Chicken and couscous

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4 servings Prep: 10 mins, Cooking: 20 mins
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You need: kettle with boiling water; griddle pan on high heat; large nonstick pan on medium heat.

By Food24 May 12 2019
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Ingredients (19)

couscous
325 ml couscous, chilli pepper flavour or plain
salt
325 ml water — boiled
15 g butter
chicken
3 chicken breast fillets
5 ml cumin — ground
5 ml coriander — ground
5 ml paprika
15 ml olive oil
45 ml vegetable oil
TO FINISH
80 g mangetout
100 g baby corn
30 g spring onions — chopped
1 fresh chillies — finely chopped
lemon — halved, juice only
fresh parsley — chopped
lemon — cut into wedges
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Method:

1. Couscous: Put the
couscous in a large glass bowl, season with salt and add the boiling water. Cover with clingfilm  and leave for 5 minutes. Fluff the couscous
with  a fork, add the butter  and fluff until the butter has melted.

2. Chicken: Flatten the fillets slightly with
the heel of your hand, season with the spices and drizzle the  olive oil over. Heat the vegetable oil in the
pan and fry the chicken for about 6 minutes  a side.

3. Roughly shred the chicken using two
forks.

4. To finish Arrange the mangetout
and corn on the griddle pan. Turn the veggies after a minute or when griddle lines  appear.

5. Mix the spring onion, chilli and lemon
juice  into the couscous and top with the
shredded  chicken, cooked
veggies and parsley.

6. Serve with
lemon  wedges.



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