Soy and ketchup chicken

One year ago, in one of our visits to my family I happened to taste the most delicious and moist chicken I've ever had in my life. I am not exaggerating! I like to cook chicken because you can always vary with the recipe, plus children love chicken. So this one was my sister's recipe, she prepared it for us the night we came from the airport because she thought it was light enough.(considering the fact we arrived late that night) It was a chicken with soy and ketchup , it was really delicious and we devoured that chicken right away. I still cook this chicken and my husband is amazed everytime I cook it like it was the first time he tasted it.
This is one of the recipes you should keep for those evenings when you come back from work, open the fridge and ask yourself desperately :" What the hell am I going to cook tonight?"

Happy cooking!

Soy and ketchup chicken

Ingredients
Two portions

500 gr chicken with bones (any pieces of your preferance we just love the thighs)
1 tbs ketchup
5 tbs soy sauce
1 tbs olive oil
1 tb honey
1 ts salt

Method

Wash the chicken pieces thoroughly then pat dry. In a high edged bowl,put together soy sauce, ketchup, honey , olive oil and salt and mix. Put chicken inside the sauce and rub it well with your hands. Let marinate for half an hour in the sauce making sure to turn pieces over from time to time. Put chicken pieces in a pan then pour all sauce on it. Cook in a preheated oven at 180°-200° for 40 minutes.

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!