How To Make Chicken and Couscous Salad with Almonds
Sink your teeth into this healthy and filling couscous salad, packed with tender chicken, crunchy almonds, and currants, all tossed in a tangy lemon juice!
Serves:
Ingredients
- ¼cupextra virgin olive oil
- 1shallot
- ¾cupcouscous
- 1cupchicken stock,or canned low sodium broth
- 2tbspdried currants
- 1chicken,roasted
- ½cupflat leaf parsley leaves
- ¼cupalmonds,salted, roasted
- 3tbsplemon juice,fresh
- salt and freshly ground pepper
Instructions
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In a small saucepan, heat 1 tablespoon of the olive oil. Add the shallot and cook over high heat, for 1 to 2 minutes, until lightly browned.
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Stir in the couscous. Add the stock and currants and bring to a boil.
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Cover the saucepan, remove from the heat and let stand for 5 minutes.
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Fluff the couscous with a fork and transfer it to a large bowl. Add the chicken, parsley, almonds, lemon juice and the remaining 3 tablespoons of olive oil.
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Season with salt and pepper, toss well and serve. Enjoy!
Nutrition
- Calories: 991.66kcal
- Fat: 64.23g
- Saturated Fat: 15.40g
- Trans Fat: 0.29g
- Monounsaturated Fat: 31.80g
- Polyunsaturated Fat: 12.46g
- Carbohydrates: 37.11g
- Fiber: 4.14g
- Sugar: 5.89g
- Protein: 64.30g
- Cholesterol: 226.80mg
- Sodium: 1056.81mg
- Calcium: 93.62mg
- Potassium: 910.54mg
- Iron: 4.52mg
- Vitamin A: 155.72µg
- Vitamin C: 20.72mg
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