Lena’s Chicken Couscous

Updated at: Wed, 16 Aug 2023 15:55:08 GMT

Step 1

Prepare all vegetables: chopped 2 onions, cut carrots and courgettes into sticks, turnip into quarters, butternut squash into small chunks and slice 4 onions.

Step 2

Soak 1/2 cup of raisins in boiled water

Step 3

Wash 1 tin of chickpeas and set aside in bowl

Step 4

Add couscous to large flat plate/dish and rub each grain with a little olive oil. Add salt to taste.

Step 5

Sprinkle 3-4 tbsps of boiling water and cover with a tea towel and set aside

Step 6

In a large saucepan, fry 2 onions (chopped) and chicken thighs until onions are sweated and chicken is cooked.

Step 7

Add turmeric, ginger, saffron strands and 1 tsp of cinnamon. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Mix well into chicken and onions then add boiling water up to 3/4 of the pan and bring to boil.

Step 8

Add carrots and cook until al dente. In meantime start cooking the onion raisin topping

Step 9

Add turnip, butternut squash, courgettes and chopped coriander. Cover and allow to boil while you prepare the couscous.

Step 10

Fry sliced onions until well sweated.

Step 11

Add chickpeas and 2 tsp cinnamon, and mix well.

Step 12

Add raisins then gently add the water raisins were in.

Step 13

Lower heat. Put lid on but check intermittently until onions caramelise and prevent it drying up.

Step 14

Setup steamer. Add some stock from the vegetables to water in saucepan but don’t overfill with water

Step 15

Add couscous to colander leaving a gap in the centre and sprinkle some more of the water from the vegetables. Put lid on and allow to steam on high heat for 15 mins.

Step 16

Then pour couscous out to the plate it was in and sprinkle veg stock fluffing up with a fork

Step 17

Pour back into colander (as above) for another 5-10 mins

Step 18

In a large serving dish, scoop the vegetables and chicken out into the centre of the plate.

Step 19

Surround the vegetables with the couscous

Step 20

Put the garnish on top and serve

Step 21

Optional: Pour the stock into a serving jug if you’d like your couscous more moist.

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