AMAZING COUSCOUS!

couscous salad with pan-fried chicken

Often times we don’t know what to do with the leftover vegetables. I was about to throw the ones I had in my fridge and I remembered I had this small couscous remaining. I thought ok, let me make a couscous salad and see how it goes, to my greatest surprised, it turned out faultless. So here is a perfect way to put those veg in the stomach rather than throw ‘em away.

COUSCOUS SALAD WITH CHICKEN

THINGS NEEDED

Chicken fillets

1 cup of Couscous

Sugar snap

Green, yellow and red paprika (halve of each)

Peas

2 Knorr cubes

Curry

Thyme

Garlic

Carrots

Sunflower oil/vegetable oil

Onions

Spring onions

Olive oil

4 mushrooms

Prawns

1/2 lemon

Method

For the chicken:

Spice the chicken with 1 Knorr cube, garlic, thyme, lemon juice and 1 teaspoon of sunflower oil

Massage the seasons into the fillets

Cover with a cling film and put into the fridge and crack on with the veg preps.

seasoned chicken ready to go in the fridge 

**Once the vegetables are cut and ready to be fried, bring out the chicken from the fridge and pan fry them**

For couscous

 

Bring water to boiling

In a bowl, put in a cup of couscous

Pour in the water just a little

Add a pinch of salt, a tablespoon of olive oil

Cover with cling film

Leave for about 10 minutes

Then use a fork and scrape it up

Set aside

couscous soaked in boiled water

couscous covered with cling film

For the vegetable

1/2 lemon, peas, green and red paprika, carrot, spring onions and sugar snaps

Mushrooms

Prawns

Cut the vegetables into strings except the sugar snaps

Cut the mushroom into thin slices

In a frying pan, pour in a teaspoon of sunflower oil

Allow heating up, put in the mushroom, prawns and ½ Knorr, stir-fry for about 2 minutes

Add the onions, spring onions and the carrots

Stir-fry for another minute

Then add the rest of the vegetables with a tablespoon of curry and fry for another 2 minutes

Finally, add the couscous. Stir and taste for salt.

Turn off the gas.

Serve with the pan-fried chicken and hot pepper (optional).