
Another tasty, healty, quick and cheap recipe: Chicken thighs with peppers and onions
Time for preparation 30 minutes
Ingredients (serve 2):
- Chicken thighs 500 gr. (£ 1.69)
- Bag of red-green-yellow peppers (£ 1)
- 1 onion
- Tomato pelati jar
- Extra virgin olive oil
- 1/2 red chilly (fresh if possible) – link
Total cost of ingredients: £ 3 circa
Preparation
- Cut down one onion in slices
- Cut half chilly in thin slices
- Sautee (read fry gently) the onion and chilly slices in a pan with a few spoons of extra virgin olive oil
- Cut the peppers in thin slices and put them in the pan (Picture 1)
- Stir fry for 5 minutes with medium-high heat
- Add the content of a jar of peeled tomato to the onion and keep cooking medium heat
- Prepare the chicken tighs: remove the skin, fat and cut them in chops
- Add salt and oregan to the peppers
- Add the chicken, stir and cover with a lid
- Keep cooking for 10-15 minutes or until the chicken is perfectly cooked inside at medium heat with a lid (taste it to be sure)

Cooking tips
Stir frequently when the heat is high and cover with a lid to maintain the right amount of juice in the pan. If it gets to dry simply add half a glass of water at the time

As a general rule you can keep the heat quite up without a lid when cooking the peppers.
When you add the tomato use a medium fire without the lid
And finally, when you add the chicken, kepp the heat to medium and cover with a lid
Feel free to experiment with different spices:
- Cumin powder
- Black pepper
- White pepper
- Coriander
- Rosmary
Why is this healthy
It’s a plate made mainly of vegetables (peppers, onion and tomato), the chicken is white meat which is better then red meat for health