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One-pot chicken & chickpeas with giant couscous
With sun-dried tomato paste and our smoked paprika and oregano blend, this stew-pendous dish is serving serious summer vibes! Into the pot go chicken, onions, peppers and tomatoes, simmered with our easy squeezy pastes, plus chickpeas and giant couscous. Lemon and fresh parsley give extra zing.
SWK: High protein
Plants 6
SWK: High fibre
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Ingredients
- 1 onion
- 1 pepper
- 110g baby tomatoes
- 1 tbsp sun-dried tomato paste (Water, Sun Dried Tomato (Sun dried tomatoes, Salt), Tomato Paste, White Wine Vinegar 12%, Salt, Ground Oregano, Citric Acid, Ascorbic Acid)
- 300g chicken breast strips (raw chicken breast slices)
- 4 tsp garlic paste (Garlic, Sea Salt, Citric Acid)
- 2 tsp smoked paprika & oregano blend (smoked paprika, oregano)
- 230g chickpeas (Chickpeas, water, salt)
- 1 unwaxed lemon
- 1 handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 200g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 120g Wholewheat Giant Couscous (Wheat, Mustard, Soya) (Whole WHEAT Flour (100%))
- 8g chicken stock powder (Chicory Extract, Yeast Extract, Salt, Natural Flavouring, Onion Powder, Sugar, Chicken Stock Powder (100% Chicken Broth Powder) Rapeseed Oil.)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 629
Protein: 55g
Carbs: 67g
Fat: 6.5g
Ingredients
- 2 onion
- 2 pepper
- 200g baby tomatoes
- 600g chicken breast strips (raw chicken breast slices)
- 2 tbsp sun-dried tomato paste (Water, Sun Dried Tomato (Sun dried tomatoes, Salt), Tomato Paste, White Wine Vinegar 12%, Salt, Ground Oregano, Citric Acid, Ascorbic Acid)
- 8 x garlic paste (Garlic, Sea Salt, Citric Acid)
- 4 tsp smoked paprika & oregano blend (smoked paprika, oregano)
- 460g chickpeas (Chickpeas, water, salt)
- 400g passata (tomatoes, salt, citric acid)
- 1 unwaxed lemon
- 1 handful of fresh flat-leaf parsley
- 240g Wholewheat Giant Couscous (Wheat, Mustard, Soya) (Whole WHEAT Flour (100%))
- 8g chicken stock powder (Chicory Extract, Yeast Extract, Salt, Natural Flavouring, Onion Powder, Sugar, Chicken Stock Powder (100% Chicken Broth Powder) Rapeseed Oil.)
Nutritional Information
Calories: 616
Protein: 54g
Carbs: 65g
Fat: 6.4g
One-pot chicken & chickpeas with giant couscous
With sun-dried tomato paste and our smoked paprika and oregano blend, this stew-pendous dish is serving serious summer vibes! Into the pot go chicken, onions, peppers and tomatoes, simmered with our easy squeezy pastes, plus chickpeas and giant couscous. Lemon and fresh parsley give extra zing.
Cook time:
35 mins
Cuisine:
Italian
Food group:
Poultry
Allergens: Wheat
Cooking Instructions
Before you start
- 1 large non stick frying pan
Prep the veg
- Peel and thinly slice the onions, then deseed and thinly slice the peppers.
Sauté & stir
- Spritz a large non-stick frying pan with cooking spray and put it over a medium-high heat. Fry the onions, peppers, tomatoes and chicken for 5 mins.
Things get saucy!
- Stir in both pastes and the paprika blend and cook for 1 min.
- Add the couscous, chickpeas with their water and passata. Add the stock and pour in 400ml water (450ml for 4 portions) and stir well.
- Simmer for 15 mins until the chicken is cooked through, the couscous is soft and the sauce has reduced to coat everything.
Add some zing
- Squeeze in the lemon juice (to taste).
- Finely chop the parsley and stir half through the pan.
Dish up
- Sprinkle over the remaining parsley and serve.