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Lemon chicken and watercress traybake recipe

Lemon chicken and watercress traybake recipe

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Peppery watercress and radish combine with zesty, lemony chicken for the freshest traybake you could ask for. Add potato wedges, leeks and a light yogurt dressing to ensure a well-rounded, nutritious dinner for everyone to enjoy! See method

  • Serves 4
  • 10 mins to prepare and 50 mins to cook
  • 366 calories / serving
  • Healthy

Ingredients

  • 1 leek, trimmed and finely sliced
  • 240g pack radishes, halved
  • 3 baking potatoes, halved and sliced into 1cm-thick wedges
  • ½ lemon, zested and juiced
  • 1 tsp Dijon mustard
  • 1 reduced-salt chicken stock cube, made up to 300ml
  • 650g pack chicken breast fillets, each sliced into 3 pieces
  • 85g bag watercress
  • 150g fat-free yogurt
If you don't have any leeks, try using spring or white onions instead

Each serving contains

  • Energy

    1550kj
    366kcal     18%

  • Fat

    3g 5%

  • Saturates

    1g 5%

  • Sugars

    6g 7%

  • Salt

    1.2g 19%

of the reference intake
Carbohydrate 38.7g Protein 46.9g Fibre 4g

Method

  1. Preheat the oven to gas 6, 200°C, fan 180°C. Put the leek, radishes and potatoes in a large roasting tin. Whisk most of the lemon juice, the lemon zest, mustard and stock in a jug and pour over the veg in the tin. Toss well to coat.
  2. Bake for 30 mins, then stir and nestle in the chicken pieces. Cook for another 20-25 mins until the chicken is cooked through and the potatoes are tender.
  3. Meanwhile, blitz one-quarter of the watercress with the yogurt and remaining lemon juice in a food processor. Toss the rest of the watercress through the traybake, then serve with the watercress sauce.

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