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Chicken with Couscous

A flawless pairing of chicken, couscous, and bright vegetables! Chicken couscous is a light dish you can serve for dinner or as a main at lunch. It's an all-in-one — main and side together — rounded out with seasonal vegetables, and it comes together fast, which is handy when you're short on time.

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Composition / ingredients

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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 43 % 10 g
Fats 39 % 9 g
Carbohydrates 17 % 4 g
137 kcal
GI: 60 / 40 / 0
  • Chicken breast is the best cut here — it pairs beautifully with couscous. Buy it already trimmed or cut it off the breast yourself. If you'd rather, use another cut, like thigh or leg meat. Rinse the chicken, pat it dry with paper towels, and cut it into cubes. Next, prep the vegetables. The vegetable base of this dish is sweet bell pepper; for color and contrast, use a bright green and a red one. Core and seed them, rinse, dry, and cut into large pieces. Peel the onion, rinse and dry it, and cut it into very small dice. Rinse the celery and cut it into strips. With the vegetables and meat all prepped, you can sauté without any interruptions. Heat the oil in a heavy-bottomed pot and sauté the onion and celery. Stir now and then, and once the onion turns translucent, add the chopped pepper, dried mint (optional), curry powder, paprika, and salt to taste. Stir well to distribute the spices and cook over medium heat about 8 minutes, so the vegetables don't burn or fall apart. Add the chicken, stir, and cook until the meat is done. While the chicken and vegetables cook, make the couscous. Bring the water to a boil in a saucepan, add salt to taste, and turn off the heat. Pour in the couscous, stir, cover, and let it sit 5 minutes. Lift the lid and check it — the water should be fully absorbed. When it is, add the butter and fluff everything with a fork so the butter coats the grains. Add the couscous to the pan with the chicken and vegetables and fold it together with a spatula until the chicken and vegetables are evenly mixed through. Spoon onto plates and serve right away. It comes out delicious! Enjoy!

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Onion - 41  kcal/100g
  • Sweet pepper - 27  kcal/100g
  • Fresh mint - 49  kcal/100g
  • Dried mint - 285  kcal/100g
  • Mint - 49  kcal/100g
  • Curry powder - 352  kcal/100g
  • Butter, 82% - 734  kcal/100g
  • Unsalted table butter - 709  kcal/100g
  • Unsalted farmhouse butter - 661  kcal/100g
  • Salted farmhouse butter - 652  kcal/100g
  • Clarified butter - 869  kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0  kcal/100g
  • Water - 0  kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913  kcal/100g
  • Paprika - 289  kcal/100g
  • Chicken breast (fillet) - 113  kcal/100g
  • Couscous - 112  kcal/100g
  • Celery stalk - 12  kcal/100g

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