Chicken-Lima Dinner (Reduced Fat)

Recipe Ingredients

3 lbs	1362g / 48oz	Chicken pieces - skinless
1 tablespoon	15ml	Vegetable oil
1 cup	160g / 5.6oz	Long-grain white rice - dry measure
2 tablespoons	30ml	Diet margarine
1 cup	62g / 2.2oz	Chopped onion
1 tablespoon	15ml	Chopped parsley
1 teaspoon	5ml	Dried marjoram
3 cups	711ml	Fat-free chicken broth - low salt
10 oz	284g	Lima beans - frozen
1 teaspoon	5ml	Salt - optional

Recipe Instructions

Heat pressure cooker. Add oil and swirl to coat bottom; brown chicken. Remove chicken. Combine remaining ingredients in pressure cooker. Place chicken in pot. Close cover securely. Seat the regulator on vent pipe. COOK 15 MINS. Cool cooker at once. Serves 4 to 8.

Tips - When halving recipe, use 3/4 cups rice, 1-3/4 cups broth, and 10 ounce package limas * Use limas frozen not a block of ice.

Varations: * After browning chicken and removing from pan, add 1 teaspoon pale sherry. Then add other ingredients. * Forget salt and add soy sauce to taste. * Forget salt and add Maggi (tm) to taste. * Substitute thyme for the marjoram or use in combination. * Add lemon peel. * Remove skin from chicken pieces.

Serve with Wilted Lettuce Salad with garlicky croutons. Fruit compote or pudding cup. Or Cranberry Sauce with a Waldorf salad (apples and walnuts).

Source:
Pat Phillips (1974) Pressure Cooking Is Pleasure Cooking

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