Sweet Chili Lime Chicken with Cilantro Couscous

Name: Sweet Chili Lime Chicken with Cilantro Couscous
Prep time: 35 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 6 Tbsps brown sugar; 79 milliliters chopped cilantro; 237 milliliters couscous; 1 lime, juiced and zested; 4 wedges lime for garnish; 1 Tbsp olive oil; 1 teaspoons red pepper flakes, or more to taste; 454 grams skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cubed; 6 Tbsps soy sauce; 473 milliliters vegetable broth; 1 pinch monosodium glutamate (such as Accent®), or to taste

Sweet Chili Lime Chicken with Cilantro Couscous might be just the American recipe you are searching for. Watching your figure? This dairy free recipe has 436 calories, 33g of protein, and 7g of fat per serving. This recipe serves 4. This recipe covers 20% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. It works best as a main course, and is done in about 35 minutes. The Super Bowl will be even more special with this recipe. Head to the store and pick up olive oil, juice of lime, vegetable broth, and a few other things to make it today. To use up the lime wedges you could follow this main course with the Frozen Key Lime Pie as a dessert.

Instructions

Heat olive oil in a large skillet over medium heat; cook and stir chicken breast cubes in the hot oil until the juices run clear and chicken is no longer pink inside, 5 to 6 minutes.

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Sprinkle chicken with monosodium glutamate as it cooks.

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Whole Chicken

Remove chicken from skillet.

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Whole Chicken

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Mix soy sauce, brown sugar, red pepper flakes, lime juice, and lime zest in a bowl, stirring to dissolve sugar.

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Red Pepper Flakes

Brown Sugar

Lime Juice

Lime Zest

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Pour sauce into hot skillet, bring to a boil, and reduce heat to low. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until sauce begins to reduce slightly, 3 to 4 minutes.

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Sauce

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Mix cooked chicken into sauce and cook until sauce forms a glaze on chicken pieces, about 2 to 3 more minutes, stirring often.

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Sauce

Bring vegetable broth to a boil in a saucepan. Stir couscous into vegetable broth, turn off the heat, and let couscous stand until broth is absorbed, about 5 minutes. Stir cilantro into couscous.

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Cilantro

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Arrange couscous onto a serving platter, top with chicken and sauce, and serve with lime wedges. Squeeze lime wedges over couscous and chicken before serving.

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Lime Wedge