Chicken with Couscous Recipe

Recipe Jun 12, 2021 0 526 Add to Reading List

Want to impress your family with your culinary skills? Chicken with Couscous will help you to win over the chicken lovers in your family. This Mediterranean recipe is perfect for occasions like potluck, kitty parties or game nights and can be relished by people of all age groups. This flavorful chicken recipe can be savored by adults or children. It is a main dish recipe that fills up not just your stomach but also satiates your soul.

Chicken with Couscous Recipe

Ingredients:

1 teaspoon toasted cumin seeds
1 cloves garlic
1/2 teaspoon spice paprika
30 ml extra virgin olive oil
1/2 teaspoon paprika powder
salt as required
1 teaspoon lemon rinds
2 tablespoon mint leaves
1/2 teaspoon honey
sumac as required
700 gm chicken
1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper
1/4 bunch chopped coriander leaves
1/4 teaspoon ground turmeric
1 halved lemon
35 gm couscous
1/4 cup thinly sliced fennel leaves
1/2 teaspoon spice cayenne pepper
1/2 teaspoon dijon mustard
30 ml virgin olive oil
1 teaspoon vinegar

For Garnishing :

2 lemon wedges

Recipe :

Step 1

Using a grinder, grind cumin seeds and black pepper. Once done, mix garlic and chopped coriander leaves and blend it till it turns into a paste. To this paste add turmeric, sweet paprika, paprika powder and a small pinch of salt. Give it a generous mix.
Step 2

Next, use this mix to marinate the chicken by rubbing it all over. Keep the remaining sliced lemon inside the chicken and tie up the legs along with the wings of the chicken before cooking it. Leave this aside for 20 minutes.
Step 3

Meanwhile, preheat the barbecue by placing its cover on top to build up strong heat. On one side, turn off the burners . Once heated, take the chicken with its breast side up and keep it inside the barbecue on the side whose the burners are off. Now cover it and let the chicken cook for some time. Keep checking after every 15 minutes to make sure that it cooks evenly and is smoked well. Once done, take the cooked chicken out and let it cool.
Step 4

Now, add 1/2 cup water and a pinch of salt along with virgin olive oil in a pan and place it on medium flame. Let the water heat up and then add the couscous to it. Stir it with a spoon and make sure that couscous is boiled. Now, drain the excess water and transfer the boiled couscous in a bowl.
Step 5

Now, in a small bowl, mix extra virgin olive oil, sumac and vinegar to prepare sumac vinaigrette. Add mustard, honey, lemon rind and its juice and whisk it together. Add the boiled couscous in this and toss them. Keep it aside. After a while, add fennel leaves, spice cayenne pepper to couscous mix and shake them together.
Step 6

Serve the couscous on a plate with barbecued chicken and some lemon wedges on the side to enjoy!