chopped
- 200g kidney beans, rinsed and drained
- 1 tbsp raisins
- 1 tbsp pumpkin seeds
- A handful flat-leaf parsley, chopped
- A handful mint, chopped
What To Do:
- Preheat the oven to 170°C/Gas mark 4
- Smear each chicken breast with two teaspoons of the harissa paste and place in an ovenproof dish
- Drizzle over the oil, season with salt and pepper and bake in the oven for 20-25 minutes until cooked through
- Put the pine nuts in a dry frying pan and place over a medium heat for a few minutes to toast – remove from the heat as soon as they turn golden as they can burn quickly
- Add 300ml of slightly salted water to a pan and boil. Rinse the quinoa in a fine sieve and add to the pan, then cover and cook for 20 minutes
- Add the kidney beans for the last five minutes
- Drain and then combine with all the remaining ingredients
- Serve each chicken breast on a bed of Tilda® Wholegrain and Quinoa Steamed Basmati Rice
Created for Tilda® by Dr Sarah Schenker