Leece's Totally made up Moroccan Chicken, Vegetable and Lupin Split Yum.

[leecetheartist]

Some people are allergic to lupins so don't eat this if you have any doubts about that.

Leece's totally made up Moroccan Chicken, Vegetable and Lupin Split yum.

So I had a bag of split lupins. I wanted a wholesome meal so I started throwing some ingredients together and making it up as I went along. It turned out very tasty!

Ingredients - you can vary amounts, or indeed contents as you see fit.

400 grams of lupin split from Raw Earth Produce, 'cause they're Good Fine People.

Some chopped boneless chicken - I used thigh for this.

Water for cooking the lupin split

Butter or ghee

Vegetable oil

2 onions - chopped roughly

3 carrots - peeled and cut into rounds

1 red capsicum - chopped roughly, pith and seeds removed. But you knew that.

Moroccan spice mix - turmeric, cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, cloves, pepper, salt is one mix

Half a cabbage finely shredded.

One salt-dried lime from the Eastern cooking supplies shop like the Spice Library. Soak it if you remember! Carefully poke a hole in it, but they're hard so don't slip and cut yourself. You could use a squirt of lime juice or a quartered fresh lime as a substitute.

Splash of rosewater

Handful of sultanas

Method

Whack the split lupins into a pot of boiling water. Stir it in an ongoing sort of way if you're paranoid, but they just don't seem to stick.

While that's boiling for half an hour or until you're done with everything else (but, you know, obviously don't let it boil dry) grab yourself a medium frypan and chuck in the butter or ghee. Once that's doing its thing put in the onion and don't wipe your eyes, cause onion juice really stings. While that's frying grab a large oven dish of some kind - baking dish perhaps, chuck in the capsicum and some oiland put it in the oven, at around 180C because that'll benefit the capsicum. Pop the lime in with the boiling splits.

Coat the chicken in the spice mix because you forgot to marinade it earlier. Put it in with the onions and stir it. When it looks done add it to the capsicum in the oven. Give the carrots a brief fry in the same frypan (straight in after the chicken's gone, no need to wash). Put them in with the chicken in the oven and give a desultory stir. Let that cook in there for 10 minutes or so.

Then add the cooked lentils and lime to the baking dish. I didn't drain the water when I added the lentils to the baking dish - do what you like with it. You might like to drain them off a bit. I didn't have much water left so I just poured everything into the baking dish. Add a splash of rosewater, stir and also stir in the cabbage and sultanas. Turn the heat down a bit if you like. Give it 10 minutes, see if the cabbage is cooked to your liking, depending on

your oven of course.

We really enjoyed this dish!

Makes quite a lot - we'll get 4 dinners and 3 or 4 lunches out of it. Doesn't seem to need bread or rice anything - a bowl of it is very satisfying.

This would be brilliant with a splodge of Greek yoghurt and some fresh pomegranate.

Comments

[runpunkrun]

I had to Google lupins! I've been hearing about them lately (mostly that my chocolate bar was "lupin-free"??), but I didn't know what they were. I guess the answer's a split pea-ish lentil thing.

And, I'm not sure I can explain how not to do this, so I'm hoping you know, but please don't change the font, font size, or font color in your comm posts. It can make things difficult for people to read. I'm guessing it's something to do with the rich text editor.

[leecetheartist]

Okay. Should I edit so it is all the same colour and size?

[runpunkrun]

If you could remove the styling that makes the text smaller, and purple, and also not specify a font that would be much appreciated. It's just that these styles override the way users choose to view the website, and it can interfere with accessibility.

Thank you!

[leecetheartist]

No worries, I just vaguely cut and paste from where I had it in my blog so lets see what I can do.

[runpunkrun]

That worked! Thanks again!