Semi-Fried Chicken Breast With Lemon and Rice

Receita em Portugues AQUI

This was a very fast food that I prepared yesterday as was only me and my son eating, I had to scavenge the fridge for something to eat and ideas. So I found some round green beans, a couple of old carrots, a lemon, a piece of dried ginger, and I had a couple of left over chicken breasts from another meal I had made before.
So I whipped my paella frying pan out and thought, I can do a part fried part stewed meal, and that is exactly what I did.

Recipe Ingredients:

• 2 chicken breasts (cut in cubes)
• 200grs rice (I blended long grain and basmati)
  
• 2 carrots thinly sliced
  
• 150grs of round green beans (chopped in three parts)
  
• 1 garlic clove (minced)
  
• 1 piece of fresh ginger (about same size as garlic, minced)
  
• 1 juice of a whole lemon
  
• 1 soup spoon of tomato paste
  
• 3-4 spring onions (finely sliced)
  
• a little olive oil
• seasoning salt and pepper (to taste) also a little paprika

Put the frying pan on the fire and in it a glug of olive oil, once this was hot I added the beans, spring onions, garlic and ginger and a little seasoning, always tossing it with a couple of wooden spoons (like stir-frying), done this for about 4-5 minutes then added the chicken checked the seasoning and, stir-fried the chicken until it was all sealed about 3 minutes at this stage I added the tomato paste and the lemon juice, letting this cook (simmer) for about 4-6 minutes adding a little water if it gets too dried, at the end add the paprika and let it cook for one more minute and it is ready to eat.

The rice is boiled as normal for about 10-12 minutes till cooked drain it and pass through it some boiling water while draining, this will remove the starch leaving it nice and dry and fluffy, you can also ad a little drizzle of olive oil to help retain moist