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Pomegranate chicken with almond couscous

Name: Pomegranate chicken with almond couscous
Prep time: 5 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 1 tbsp vegetable oil; 200g couscous; 1 chicken stock cube; 1 large red onion halved and thinly sliced; 600g chicken mini 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 mint chopped

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Serves 4

Easy

Prep: 5 mins

Cook: 15 mins

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Jazz up chicken breasts in this fruity, sweetly spiced sauce with pomegranate seeds, toasted almonds and tagine paste

Healthy

High-protein

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Ingredients

Nutrition

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1 tbsp vegetable oil
200g couscous
1 chicken stock cube
1 large red onion

halved and thinly sliced
600g chicken

mini 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 mint

chopped

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Nutrition: per serving

kcal590
fat20g
saturates2g

low
carbs50g
sugars14g
fibre4g
protein50g

high
salt0.4g

low

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.

Recipe from Good Food magazine, November 2014

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