Empty Nester’s Casserole–a vivid, colourful and flavorful dish made in your Immediate Pot! With orzo, hen, tomatoes, asparagus it is a fast and wholesome meal.
Empty Nester’s Casserole
Recently I really feel like an empty nester! Half the time Skyler’s gone doing teenage stuff with associates, work, and so on. Generally Greg works late and doesn’t make it residence for dinner. Reagan’s gone to Kentucky. So I don’t have to all the time make an enormous quantity of meals. However it’s nonetheless good to nourish my physique with an precise dinner and never simply chocolate chex (though I do love me so chocolate chex). This recipe was the right answer. It’s principally a dump and go recipe (I had cooked hen readily available) and it’s bought some vivid flavors with some good vitamin (28 grams of protein and 14 grams of fiber). This makes 2 to 2.5 servings…so you’ll be able to simply double the recipe if you happen to’d like! Take pleasure in!
Elements/Substitution Concepts
- Rooster broth–or water and Higher than Bouillon hen base
- Cooked, chopped hen–or rotisserie hen
- Orzo–or quinoa (ensure to rinse it)
- Olive oil
- Garlic powder
- Kosher salt
- Black pepper
- Spicy brown mustard–or dijon
- Balsamic vinegar–or purple wine vinegar
- Asparagus
- Bitter cream–or plain greek yogurt
- Avocado
- Grape tomatoes–or cherry tomatoes
- Parmesan cheese–non-obligatory however yummy
Steps
Pour broth into Immediate Pot. Add within the hen and sprinkle within the orzo. Add within the olive oil, garlic powder, salt, pepper, mustard, vinegar and eventually the asparagus. Don’t stir.
Cowl Immediate Pot and safe the lid. Make certain valve is about to sealing. Set the guide/stress prepare dinner button to 1 minute. When time is up let pot sit for five minutes after which transfer valve to venting. Take away the lid.
Stir within the bitter cream, avocado and tomatoes.
Prime every serving with a little bit of parmesan cheese. Serve and luxuriate in!
Notes/Suggestions
- This was an multi function pot meal for us however if you happen to’d like one thing else on the aspect strive serving with a dinner roll or cornbread.
- For those who just like the style of crisp raw asparagus (quite than gentle, cooked asparagus) stir it in if you stir within the tomatoes and avocados as an alternative of stress cooking it.
- For the hen I purchased a bundle of hen breasts from the grocery retailer and baked them within the oven. Then I sliced the hen into cubes. I put the hen cubes into little ziploc luggage and frozen them. These bites of cubed hen turn out to be useful for salads at lunch time or for recipes. I really like how a lot protein I can get with just some bites of hen.
- I used my 3 quart mini Immediate Pot*. It’s also possible to make this in a 6 quart pot.
- Extra recommendations on find out how to prepare dinner in your 3 quart mini prompt pot
- Cooking for 2? Go to find out how to halve recipes.
- Retailer leftovers in an hermetic container* within the fridge for as much as 5 days or within the freezer for as much as 3 months.
- Different recipes you can also make with grape tomatoes are hen margherita pasta and Greek inexperienced beans.
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Empty Nester’s Casserole
Prep Time: quarter-hour
Prepare dinner Time: 1 minute (plus 5 minute NPR)
Complete Time: 16 minutes
Yield: 2 servings 1x
Description
A vivid, colourful and flavorful dish made in your Immediate Pot! With orzo, hen, tomatoes, asparagus it is a fast and wholesome meal.
Elements
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Directions
- Pour broth into Immediate Pot. Add within the hen and sprinkle within the orzo. Add within the olive oil, garlic powder, salt, pepper, mustard, vinegar and eventually the asparagus. Don’t stir.
- Cowl Immediate Pot and safe the lid. Make certain valve is about to sealing. Set the guide/stress prepare dinner button to 1 minute. When time is up let pot sit for five minutes after which transfer valve to venting. Take away the lid.
- Stir within the bitter cream, avocado and tomatoes.
- Prime every serving with a little bit of parmesan cheese. Serve and luxuriate in!
- Class: Pasta
- Methodology: Immediate Pot
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