Cajun chicken and rice traybake recipe

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Cajun chicken and rice traybake recipe

Recipe
Spice up your weeknight dinners with this wallet-friendly Cajun chicken and rice traybake recipe. Juicy higher welfare Oakham Gold chicken legs are roasted until golden, then baked alongside a fragrant rice packed with sweet peppers, red onion and warming Cajun spices. Finished with garden peas, a drizzle of creamy yoghurt and a sprinkle of pink-pickled onions, it’s a colourful, flavour-packed dish that’s as easy to make as it is to love.
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Spice up your weeknight dinners with this wallet-friendly Cajun chicken and rice traybake recipe. Juicy higher welfare Oakham Gold chicken legs are roasted until golden, then baked alongside a fragrant rice packed with sweet peppers, red onion and warming Cajun spices. Finished with garden peas, a drizzle of creamy yoghurt and a sprinkle of pink-pickled onions, it’s a colourful, flavour-packed dish that’s as easy to make as it is to love.
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Total time

Ingredients

Servings
4
1.2 kg
M&S Remarksable Value Oakham Gold chicken leg portions
2
M&S Remarksable Value red onions
3
M&S mixed peppers, thinly sliced
1
M&S Remarksable Value chicken stock pot
2 tbsp
M&S everything tomato, garlic and herb paste
2 tbsp
M&S Cajun seasoning
1 tsp
M&S pure honey
350 g
M&S easy cook long grain rice
200 g
M&S Remarksable Value frozen garden peas
1
M&S Remarksable Value lemon, juice only
100 g
M&S Remarksable Value Greek style natural yogurt
1 handful
coriander, leaves picked
to garnish
optional
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step 1
Preheat the oven to 220°C/200°C fan/gas mark 7. Pat the chicken legs (1.2 kg) dry with kitchen paper and add to a large roasting tray. Pop into the oven for 20 minutes, until beginning to brown.
step 2
Cut one of the onions (1) into wedges.
step 3
After 20 minutes, scatter the peppers (3) and the chopped onion around the chicken legs, and then pop them into the oven for a further 20 minutes, until golden brown.
step 4
Meanwhile, add the stock pot (1) to a jug and top up with 350ml of boiling water. Stir in the tomato paste (2 tbsp), Cajun seasoning (2 tbsp) and honey (1 tsp).
step 5
Remove the chicken legs from the roasting dish and tip in the rice (350 g). Pour over the chicken stock mix and stir to evenly distribute the ingredients.
step 6
Nestle the chicken legs into the rice mixture and bake for a final 20 minutes, until the rice is tender and the chicken legs are cooked through. Add the peas (200 g) in the final 5 minutes.
step 7
Meanwhile, thinly slice the remaining onion (1) and add to a small mixing bowl with the lemon juice (1) and a pinch of salt. Leave to lightly pickle while the chicken cooks.
step 8
Remove the chicken from the oven and cover with a clean tea towel until ready to serve.
step 9
Drizzle over the yogurt (100 g) and scatter over the pickled onions and coriander (1 handful) (optional).
step 9 Drizzle over the yogurt (100 g) and scatter over the pickled onions and coriander (1 handful) (optional).

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