One Pot Mango Chicken Veggie Dinner
This Spicy Sweet One Pot Mango Chicken Veggie Dinner was delightful to enjoy ~ with sweet mangoes and slightly caramelized onions and spicy jalapenos balancing each other out, this can be enjoyed alone or with a side of quinoa or rice.
Last week we started a new tradition in our home. Though, seeing we have only done it twice in the last two weeks, I’m not even sure it technically qualifies as being a tradition …buuuuut…
Last week we began meal prepping! Not just meal planning… but actual meal prepping! As in actually making a boatload of granola, a vat of spiced quinoa with raisins, nuts and veggies, a trough of caramelized onions and asparagus, sheet trays of roasted veggies and a ginormous skillet filled with this Spicy Sweet Mango Chicken Veggie Saute.
Now, juggling multiple dishes that require caramelized onions is no easy task for a messy cook like me. Indubitably, something is gonna get burnt! So, in order to keep pans from smoking too much before I could get around to giving the ingredients in them a good stir, I used Armour Premium All-Natural Lard.
Now, if the word “lard” made you shudder, I’ve gotta share that Armour Premium All-Natural Lard has less saturated fat than butter and no trans fat like shortening.
And, it does not smoke at high temperatures which is great for all sorts of sauteing, roasting, and frying.
Armour Premium All-Natural Lard is gluten free, has zero trans fats, and is even said to help lower LDL cholesterol.
Natural, sustainable, easy to use, and so versatile, Armour Premium All-Natural Lard is flavorless so it won’t change up the flavors in your recipes.
Over the holidays, I found Armour Premium All-Natural Lard in the baking aisle at my local Walmart, I used it to make some pie crusts, and I gotta say, those crusts were so flaky – they made this crust-challenged gal look like she (kinda) knew what she was doing!
Getting back to this Spicy Sweet Mango Chicken Veggie Skillet Saute, y’all, this here dish can be paired with some quinoa or it can be enjoyed just as it is.
After all that meal prepping last Sunday night, I was too knackered to sit down to a bit of everything I made, but, instead of feasting on popcorn and wine and calling it a night, my daughter and I ended up enjoying a bowl of this Spicy Sweet Mango Chicken Veggie Skillet Saute and it hit ALL the spots!
The flavors of sweet mango, lightly caramelized onions, garlic, ginger, crispy carrots, and bell peppers, and spicy jalapeno really came through with Armour Premium All-Natural Lard. And, it was just as good on day 6 -yes, it actually lasted that long when we enjoyed small portions of along with all the other stuff I prepped!
If you are looking for a one-pot vegetarian dish, then check out this One-pot Potato Chickpea Spinach Saute.
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp Armour Premium All Natural Lard
- 1 onion diced
- 2 cloves garlic diced
- 1 tsp fresh ginger grated
- 2 alphonso mangoes cut up
- 4 medium chicken breasts chopped up
- 2 carrots diced
- 1 green bell pepper chopped
- 1 red bell pepper chopped
- 1 14.5 oz can diced tomatoes
- 2 tsp smoked paprika
- salt and pepper to taste
- parsley to garnish
Instructions
- Add the Armour Premium All Natural Lard into a pan over medium heat along with the diced onion. Let onion saute about 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Add the grated ginger, diced garlic, and cut up alphonso mangoes to the pan and saute another 5 minutes or so.
- Add the chicken breasts and saute about 15 minutes, then add in the chopped carrots, red and green bell peppers, can of tomatoes, as well as the smoked paprika and let cook another 10 minutes or so.
- Turn flame off, season with salt and pepper, garnish with parsley and enjoy as a main dish or as a side.
- *Nutrition info is based on 6 main servings of this dish, but, if enjoyed as a side, please be advised that the calorie and nutrition info will differ.
Nutrition
No problem with lard…it’s so much more flavourful than artificial fat. Well, as long as consume in moderation, then it’s fine. The saute looks great!
The flavors in this dish are making my mouth water! The ginger and mango together would be vibrant and fresh — and the chicken and rest of the veg round out a delicious meal. I think this would be great over rice — and I might want to add some chiles or red pepper flake for a spicy kick. I didn’t know that lard was available for purchase… I usually just render my own fat (schmaltz) and have it on hand for certain types of cooking. Will look for this at the store.
Your chicken recipe looks amazingly delicious! And lard, not scared of it at all! In fact, was pleasantly delighted to find it on store shelves here in NC when we moved her 4 years ago! I grew up on a small farm where we raised pork, so lard was in the freezer. But it wasn’t refined like you find now. LOVE making my pie crust with butter and LARD! Oh there’s nothing better!
Oh man! I love the combination of this skillet saute. I am craving for it so trying it soon.
Interesting flavor combination. I am wondering how it would be with coconut oil.
Oooh I’m loving the aromatics you have going on in this dish! Ginger is one of my favorites! Thanks for sharing this great recipe…such an easy way to use chicken 🙂
Looks delicious Shashi! I especially like mango or pineapple paired with chicken! Thanks. I haven’t used Lard in ages, But if it gives me dishes as flavoursome and delicious as this then I’ll certainly consider it!
This looks soooo good, Shashi! I love the chicken/mango combo, and I’m totally going to try using lard the next time I caramelize onions!
I have seen people in Kerala make fish curry using raw mango. And my husband loves that. But chicken with sweet mango, I have never heard that. I think he would love this recipe. 🙂
Lard is good stuff. Get a bad reputation, but it’s a relatively healthy fat in most ways. Anyway, I love doing skillets/stir-frys/whatever (never know what to call them — I think skillet saute is probably the best — go you!). This one looks fabulous — just loaded with flavor. Thanks!
This skillet meal sounds delicious, Shashi! I have to admit that the sweet + spicy combo is a relatively new flavor for me. I used to be very anti-sweet flavors in my savory dishes, but Laura has been slowly getting me on board with the sweet and spicy combo together. And I’m starting to like it! I think I might try my hand at this mango jalapeno beauty that you’ve got here. Also, thanks for the info on the lard. I must admit that I wouldn’t have picked it up at the store until you told me about the lower saturated fat than butter. Interesting. I’ll give it a look next time I’m at Walmart! 🙂