Sweet Potato & Chicken Breakfast Muffins

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 medium chicken breasts

  300 g / 0.6 lb.
• 5 cloves of garlic
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 celery stick

  diced roughly
• 1 bay leaf

  optional
• 350 g sweet potato

  0.7 lb., peeled and grated
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 spring onions/scallions

  finely chopped
• Coconut oil and muffin or cupcake cases/wrappers

Instructions

• 1 Preheat the oven to 190 C / 375 F (conventional) and boil a kettle of water.
• 2 Place the chicken in a small saucepan together with garlic, salt, celery and bay
  leaf. Cover with boiling hot water and place over medium-low heat to simmer for
  15 minutes. You can cover with a lid but allow some steam to escape so it
  doesn’t come to a full boil. Reduce the heat if needed.
• 3 In the meantime, grate the sweet potato.
• 4 Once the chicken is done, strain the meat and the garlic through a sieve into a
  pot. You can re-use the broth in a soup. Cool the chicken slightly, then shred
  into strips and chop into small pieces. Chop the cooked garlic as well.
• 5 Combine the shredded and chopped chicken and garlic in a bowl. Add the cinnamon,
  salt, onions and olive oil. When adding the grated sweet potato, squeeze it
  tightly over the chicken mixture to allow some of the juices out. This juice
  will help to bind the mixture and make it easier to mould into balls.
• 6 Using a pastry brush or your fingers, grease the bottom of the muffin/cupcake
  wrappers and place them on a flat baking tray/sheet pan (I ended up using 13
  regular cupcake casings). Shape 1-2 tablespoons of the mixture into a small
  ball/patty using your hands and add it to the wrapper. Press the patty down
  slightly. Continue with the rest of the mixture.
• 7 Place the tray with the muffins in the oven, middle shelf and bake for 20
  minutes. If your oven's heat is slightly uneven, rotate the tray half way
  through. Once cooked, remove and allow to cool slightly. Store in an airtight
  container for up to 3 days in the fridge.

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