Lemon-spiced Chicken With Chickpeas

Total Time: 20 mins Preparation Time: 5 mins Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 tablespoon sunflower oil
• 1 onion, halved and thinly sliced
• 4 boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut into chunks
• 1 cinnamon stick, broken in half
• 1 teaspoon ground cilantro
• 1 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1 lemon, juice and zest of
• 1 (15 ounce) can chickpeas, drained
• 7 fluid ounces chicken stock
• 8 ounces spinach

Recipe

• 1 heat the oil in a large frying pan.
• 2 fry the onion gently for five minutes.
• 3 turn up the heat and add the chicken.
• 4 fry for about 3 minutes until golden.
• 5 stir in the spices and the lemon zest and fry for 1 more minute.
• 6 tip in the chickpeas and stock.
• 7 put the lid on and simmer for 5 minutes.
• 8 season to taste and then tip in spinach and re-cover.
• 9 leave the spinach to wilt for 2 minutes and then stir through.
• 10 squeeze over the lemon juice just before serving.