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Recipe of the week - post workout paella

Recipe of the week - post workout paella
  • Time: 15-20 mins
  • Serves - 2 (double the ingredients for batch cooking)

Why should I make this meal tonight?

  • Taste - 10/10
  • Immunity booster - 8/10
  • Anti-inflammatory - 8/10
  • Prep time - 7/10
  • Batch cook - 9/10
  • Post Workout - 10/10
  • Getting your hands messy? - 10/10

Ingredients:

  • Mixed seafood (prawns, mussels, squid) (pre-cooked)
  • 70g chopped chorizo
  • 250g wholegrain/brown basmati rice (Unclebens/Tilda, microwaveable)
  • 1 onion, finely chopped
  • Handful Spinach
  • 2 garlic cloves
  • 100g frozen peas
  • 1 kallo stock cube (chicken)
  • 2 tsp paprika
  • Pinch of saffron (optional)
  • 1 tsp cayenne pepper
  • 1 tbsp coconut oil
  • Rocket leaf salad (optional)

Method:

  1. Fry the chorizo with onion and garlic in 1 tbsp coconut oil.
  2. Add a splash of the kallo chicken stock and cover for 2-3 mins, stirring occasionally.
  3. Add the seafood with some more chicken stock and include the paprika, cayenne pepper and saffron. Cover and let simmer for 2-3 mins.
  4. Microwave the rice for 2 mins, once completed pour into the pan.
  5. Add peas with the rice (optional)
  6. Sprinkle with parsley and serve with a rocket leaf salad.

Macro’s

  • Carbohydrate 35%
  • Protein 30%
  • Fat 35%