Cous Cous With Vegetables And Chicken Stew

There are many recipes and many variations of the famous Moroccan dish, cous cous.

Some people love to eat meat with it,some like it with poultry and others just

prefare it vagetarian with a vegetable stew. Possibilities are endless with this dish.

Whenever I want to cook a healthy meal that combines meat or chicken with vegetables, I

think of cous cous!

I always use my mother's recipe to cook cous cous, it is a no fail recipe for an

easy going dish that is extremely delicious and nutricious at the same time.

Cous cous with chicken and vegetables


1 medium onion

80 gr cooked chickpeas (from a can)

2 branches of celery

2 big carrots

2 medium zucchini or squash

1 half of a small cabbage

1 Tb spoon olive oil

2 small potatoes

2 cups chicken broth

4 pieces of chicken (of choice)

1 tb spoon turmeric

salt and pepper

For the cous cous:

2 cups fast cooking cous cous

1 Tb spoon chicken stock (in powder or a dice like knor)

1 Tb spoon olive oil

1 and a half cups boiling water.

For the chicken (optional)

2 Tb spoon lemon juice

1 Tb spoon salt

1 Tb spoon sugar

1 Tb spoon vinegar

4 slices of lemon

Wash chiken and put it in a bowl filled with water, 2 Tb spoon lemon juice , 1 Tb

spoon salt, 1 Tb spoon sugar and 1 Tb spoon vinegar.Add the chicken and the 4 slices

of lemon then leave it in for 10 minutes.This will remove the stinky smell of the

chicken and will add a wonderful flavour to it.Boil chicken on medium flame.

In the meanwhile,wash vegetables and cut onions, potatoes and zucchini into big

dices.Cut cabbage into peices then cut carrots and celery into circles.

Take two cups of the chicken broth and pour them into a medium pot, then add the

cut vegetables , add chicken pieces and cook on a medium flame for half an hour.

Add one teaspoon of turmeric , salt and pepper then continue to cook until carrots,

chicken and potatoes are done.Towards the end of cooking, add the chickpeas and let

them boil in for additional 5 min. Turn off the fire and cover pot.

Cous cous

In a medium bowl,put two cups of cous cous , add one Tablespoon chicken stock ,1

Tablespoon olive oil and one and a half cups boiling water.

Mix well and cover for 5 min . After 5 min, uncover bowl and start separating cous

cous lumps using a fork.

Put cous cous in a plate, add cous cous stew with vegetables and chicken to your

pleasure.

Makes 4 portions.

Enjoy!

Broccoli Pie

Broccoli is one of the foods that usually people don't know how to cook. Apart from serving boiled or as some kind of cold salad. As a kid I hated broccoli, my mother used to brain wash me about how healthy it was.But I always looked at broccoli as a useless veggie.Growing up and becoming a mother myself , I realized How Healthy this Veggie is.Trying to convince a two years old pre schooler to eat veggies ,I started to think of a new way to cook broccoli so my kid (and I) will eat it.So I discovered the broccoli pie.A friend of mine cooked it once and I was amazed of how good it really taseted.Franckly, when you add grated cheese, anything becomes tasty!
This Broccoli pie is better the day after you prepare it, so don't expect any leftovers!

Ingredients:
1 cup sour cream
150 grm Ricotta cheese
200 grm cottage cheese
2 eggs
150 grm Emmental grated cheese
2 teaspoons mushroom powder
4 Tablespoons milk
1 medium broccoli head
1 Tablespoon of vegitable oil
bread crumbs (for coating pan)

Wash broccoli ,remove stems and cut head into small little pieces.Boil in a pot with hot water for 10 min.
In a medium bowl, combine :sour cream, Ricotta cheese and cottage cheese.Add eggs,mushroom powder and milk.
Remove broccoli from fire and let cool for at least ten minutes.Put broccoli into the cheese mix then add grated Emmental cheese.
Mix well from bottom to top.
Brush a 20cm rectangle pan with one Table spoon of vegitable oil.Sprinkle bread crumbs on the base of pan and boarders.
Pour batter into pan and bake in a preheated oven for 40 min at 180c°.
Pie is ready when it's golden brown.
Makes 4 servings.

Enjoy!