Chicken with couscous, honey and cinnamon

Yield: 2 servings

Chicken with couscous, honey and cinnamon is an interesting alterative to chicken sandwich

Ingredients:

• 75 grams blanched almonds; I used almond flakes
• 2 tablespoons rapeseed or olive oil
• 1 onion, finely chopped 1 garlic clove, chopped
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
• 125 grams couscous
• 1 tablespoon runny honey
• About 250 m1 boiling water, or chicken or vegetable stock
• About 150 grams cold cooked chicken, cut into small pieces
• 1 small pickled lemon, pulp discarded and skin finely chopped, alternative: 1/2 fresh lemon, the grated zest
• A good squeeze of lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon chopped parsley or mint; I used both
• Sea salt and freshly ground black pepper

Instructions

1. Put the almonds in a dry frying pan and toast over a medium heat for a few minutes. tossing occasionally, until golden brown. Leave to cool. then chop them very roughly.
2. Heat the oil in a small saucepan, add the onion, garlic and some salt and pepper and sweat gently for about 10 minutes, until softened. Add the cinnamon, then take off the heat and stir in the couscous.
3. Stir the honey into the boiling water or stock until dissolved, then pour over the couscous (it should just cover it) and put a tight-fitting lid on the pan. Leave for 10 minutes, until the couscous has swollen up and absorbed all the liquid. Fluff it up with a fork, transfer to a bowl and leave to cool.
4. Toss the chicken pieces, almonds, pickled lemon or zest, and the lemon juice into the couscous and season to taste.
   Pack into a lunchbox, or pile into a serving dish for serving at the table. Either way, finish with a sprinkling of parsley or mint and a good grinding of black pepper.

total time: 30 minutes
preparation time: 5 minutes
cooking/baking time: 10 minutes