Moroccan Beetroot Glazed Chicken with Warm Couscous Salad

Moroccan Beetroot Glazed Chicken with Warm Couscous Salad

Ready in 35 minutes Serves 2-3
This dish most recently appeared in My Classic (4 Nights For 2) on Sunday, May 13, 2018.

Any resting juices from your chicken can be added to the beetroot glaze for extra flavour.


Ingredients

Chicken

  • 300g chicken breasts
  • 1½ tsp Moroccan spice mix

Salad

  • 1 courgette
  • 1 carrot
  • ¼-½ red onion
  • ½ cup chicken stock or water
  • 1 tsp Moroccan spice mix
  • ¼ tsp salt
  • 120g couscous
  • ½ bag baby spinach
  • 2 tsp olive oil
  • Juice of ¼ lemon

Beetroot Glaze

  • ½ cup water
  • ½ tsp cornflour
  • 1½ Tbsp beetroot relish
  • ¼-½ tsp balsamic vinegar

To Serve

  • 1 Tbsp mint
  • 25g sliced almonds
  • 2-3 Tbsp yoghurt
  • ¼ lemon

Steps

  1. Preheat oven to 220°C. Line an oven tray (with a lip) with baking paper. Pat chicken dry, season and toss with first measure of Moroccan spice mix and set aside.
  2. Dice courgette, carrot and onion 1cm. Toss on prepared tray with a drizzle of oil and season. Cook in oven for 10 minutes. While vegetables cook, heat a drizzle of oil in a medium fry-pan on medium-high heat. Cook chicken for about 3 minutes each side until golden but not cooked through. Reserve pan.
  3. Add chicken to tray with vegetables and cook for 5-8 minutes (depending on thickness), or until cooked through and vegetables are tender. Remove from oven and set chicken aside to rest before slicing thinly.
  4. Combine stock/water, second measure of Moroccan spice mix and salt in a medium pot and bring to the boil. Once boiling turn off heat, add couscous, stir, cover and leave for 5 minutes, then fluff up with a fork. Thinly slice spinach and stir through couscous with cooked vegetables, oil and lemon juice. Season to taste.
  5. Wipe reserved pan. Combine water and cornflour in a small bowl until smooth, then add to pan with beetroot relish and balsamic vinegar. Bring to a simmer and cook for about 1 minute until thickened slightly. Remove from heat and season to taste. Cut lemon into wedges.
  6. To serve, place couscous salad on plates and top with sliced chicken and beetroot glaze. Sprinkle with mint and sliced almonds. Dollop with yoghurt and squeeze over a lemon wedge.

Nutritional Information

Energy 2065 kj
494 kcal
Protein 37.3g
Carbohydrate 36.3g
Fat 21.7g