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Paprika Chicken Butter Bean Traybake with Peppers and Lemon

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A family traybake with chicken thighs, butter beans, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, parsley, and lemon.

80 min505 kcal4 base servingsDinnerTraybakeGluten FreeDairy Free
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Focus ingredients: chicken thigh fillets, butter beans, baby potatoes, red peppers

Dietary fit: Gluten-free, Dairy-free

Serving tip: Cool leftovers in shallow portions and refrigerate within1–2hours at0–5°C. Use within48hours or any earlier ingredient use-by limit. Reheat once only until steaming hot throughout.

Paprika Chicken Butter Bean Traybake with Peppers and Lemon plated and ready to serve.

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Ingredients

What you need

  • 650g chicken thigh fillets
  • 480g butter beans
  • 700g baby potatoes
  • 300g red peppers
  • 1 red onion
  • 300g cherry tomatoes
  • 3 cloves garlic
  • 1 lemon
  • 20g parsley
  • 2 tsp smoked paprika
  • 1 tsp dried oregano
  • 30ml olive oil
  • 100ml water

You'll also need

two35x25cm roasting trays, 3l saucepan with lid, clean food thermometer, scales and measuring jug, knife and board

Method

Step by step

Up to 8 clear steps
  1. Paprika Chicken Butter Bean Traybake with Peppers and Lemon cooking step 1: Prep the tray.
    Step 1

    Prepare ingredients

    For more than four servings, cook separate batches of no more than four. Divide every displayed ingredient and measured method total between batches. Keep pan sizes and food thickness fixed and allow extra time. Heat oven to 220°C conventional/200°C fan. Cut potatoes into 2cm cubes, peppers into 1cm strips and onion into thin wedges. Halve tomatoes, crush garlic and drain beans. Chop parsley. Measure 2g lemon zest and 30ml juice; cut remaining fruit into wedges.

  2. Paprika Chicken Butter Bean Traybake with Peppers and Lemon cooking step 2: Start the potatoes.
    Step 2

    Start potatoes

    Divide potatoes and onion evenly between two 35x 25cm roasting trays. Toss with 15ml oil shared between the trays and spread in one layer. Roast 20 minutes, turning and swapping tray positions halfway.

    20 min
  3. Paprika Chicken Butter Bean Traybake with Peppers and Lemon cooking step 3: Season the chicken.
    Step 3

    Season chicken

    Unfold the raw boneless chicken thighs so no piece is thicker than 2cm. Coat with 10ml oil,all paprika,oregano,garlic,measured lemon zest and 15ml lemon juice. Wash hands and utensils after handling raw chicken.

  4. Paprika Chicken Butter Bean Traybake with Peppers and Lemon cooking step 4: Add chicken and peppers.
    Step 4

    Roast chicken and vegetables

    Add peppers to the potato trays and arrange chicken in one layer among them, dividing everything evenly between trays. Roast 25–30 minutes, swapping trays and turning vegetables halfway, until potatoes crush easily and the thickest chicken pieces reach 75°C for 30 seconds on a clean probe. Check several pieces; continue cooking and recheck if needed.

    30 min
  5. Paprika Chicken Butter Bean Traybake with Peppers and Lemon cooking step 5: Add beans and tomatoes.
    Step 5

    Warm tomato beans

    During the final 15 minutes of roasting, heat the remaining 5ml oil in a 3l saucepan. Add all tomatoes,drained beans and 100ml water. Bring to a gentle simmer, partially cover and cook 7–10 minutes, stirring, until tomatoes soften and beans are hot throughout. Remove lid briefly to reduce excess liquid if needed.

    10 min
  6. Paprika Chicken Butter Bean Traybake with Peppers and Lemon cooking step 6: Finish with lemon.
    Step 6

    Serve

    Stir the remaining 15ml lemon juice and half the parsley into the beans. Divide all chicken,potatoes,peppers,onion and warm tomato beans equally between plates. Spoon over cooked tray juices,scatter remaining parsley and serve all lemon wedges.