In the Middle East , couscous , combined with vegetables or meat, is a traditional meal. Now you can buy couscous in our stores. We offer recipes for cooking couscous with vegetables and chicken.
Couscous with vegetables
Ingredients:
- pumpkin - 200 g;
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc .;
- zucchini - 1 piece;
- hot water 250 ml;
- couscous - 150 g;
- onions - 1 pc .;
- vegetable oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Preparation
Zucchini, pepper, onion and pumpkin are cleaned and mine. We cut the vegetables into cubes and fry them in vegetable oil until the vegetables are ready. We boil water, we add salt to it. In another saucepan, fall asleep couscous and pour hot salted water, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of vegetable oil, cover with a lid and let us brew. After 10 minutes, couscous will be ready, we combine it with ready-made vegetables.
Couscous with chicken and vegetables
Ingredients:
- couscous - 1 glass;
- chicken legs - 2 pieces;
- carrots - 1 piece;
- onion - 1 piece;
- roots of celery and parsley - 50 g;
- chickpea - 0,5 glasses;
- butter - 50 g;
- pepper, salt, bay leaves - to taste;
- parsley.
Preparation
Soak the chickpeas in advance for 2 hours. In boiling water we put the chicken, after boiling, we drain the water. Then again, pour water and give a boil, throw a laurel leaf, carrots, celery roots and parsley. Vegetables before the bookmark cut into cubes. Salt and pepper broth is not necessary, if you want you can add herbs for flavor. In the boiling broth, add soaked chickpeas, cook all together for 20-25 minutes, until the chickpea is ready. In the heated frying pan, melt half the butter and pass the finely chopped onion until golden brown. From the broth we take out the chicken, we separately extract the vegetables and chickpeas, we throw out the laurel.
Vegetables are transferred to a frying pan with onion and fry over medium heat, often stirring, until the liquid evaporates. Remove the frying pan from the fire and spread the chicken pieces on the vegetables. Frying pan cover and leave in a warm place.
On the packaging with couscous is usually written the time of cooking and the amount of liquid. Cook couscous according to the instructions on chicken broth. At the end of the cooking, add the remaining butter. After the oil is melted, turn off the heat and let stand for 3 minutes. Spread the couscous on a wide plate. Over the couscous, we spread vegetables, chickpeas and chicken.