Best Chili Chicken Couscous Recipes

SWEET CHILI LIME CHICKEN WITH CILANTRO COUSCOUS

Sweet Chili Lime Chicken with Cilantro Couscous image

A very flavorful Asian-type meal with a sweet heat that incorporates my favorite flavors (chili, lime, and cilantro) with a little bit of sugar. The sauce glazes the chicken and is wonderful over the cilantro couscous. You can substitute salt and pepper to taste for MSG.

Provided by Grumpy's Honeybunch

Categories World Cuisine Recipes Asian

Time 35m

Yield 4

Number Of Ingredients 11

Ingredients

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 pound skinless, boneless chicken breast halves, cubed
1 pinch monosodium glutamate (such as Ac'cent®), or to taste
6 tablespoons soy sauce
6 tablespoons brown sugar
½ teaspoon red pepper flakes, or more to taste
1 lime, juiced and zested
2 cups vegetable broth
1 cup couscous
⅓ cup chopped cilantro
4 wedges lime for garnish

Steps:

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. Sprinkle chicken with monosodium glutamate as it cooks. Remove chicken from skillet.
Mix soy sauce, brown sugar, red pepper flakes, lime juice, and lime zest in a bowl, stirring to dissolve sugar. 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. Mix cooked chicken into sauce and cook until sauce forms a glaze on chicken pieces, about 2 to 3 more minutes, stirring often.
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.
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.

Nutrition Facts : Calories 379.9 calories, Carbohydrate 52 g, Cholesterol 58.5 mg, Fat 6.2 g, Fiber 3 g, Protein 28.4 g, SaturatedFat 1.2 g, Sodium 1675.2 mg, Sugar 22.2 g

CHILI CHICKEN COUSCOUS

CHILI CHICKEN COUSCOUS image

Yield 4 people

Number Of Ingredients 8

Ingredients

2 cups Couscous
4 cups Boiling water
1 tsp Olive oil
14 ounces Chicken, diced
1 Yellow pepper, seeded, sliced
2 Large zucchini, sliced thickly
1 Green chili, thinly sliced
1 Large tomato, diced

Steps:

- Cook couscous as per directions - Heat oil in frying pan, stir-fry chicken, then reduce heat - Stir in pepper, zucchini and chili - Cook 10 minutes - Stir in tomato, then couscous - Add salt and pepper, stir until hot