Chicken and apricot couscous

Name: Chicken and apricot couscous | Asda Good Living
Total time: 30 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 1tsp rapeseed oil; 300g Butcher's Selection Diced British Chicken Breast; 1 red onion, quartered; 300g couscous; 1tbsp harissa paste; 1 reduced-salt chicken stock cube, dissolved into 250ml boiling water; 6 dried apricots, cut in half; Juice and zest 1 lemon; 25g pack coriander, chopped; 15g parsley, roughly chopped; 225g cherry tomatoes, quartered; 1tbsp pomegranate seeds

Spicy harissa, sweet apricots and tart pomegranate seeds give this Moroccan-inspired dish a tempting bite

By Asda Good Living,26th February 2019

(18 votes)

Cook: 30 Mins

Serves: 4

Price: £1.29 per serving

Nutritional Information

Each 299g serving contains

Energy
1363kj
326kcal

16%

Fat
3.3g

Low
5%

Saturates
0.6g

Low
3%

Sugars
8.1g

Med
9%

Salt
0.42g

Med
7%

of your 5-a-day

of your reference intake.
Typical energy values per 100g:
456kj/109kcal

Ingredients

1tsp rapeseed oil

300g Butcher's Selection Diced British Chicken Breast

1 red onion, quartered

300g couscous

1tbsp harissa paste

1 reduced-salt chicken stock cube, dissolved into 250ml boiling water

6 dried apricots, cut in half

Juice and zest 1 lemon

25g pack coriander, chopped

15g parsley, roughly chopped

225g cherry tomatoes, quartered

1tbsp pomegranate seeds

Method

Heat the oil in a nonstick pan over a medium setting. Add the diced chicken breast and red onion and fry for 10-15 mins until the chicken is cooked through.

Stir in the couscous and harissa paste and fry for 2 mins. Remove from the heat and add the chicken stock and apricots. Cover with a lid and leave to stand for 10 mins until the couscous is soft.

Fluff the couscous with a fork, then stir through the lemon juice, coriander, parsley and tomatoes. Season with black pepper and sprinkle with the lemon zest and pomegranate seeds to serve.