Chicken with lemon & courgette couscous

Name: Chicken with lemon & courgette couscous
Prep time: 40 min
Cook time: 40 min
Total time: 40 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 200 grams couscous; 400 milliliters chicken stock; 2 Tbsps olive oil; 4 courgettes, grated; 2 lemons, 1 halved, 1 cut into wedges; 2 boneless, skinless chicken breasts

Chicken with lemon & courgette couscous takes roughly 40 minutes from beginning to end. This dairy free recipe serves 4. One portion of this dish contains roughly 24g of protein, 11g of fat, and a total of 399 calories. Many people really liked this main course. If you have couscous, lemons, olive oil, and a few other ingredients on hand, you can make it.

Instructions

Tip the couscous into a large bowl and pour over the stock. Cover and leave for 10 mins until fluffy and all the stock has been absorbed.

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Couscous

Stock

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Bowl

Heat 1 tbsp oil and fry the courgettes until softened and crisping at the edges. Tip into the couscous, then stir in with plenty of seasoning and a good squeeze of lemon juice from one of the halves.

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Lemon Juice

Zucchini

Seasoning

Couscous

Cooking Oil

Halve the chicken breasts horizontally and put each piece on a sheet of cling film. Cover with another sheet and beat each piece out with a rolling pin to make it thinner. Season.

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Chicken Breast

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Rolling Pin

Heat the remaining oil in a large pan and fry the chicken for about 2 mins on each side until cooked through. Squeeze over the juice from the other lemon half and serve with the couscous and lemon wedges on the side.

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Lemon Wedge