Roast chicken with couscous & pine nut stuffing
Roast chicken with couscous & pine nut stuffing might be a good recipe to expand your main course collection. One portion of this dish contains around 47g of protein, 36g of fat, and a total of 621 calories. This recipe serves 8. It can be enjoyed any time, but it is especially good for Thanksgiving. A mixture of apricot, mint leaves, pine nut, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so flavorful. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes around 1 hour and 50 minutes. Users who liked this recipe also liked Roast Chicken with Winter Vegetables & a Pine Nut Stuffing, Chicken Tagine with Pine-nut Couscous, and Moroccan Skillet Chicken With Pine Nut Couscous.
Instructions
Put couscous in a large heatproof bowl, pour over stock, then cover with cling film for 5 mins until liquid is absorbed. Melt half the butter in a pan, then gently cook onion and garlic for 5-8 mins until soft. Set aside. Dry-fry pine nuts for a few mins until golden.
Combine onions, pine nuts, apricots and herbs with couscous.
Add a good squeeze of lemon juice, season, then stir in egg. Leave to cool.
Using the back of a knife, stretch rashers to 1 times their original length.
Lay, slightly overlapping, on a large sheet of foil to form a rectangle. Make a few slashes in the thickest part of each chicken breast and lay between 2 sheets of cling film. Use the base of a heavy pan to bash the chicken until about 1cm thick. Arrange chicken over the bacon, fitting so there are no gaps, but leave a border on longer sides. (This helps to roll up the chicken.)
Spoon stuffing over chicken in a strip along one of the longest sides. Using tin foil to help, roll bacon and chicken around stuffing like a log. Wrap tightly in foil, twisting the ends to secure, then chill for 2 hrs or up to 1 day.
Heat oven to 180C/fan 160C/gas
Place chicken, join-side down, in a roasting tray. Cook for 30 mins, then unwrap foil and brush roast with remaining butter. Cook, uncovered, for 20-30 mins more until cooked through, and the stuffing is hot (a metal skewer inserted into the chickens centre should come out hot). Cool and wrap in fresh foil to transport.