Healthy Meals For Kids - Day 4! Chicken With Couscous

Evening all,

Today's healthy meal is a lemony chicken which is so flavorsome without being spicy so it's a dish your child and the whole family will not push around their plate or make excuses that they are  not hungry! Couscous is a kind of grain (semolina) and dates back to somewhere in the Ninth Century where cooking tools have been discovered which resemble the primary tool for cooking couscous. Couscous is big in North African countries nowadays but has been a traditional dish in Trapani, Sicily for centuries. It is wholesome, healthy, and soaks up the flavor of any dish you prepare and put over it. It's delicious which chicken and a little salad at the side. Enjoy!

Ingredients:
1 tbsp olive oil
2 onions, chopped
500g skinless boneless chicken thighs, each cut into 2-3 chunks
3 tbsp tagine paste or 2 tbsp ras el hanout
2 x 400g cans tomato
 with chopped mixed olives
small handful fresh oregano, leaves picked and chopped
2 preserved lemons, flesh removed, skin rinsed and finely chopped
2 tbsp clear honey
1 chicken stock cube
200g giant couscous
handful parsley, chopped

Instructions:
1.Heat the oil in a large flameproof casserole dish with a lid. Add the onions and cook for 10 mins until starting to caramelise. Push the onions to one side of the dish and add the chicken. Cook over a high heat for 5 mins or so until the chicken is browning.
2. Add the tagine paste, tomatoes, oregano, preserved lemons and honey, and crumble in the stock cube. Fill one of the tomato cans halfway with water and pour this into the dish. Season with a little salt and plenty of black pepper. Give everything a good stir, then cover with a lid and simmer for 40 mins, on a gentle bubble, or for up to 4 hrs over a very low heat if you’re eating at different times.
3.Add the couscous 10 mins before you’re ready to serve, cover and simmer for 10 mins or until cooked. If you’re eating at different times, scoop your portion into a pan, add 50g couscous and cook in the same way. Stir in some parsley just before serving.

Have an awesome day and keep smiling!

Love & Peace.