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Harissa Chicken & Giant Cous Cous Salad

Recently, I’ve been using a lot of the spices from the rack and I’ve got into a groove of trying to get through as many as I can. This Harissa Chicken packs loads of flavour with red chilli, red pepper, cumin, coriander, garlic, chilli flakes and much more!

I have adapted the recipe as a lot of the recipes ask for Caraway seeds, so I used Fennel which is a sufficient substitute. The sauce has been one of my favourites I’ve made recently and because I had some left over I’m going to make fish tacos tomorrow, so I’ll spread the leftover sauce on those too.

The giant cous cous salad is really easy to make and I’ll be honest, I started chopping up things we had in the fridge that I thought may taste nice together. As a last minute addition, we picked some mint leaves from the garden that have just started to show, it’s one of the easiest herbs to grow and is very versatile. It tasted great on this dish.

INGREDIENTS:

FOR THE HARISSA CHICKEN:

  • 2 x Chicken Breast
  • 3 x Red Chillies
  • 1/2 Chopped Red Pepper
  • 1 x Tsp Cumin
  • 1 x Tsp Smoked Paprika
  • 1 x Tsp Fennel
  • 1 x Tsp Salt
  • 2 x Garlic Cloves (Crushed)
  • 1 x Lemon Wedge Juice
  • 1 x Tbsp White Wine Vinegar
  • 1 Tbsp Tomato Paste
  • Drizzle of Olive Oil

FOR THE COUS COUS:

  • 150g of Giant Cous Cous
  • 6 x Cherry tomatoes quartered
  • 1 x 2 inch piece of Cucumber chopped
  • Half a Red onion, finely diced
  • Half a Red Pepper finely diced
  • Handful of Coriander
  • Handful of Mint
  • Half a Lemon Juice
  • 1 x Vegetable stock cube (500ml of water)

HARISSA SAUCE RECIPE:

  1. Slice and de-seed the Red chillies and chop into small chunks. Be careful when handling not to touch your face/eyes…they can sting a little.
  2. Toast off your coriander seeds and cumin seeds on the hob before grinding with a pestle and mortar.
  3. In a bowl, add your 1/2 red pepper, smoked paprika, fennel, salt, crushed garlic, lemon juice and white wine vinegar. Mix this into a paste with a spoon.
  4. Put in your tomato puree, Throw in your Red Chillies, a sprinkle of chilli flakes. Either put this into a blender or if you have a hand-blender you can do this in the bowl.
  5. As you are mixing, drizzle in olive oil until the sauce gets to the right consistency for you. You can add water at this stage if you want to thin the sauce.
  6. Marinade the Chicken with the Harissa Sauce and refrigerate for 2 hours, or overnight if possible.

METHOD:

  1. Pre-heat the oven to 180C. Take your chicken out of the oven ready for cooking and cook for 20-25 minutes.
  2. Whilst your chicken is cooking, boil 500ml of water on the hob and put in your vegetable stock. Cook your cous cous according to the packet directions, ours was on a low/medium heat for 8 minutes.
  3. Prepare all of your vegetables and herbs.
  4. Once your cous cous is cooked, scoop it into a bowl and squeeze in your lemon juice. Mix in all of your vegetables and herbs.
  5. Once your chicken is cooked, start plating up your meal. We decided to throw on some green leaf for garnish.

Thanks for reading this post, it’s been one of my favourite meals that I’ve eaten recently. And probably one of the easiest I’ve made. Maybe it’s because the sun was shining and it fits quite well?

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