Brazilian
Galinhada (Chicken and Rice One-Pot)
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Galinhada (Chicken and Rice One-Pot) is Brazilian home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Season the chicken with salt and pepper.
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Heat the oil in a heavy pot and brown the chicken pieces, about 8 minutes, then set aside.
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Saute the diced onion, garlic, tomato, and carrot in the same pot 5 minutes.
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Stir in the rinsed rice, return the chicken, and pour in 4 cups of water.
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Cover and simmer 20 minutes until the rice is tender and the chicken is cooked through.
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Stir in the peas in the last 5 minutes and serve hot straight from the pot, a full weeknight one-pot meal.
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Serve it with
A Brazilian dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Galinhada (Chicken and Rice One-Pot), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The protein alongside
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What it is eaten with
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Something cool and fresh
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Galinhada (Chicken and Rice One-Pot) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 570 kcal
- Protein
- 38 g
- Carbs
- 54 g
- Fat
- 22 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 680 mg
- Saturated fat
- 4 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Galinhada (Chicken and Rice One-Pot) takes about 50 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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