Jewelled rice
Give rice an exotic edge with this colourful and fragrant recipe, perfect with slow-cooked lamb
Pomegranate chicken with almond couscous
- Preparation and cooking time
- Prep:
- Cook:
- Easy
- Serves 4
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- 1 tbsp vegetable oil
- 200g couscous
- 1 chicken stock cube
- 1 large red onionhalved and thinly sliced
- 600g chickenmini fillets
- 4 tbsp tagine spice paste or 2 tbsp harissa
- 190ml bottle pomegranate juice(not sweetened; we used Pom Wonderful)
- 100g pack pomegranate seeds
- 100g pack toasted flaked almond
- small pack mintchopped
Nutrition: per serving
- kcal590
- fat20g
- saturates2glow
- carbs50g
- sugars14g
- fibre4g
- protein50ghigh
- salt0.4glow
Method
step 1
Boil the kettle and heat the oil in a large frying pan. Put the couscous in a bowl with some seasoning and crumble in half the stock cube. Add the onion to the pan and fry for a few mins to soften. Pour boiling water over the couscous to just cover, then cover the bowl with a tea towel and set aside.
step 2
Push the onion to one side of the pan, add the chicken fillets and brown on all sides. Stir in the tagine paste or harissa and the pomegranate juice, then crumble in the rest of the stock cube and season well. Simmer, uncovered, for 10 mins until the sauce has thickened and the chicken is cooked through. Stir through the pomegranate seeds, saving a few to scatter over before serving.
step 3
After 5 mins, fluff up the couscous with a fork and stir through the almonds and mint. Serve the chicken on the couscous with the sauce spooned over.
