Selina runs a Mauritian Supper Club, in South London where…
A vibrant green, colourful superfood lunch recipe that is just as healthy as it looks.
By Selina Periampillai
A vibrant green, colourful superfood lunch recipe, it even looks healthy. The fresh watercress, with roasted pieces of chicken and hints of salty feta make for a great partnership in flavours. It’s super easy to make.
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- Author: Selina Periampillai
- Total Time: 20 minutes
- Yield: 4 1x
Description
A healthy lunch recipe!
Ingredients
- 1/2 Garlic clove
- 150g/5oz watercress, spinach,rocket
- Grated Zest of 1/2 Lemon
- 175g/6oz quinoa
- 500ml chicken stock
- 250g/8.8 oz cooked roasted chicken
- 45 unsalted cashew nuts
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- Salt and Pepper
Instructions
- Peel the garlic and chop add into a food processor with watercress, spinach and rocket plus lemon zest and a little olive oil to get it going. Blitz, till a paste.
- Place the quinoa in a saucepan, add stock and simmer till quinoa is cooked. All the stock should be absorbed, remove from the heat.
- In a frying pan, dry fry the cashew nuts till golden, shaking the pan so they don’t burn, remove from the heat and season wtih salt and pepper.
- Cut the chicken into small cubes, mix the quinoa with the watercress paste, add the chicken and the cashew nuts. Drizzle over the olive oil and more pepper or lemon juice. Toss well and serve with salad.
- Prep Time: 5 mins
- Cook Time: 15 mins
Selina runs a Mauritian Supper Club, in South London where she cooks for diners wanting to experience homemade mauritian cuisine, learnt from family generations of recipes. Her food is comfort food, nothing fancy or fine dining just down to earth delicious home cooking. She is a self taught wedding cake maker and cook, she recipe writes for websites, is a regular contributor to online food magazines, loves to travel especially to experience different food cultures and is a keen charity walker. You can see her culinary creations and adventures on her food blog Yummy Choo Eats.