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·Middle Eastern Chicken Pot and Butter-Nut Couscous
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Heat the extra-virgin olive oil in a deep skillet over medium-high heat. When the oil ripples add the chicken and brown 3 to 4 minutes on each side. Add the onions, garlic, carrots, bay leaf and season with spices, salt and pepper, cook 5 to 6 minutes. Stir the fruits into the chicken and vegetables, add the zest of the lemon, olives and 2 1/2 cups of stock. Reduce heat to low and simmer 10 minutes more. Sprinkle with lemon juice and turn off heat. Remove bay leaf.

Ingredients for this step (6 servings)

  • 59.15mlextra virgin olive oil
  • 1onion, thinly sliced
  • 3garlic cloves, grated
  • 236.59mlcarrot, shredded
  • 1fresh bay leaf
  • salt & freshly ground black pepper
  • 1lemon, juice and zest of
  • 177.44mlkalamata olive, chopped
  • 946.35mlchicken stock, halal-certified