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Chicken with baked rhubarb

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Rhubarb isn't just for crumbles - baked with chicken it makes a very tasty seasonal spring dish, when rhubarb is at its freshest. Serve with a cucumber-radish salad for a tasty dinner

  • Serves: 4

  • Prep time: 15 mins

  • Cooking time: 45 mins

  • Total time: 1 hr

  • Skill level: Easy peasy

  • Costs: Mid-price

The Nordic Diet chicken with baked rhubarb

Ingredients

If you don't want to cut up a whole chicken, just use cheaper cuts of prepackaged chicken in this bake like thighs and legs

  • 1 organic or free-range chicken, cut into 8 pieces
  • Salt and freshly ground pepper
  • 300g rhubarb
  • 50g raw organic sugar
For the cucumber-radish salad:

  • 1 cucumber, cut into small cubes
  • 1 bunch of radish, sliced
For the cucumber-radish salad dressing:

  • 100ml goats' milk yoghurt
  • 1 garlic clove, finely chopped
  • 2tbsp chopped mint

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 200ºC/gas mark 6.
  2. Put the chicken pieces in an ovenproof dish, sprinkle with salt and pepper, and roast in the preheated oven for 30 mins.
  3. Cut the rhubarb into pieces and mix it with the sugar in a bowl.
  4. Take the chicken out of the oven, place the rhubarb under the chicken, put it back in the oven and roast for 15 mins more.
  5. To make the salad: Mix the cucumber and radish slices in a bowl. Blend together the dressing ingredients and mix this into the salad. Season with salt and pepper.
  6. Serve the chicken and rhubarb with the salad and boiled potatoes.
This recipe is taken from The Nordic Diet by Trina Hahnemann, published by Quadrille, priced £12.99, available from Amazon

Photograph by Lars Ranek

Nutritional information

Guideline Daily Amount for 2,000 calories per day are: 70g fat, 20g saturated fat, 90g sugar, 6g salt.

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