Dinner in 30 minutes: chicken with sweet peppers and corn and a green salad

Masha SerdyukLS Food
sweet corn chicken
sweet corn chicken. Source: bourbonandhoney.com

You don't have to be Jamie Oliver to cook dinner in half an hour. Anyone can do it, if only they wanted to.

In the column "Dinner in 30 minutes" FoodOboz editorial staff shares the simplest recipes. Today we tell you how to cook chicken in tomato sauce with sweet peppers, beans and corn.

We recommend serving any green salad as a side dish to this dish - you can find recipes for spring salads with mayonnaise-free dressing here.

chicken and sweet peppers

You will need:

  • chicken fillet - 600 g
  • dark canned beans - 300 g
  • canned corn - 150 g
  • broth or water - 1 cup
  • tomato paste - 3 tbsp. l.
  • red onion - 1 pc.
  • sweet pepper - 1 pc.
  • salt, pepper - to taste
  • sugar - to taste
  • vegetable oil - for frying

How to cook:

  1. Wash the chicken, wipe dry with paper towels. Cut into pieces, salt, pepper and fry in vegetable oil until golden.
  2. Peel the onion and thinly chop. Remove pips and tail from peppers, cut into thin strips. Add the vegetables to the chicken in the pan and fry together, stirring until the vegetables are soft.
  3. Dilute the tomato paste with water or broth, pour it into the pan, add sugar (this is necessary to adjust the sourness of the tomato paste), salt and pepper.
  4. Stir, add beans and corn, bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and simmer together under a lid for 5-7 minutes.
  5. Serve with <a href="https://food.obozrevatel.com/news/3-vesennih-salata-bez-majoneza.htm" target="_blank">green salad</a> or boiled rice. Or <a href="https://food.obozrevatel.com/news/tri-oshibki-kotoryie-myi-dopuskaem-v-prigotovlenii-kartofelnogo-pyure.htm" target="_blank">with mashed potatoes</a>.
Dinner in 30 minutes: chicken with sweet peppers and corn and a green salad

For step-by-step instructions on how to make vegetable broth, see here and here. See the recipe for chicken broth here, pork broth here, and the recipe for beef broth on bones here.

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